Last night at Hallmark was a speaker, Emmet Byrne. I came in a few minutes late, but I gathered that he does a lot of design work for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota which features contemporary visual and performing arts exhibits and programs. He showed a lot of interesting projects that many people at the art center had contributed with, as well as to show us the style of their design as a whole. I really liked him. And wanted to be his friend. He seemed really genuine and not so hoity toity about his own work. He used a lot of hidden/deeper meaning concepts in his pieces which i have a lot of respect for. The main project he talked about was a book he designed for Kara Walker. I had never heard of her before, but apparently she's stirred up a lot of drama in the african american artist community. Her writing is extremely graphic and vulgar, and Emmit decided to put one of these bold statements as the cover of the book to survey Walker's work. The US actually required him to design a belly band to cover the "bad words".
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