Founded by Creative Director Mitch Paone and Managing Partner Meg Donohoe, DIA Studio has been instrumental in repositioning typography and motion at the center of brand design in recent years. As smartphones and screens of all kinds reorganize viewership and the ways brands engage with customers, DIA Studio has collaborated with Squarespace, Nike, Adidas, and YouTube to create bespoke, moving typographic compositions from app to architectural scale. Trained as a jazz pianist, Paone brings a musician’s knowledge of tempo, arrangement, and rhythm to the creation of design systems that have invited the field to rethink the possibilities of formerly static approaches.

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Expand your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting leading designers and design thinkers from around the world. Exploring the theme of collaboration through a variety of perspectives and approaches, this year’s Insights pairs four in-person lectures with expanded programs that range from virtual workshops to articles, special projects, and more.

This year’s in-person lineup features innovators in type and motion Dia Studio, Brooklyn Public Library Creative Director Leila Taylor, long-term collaborators Studio Lin, as well as the Twin Cities Zine Fest, whose members have championed sustainable self-publishing and the DIY ethic in our local community for 20 years.

Expanded programming includes workshops from the Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles’s Co—Conspirator Press, Chicago’s Half Letter Press/Temporary Services, as well as a series of original redesigns of objects guest edited by David Gissen, author of The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access.

Copresented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota.

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