The Walker is in Minneapolis, but much of its audience isn’t. When I joined in 2010, we redesigned the website around that fact. The site needed to be a place to spend time with the Walker’s work from somewhere else.

That meant treating it as a publishing platform. The blogs came out of hiding. An editor was hired to produce features and ongoing editorial series, and to gather art and sociopolitical news. Material was indexed and linked across the site so that older things had a chance of being found again.

We designed the homepage much as we would a newspaper or journal, with close attention to typography and a flexible grid. The first sketch was nytimes.com with the Walker logo on top. Modular interactive components could be used throughout the site, while special projects could have their own microsites and layouts. The grid was useful. So was being able to leave it.

I spent five years at the Walker, working on digital projects and the occasional not-so-digital one. This is a selection of that work.