Ellen Lupton
Ellen Lupton
Ellen Luptonis a graphic designer, writer, curator, and educator. Well known for her fascination and study within typography, Lupton decided to expand her love for design and took on the graphic design world. Lupton is the curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and is the director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Artin Baltimore...
people design get-better
It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
hipster looks language
Typography is what language looks like.
art people design
Design is art that people use,
thinking design
Think more design less
media use language
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.
attitude certainly dishes gonna rather stuff throw
It certainly is an attitude about disposability. If you're gonna have a party, you don't want to do dishes. I'd rather do the dishes than throw so much stuff away.
book reading offering
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.