For more than 20 years the Walker Art Center and American Institute of Graphic Arts/Minnesota have collaborated to bring leading design practitioners to the Twin Cities for the annual Insights Design Lecture Series. Since 2005, Insights lectures have been webcast and are available through the Walker Channel.

1986
Paul Prejza
Christopher Pullman
Peter Seitz
Jayme Odgers

1987
Muriel Cooper
Douglas Scott
Bill Stumpf
Steven Heller

1988
Lorraine Wild
Keith Goddard
Clement Mok
Dugald Stermer

1989
Tibor Kalman
Philip Larsen
Paula Scher
Stephen Frykholm

1990
Alexander Isley
Michael Bierut
Pat Gorman
Judy Olausen
Stormi Greener
Lynn Geesman

1991
Katherine McCoy
Joe Duffy
Rudy Vanderlans
Kit Hinrichs
Steven Heller

1992
John Jay
Chip Kidd
Jilly Simmons
Kent Hunter
Steven Doyle

1993
Fo Wilson
Massimo Vignelli
Judy Corcoran
Peter Goode & Patrick McCaughey

1994
Dana Arnett
Rick Poynor
Michael Bierut
Nancy Skolos

1995
Emily Oberman & Bonnie Siegler
Matthew Carter
Randall Rothenberg
John Plunkett & Barbara Kuhr

1996
Tucker Viemeister
Samina Qureashi
P. Scott Makela
Duane Michaels

1997
Alicia Johnson & Hal Wolverton
J.otto Seibold
J. Abbott Miller
Andrea Moed

1998
Lauralee Alben
James Victore
ReVerb
Piotr Szyhalski

1999
Why Not Associates
Susan Yelavich
Elliott Peter Earls (The Apollo Program)
Marlene McCarty (Bureau)

2000
Mikon van Gastel (Imaginary Forces)
Cornel Windlin
Aura Oslapas (IDEO)
Gael Towey (Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia)

2001
John Maeda
Wolfgang Weingart
Jennifer Sterling
Geoff McFetridge (Champion Graphics)
Denise Gonzales Crisp

2002
Janet Abrams (Design Institute, UMN)
Lisa Strausfeld (Pentagram)
Jonathan Hoefler & Tobias Frere-Jones
Michael Rock (2x4)

2003
Jessica Helfand & William Drenttel (Winterhouse)
Rick Valicenti (Thirst & Thirstype)
Thomas Widdershoven (Thonik)
Charles S. Anderson & Laurie DeMartino

2004
Paula Scher (Pentagram)
Michael Byzewski & Dan Ibarra (Aesthetic Apparatus)
Scott Stowell (open)
Thomas Castro, Jeroen Barendse, & Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen (LUST)
Andrew Stevens (Graphic Thought Facility)

2005
Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger (Antenna Design)
Maureen Mooren and Daniel van der Velden (Maureen Mooren and Daniel van der Velden Design)
Paul Sahre (The Office of Paul Sahre)
John Christakos and Maurice Blanks (Blu Dot Design)

2006
Bill Grant (Grant Design Collaborative)
Richard Boynton & Scott Thares (Wink)
Armand Mevis & Linda van Deursen (Mevis Van Duersen)
Chip Kidd

2007
Daniel Eatock
Stuart Bailey, Michael Bierut, Debbie Millman
Lorraine Wild
Jop van Bennekom

2008
Marian Bantjes
Alejandro Quinto & Lorraine Gauthier (Work Worth Doing)
Prem Krishnamurthy & Adam Michaels (Project Projects)
Ed Fella

2009
Eric Olson and Nicole Dotin (Process Type Foundry)
David Reinfurt (O-R-G and Dexter and Sinister)
Marieke Stolk and Danny van den Dungen (Experimental Jetset)
Ellen Lupton

First post. http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2007/10/21/test/ Walker blogs, Design: Bulletin Board

First post. http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2007/10/21/post/ Walker blogs, Design: Bulletin Board

First post. http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2007/10/21/first-post/ Walker blogs, Design: Bulletin Board

Insights lectures online http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/05/02/insights-lectures-online/ Walker blogs, Design: Bulletin Board