Andrew Blauvelt is Design Director and Curator at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Since 1998 he has provided creative direction for the Walker’s innovative graphic identity across various media platforms, oversees its publications program and design studio, and curates design-related exhibitions and programs.

The Walker’s design work is the recipient for more than 80 design awards, including numerous selections for the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers competition and has been profiled in such magazines as I.D, Eye, Print, and Metropolis.

The recipient of many honors, the studio has been nominated for the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and the National Design Awards in Communication.

His work has been exhibited and published extensively, most recently in Area (Phaidon), a survey of 100 international graphic designers, and c/id: Cultural Identity (Laurence King).

As a curator of architecture and design projects at the Walker he has organized exhibitions such as Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life (2003), an international Survey of avant-garde architecture and design whose roots lie in the exploration of commonplace materials and daily routines and rituals; and some Assembly Required: Comtemporary Prefabricated Houses (2005), featuring eight modern modular designs in actual production. He is currently developing a multidisciplinary exhibition about the contemporary American suburb (2008) organized by the Walker Art Center and the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

As a writer and critic of design and culture, his articles have appeared in numerous journals and publications. Blauvelt has been a visiting professor in the graduate design programs of the Jan Van Eyck Akademie (The Netherlands) and at Cranbrook Academy of Art (USA), where he received his MFA in Design (1998). He was Associate Professor of Graphic Design, and served as director of graduate studies and department chair at the College of design, North Carolina State University, from 1991–1998.

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