Ellen Lupton
| Ellen Lupton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ellen Lupton Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cooper Union, Art |
| Known for | Writer, Curator, Educator, and Graphic designer |
Ellen Lupton (born 1963) is 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 Art (MICA) in Baltimore.
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1963, Lupton started out as an art major at Cooper Union College. During the 1980s, design, in particular digital design, wasn't as popular as it is today. To Lupton, the visual art of writing was an inspiration to a self-professed art girl who came from a family of English teachers. When Lupton graduated from college, she was offered a position at the Cooper Union Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, which preserves design history. By accepting this position, she was able to take her love of typography, writing, and design and combine them all together. While working at the Herb Lubalin Study Center, Lupton was also able to put her creations on display for the public to see. These exhibitions provided another arena in which objects, images and text functioned as both the method of communication and the subject of inquiry
In 1997, Lupton was invited to become the digital design director of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Lupton enjoyed being back in her hometown of Baltimore. Here, Lupton was able to become a do it yourself curator and build a reputation within the writing field. With this experience, Lupton was able to further her knowledge in exhibitions. Each exhibition that she has worked on has been accompanied by a sturdy and ambitious public interest.
Lupton also began writing many hands on books about the design world. In 1996, Lupton co-wrote a book with the Cooper- Hewitt Museum entitled Mixed Message: graphic design in contemporary culture. This book focused on the revolutionary changes that graphic design went through in the early 1980s to the late 1990s. It also spoke about how the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in particular was able to focus on the changes and accept them within the design world. Lupton also went on to write
and many more books regarding design. Lupton has described typefaces as "the air we breathe, the water we drink and the pot we smoke."
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