Speaker Series: Ellen Lupton
Jepson Hall Auditorium, Room 118
Richmond, Virginia
Ellen Lupton's Design Tantrum
Design is everywhere, for better or for worse. Designer, writer, and curator Ellen Lupton will rant about what's wrong with dumb quotes, roller bags, toasters, over-furnished hotel rooms, ill-fitting bras, and more, much more.
Registration will begin at 5:30
Ellen will begin promptly at 6
Reception will follow
light hors'doerves and refreshments will be served
Cost:
Members: Free
Non-members: $6.00 in advance*, $10 at the door
*online registration ends 24 hours prior to the event
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Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002).
She recently has focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), co-authored with her graduate students at MICA, explains design processes to a general audience. Her newest project, D.I.Y. Kids (October 2007), co-authored with Julia Lupton, is a design book for children illustrated with kids’ art. “It’s never too early,” they explain, “to talk to your child about design.”
Books in the works include Design Your Life (with Julia Lupton) and Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips). She is the co-author with Abbott Miller of several books, including The Bathroom, the Bathroom, and the Aesthetics of Waste (1992), Design Writing Research (1996), and Swarm (2006).
Lupton is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal, one of the highest honors given to a graphic designer or design educator in the U.S.
Ellen Lupton has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. Her editorial illustrations have been published in The New York Times. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen.
Other exhibitions she has curated and co-curated include the National Design Triennial series (2000, 2003, 2006), Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005 (2006), Solos: New Design from Israel (2006), and Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), all at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
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Comments (10)
Ellen was a huge success! With over 80 in attendance, Ellen delivered an insightful and entertaining precentation
Her perspective on dumb quotes, typography, pillows and suitcases brought laughter and inspired inquisitive thought.
She signed posters and books afterwards and then mingled with attendees at the receptions, answering questions and discussing her philosophy on design.
Ellen was a delight and we were so happy to have her.
Posted by: Kim Spencer on March 29, 2008
This was a great event. Ellen was a hoot and provided a fresh perspective on DYI among other subjects — like pillows.
Posted by: Edith Ridderhof on March 25, 2008
Wow! I knew she would talk about design, but I just didn't expect to laugh until I cried. I must admit, the day before, I downloaded a "free" font. I felt incredibly guilty (no, it wasn't Abscissa!). For more information on crimes against type, alternative uses of BILLY bookcases, and applying design thinking to your everyday life, check out Julia and Ellen Lupton's blog at http://www.design-your-life.org/
Posted by: David McIntosh on February 22, 2008
Can I tell you how excited I am about this? Oh ... I guess I just did.
Posted by: Michael Harl on February 20, 2008
Woo-hoo! T-minus 8 days and counting!
Posted by: Holly Rodriguez on February 13, 2008
Ok David, how about the web address so the rest of the world can have a look?
A-ha!! Found it!
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/01/sneak-peek-ellen-lupton-and-abbott-miller.html" target="_blank">Design*Sponge Sneak Peek
Posted by: Kim Spencer on February 4, 2008
Got some home inspiration from taking a "Sneak Peak" at Ellen's home on Design Sponge. Having personality doesn't mean a knick-knack explosion, but it does mean displaying personal mementos with care, grace, and style. Thanks for the super find, Lauren!
Posted by: David McIntosh on February 4, 2008
Well, some of us have too much to handle for Victoria. Damn her. But yay, Ellen! Talk about a shining, much-needed gem in the world of design to cut through fog and spread the love of design. You go girl. Design pet peeve (from a non-designer): designer imposters who pretend to be real designers, and then when you point out basic, fundamental principles of design, they growl at you as if you should have never questioned them. And I'm not even a designer. So if I'm pointing out basic design principles to you, we've got a problem. These people need to be dealt with. Period. No negotiation. Godfather-style.
Posted by: Holly Rodriguez on January 29, 2008
I recently discovered that I've been wearing the wrong bra size for about 20 years.
I just thought Victoria's Secret only catered to big boobed women and I just didn't fit in. But now I know. I'm sorry Victoria for cursing you all these years. Although, that darn wire that stabbed me deserved what it got!
Posted by: Kim Spencer on January 29, 2008
Not everyone is familiar with the brilliance that is Ellen Lupton. AIGA RIchmond is excited and proud to have her as the first speaker in our series this year. But to do it justice and to honor her "Design Tantrum," I strongly encourage everyone to please voice their design frustrations so that we may all cringe together.
Designers united.
Posted by: Kim Spencer on January 29, 2008
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