Writer, educator, designer, and curator

Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair, Maryland Institute College of Art Curator Emerita, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

BIOGRAPHY

Ellen Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA). She has authored and co-authored numerous books on design processes, including Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. In the works: the third edition of Thinking with Type. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where she organized numerous exhibitions, including Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master, Face Values: Understanding Artificial Intelligence, The Senses: Design Beyond Vision, and Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics. She is an AIGA Gold Medalist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Designing while Human

How can we open up design practice to include overlooked people and practices? Ellen Lupton will share hidden stories about typography, from printer’s widows to widow printers. Her recent books Extra Bold: Um Guia Feminista, Inclusivo, Antirracista, Não Binário para Designers and Pensar Com Tipos, 3rd Edition, are published by Olhares. Revising Pensar Com Tipos required questioning everything. What assumptions are baked into our design vocabulary? How can type education become more forgiving? Where are the women and designers of color? What stories lurk behind basic forms such as capital letters and reverse stress? Open your mind to a changing discourse.