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...
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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.
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The original Two-Bottle Tote is an interesting product, so functionally specific and worthy of a trademark.
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Typography is what language looks like.
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Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
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Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.
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Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.
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Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.