First designer Quote

"Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking"

Ellen Lupton

graphic designer

editor

writer

curator

educator

• Studied design and art in early 1980’s at ‘The Cooper Union’ in New York City.
• Curated a small design gallery inside the school for 7 years, also published a lot, built a reputation as a writer and critic.
• In 1992 offered a job at ‘Cooper-Hewitt’ National Design Museum in New York City, enjoyed creating larger exhibitions with catalogues and public programming.
• Since 1997 has been the director of the Master of Fine Art program in Graphic Design at Maryland Institute College of Art, as well as still being part-time curator for Cooper–Hewitt.
• In 2009 offering a graduate level writing course to challenge her design students to study writing as a craft, believing that it is important for graphic designers to learn about expression through words and wit.

Ellen Lupton has produced many exhibitions and books, including:

• Mechanical Brides – 1993
• Mixing Messages – 1996
• Letters from the Avant-Garde – 1996
• Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age – 1999
• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial – 2000, 2003, 2006
• Skin: surface, Substance + Design – 2002
• Thinking with Type – 2004
• D.I.Y.: Design it Yourself – 2006
• D.I.Y. Kids – 2007
  

Books she is currently working on include:

• Design Your Life (with Julia Lupton, her twin sister)
• Graphic Design: the New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips and MICA students and faculty.

  

Books co-authored with her husband J Abbott Miller include:

• The Bathroom, The Bathroom, and the Aesthetics of Waste - 1992
• Design, Writing, Research – 1996
• Swarm – 2006

Ellen Lupton received the AIGA Gold Medal in 2007.

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