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Andrew Blauvelt
Andrew Blauvelt is Design Director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, whose work has been widely recognized by the American Center for Design, American Institute of Graphic Arts, I.D. , Eye, and Metropolis magazines. The Design Studio was recently nominated for the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation. Andrew is currently curating a contemporary design exhibition for the Walker entitled Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life that opens in 2003.
A writer and critic of contemporary design, his articles have appeared in Emigré, Eye, Design Issues, Graphis, Design Book Review, AIGA Journal, ACD Statements, and Zed. He guest-edited the three-part series "New Perspectives: Critical Histories of Graphic Design" for the journal Visible Language, issue 40 of Emigré magazine, "The Info-Perplex," and "Remaking History," an issue of the American Center for Design Journal documenting a conference of the same title.
An educator for more than 13 years, he has been a visiting professor in the graduate programs of the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota; and the University of the Americas, Peubla, Mexico. He was Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the School of Design, North Carolina State University, where he helped developed the graduate program and later served as department head.
Andrew was named Educator of the Year by the Graphic Design Education Association in 1995.
He holds an MFA in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art (1988) and a BFA from the Herron School of Art of Indiana University with dual studies in graphic design and photography (1986).