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Andrew Blauvelt is Design Director and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he has provided creative direction since 1998. He has received more than 100 design awards for the award-winning in-house Walker studio. Blauvelt has been profiled in such magazines as I.D., Idea, Eye, Surface, Print, and Metropolis, and has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, and the Design Museum, London, among others. His work has been more recently featured in the publications Area (Phaidon), c/id: Cultural Identity (Laurence King) and Fully Booked (Gestalten).
Blauvelt has organized such Walker exhibitions as Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life (2003), Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses (2005), and Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes (2007). As a commentator and critic of design and culture, his essays have appeared in numerous journals and publications such as Eye, Emigré, Visible Language and the anthologies Critical Writings on Graphic Design and The Education of a Graphic Designer (Allworth Press). Blauvelt has been a visiting professor in the graduate design programs of the Jan van Eyck Akademie (The Netherlands), Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Graphic Design Department at the College of Design, North Carolina State University, and interim-head of the 2D Design program at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He received his MFA in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BFA in Visual Communication from the Herron School of Art of Indiana University.