Excerpts from Design Your Life
Design Your Life, by Ellen and Julia Lupton, is published by St Martins Press (May 2009). The book is a series of irreverent snapshots about design and everyday life. ...read more…  Writing Course at MICA
This course is taught by Ellen Lupton for graphic design MFA students at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art). Offered in Spring 2009, this graduate-level writing course challenges GD MFA students to consciously study writing as a craft. We will engage in a variety of short-form and long-form exercises to gain control of voice, style, structure, and narrative as well as appropriate uses of research and documentation. What we will not be doing is writing for “school.” We will produce all work with publication in mind, whether for your own blog, an edited forum, or a printed book or magazine. Writing “term papers” is a pointless endeavor that you should have mastered as an undergrad. This course embraces writing as a life skill that will serve you in your professional, intellectual, and public life. Manifestos on AIGA Voice
My sister Julia and I have a piece on AIGA Voice, Manifesto Mania. Check it out and share your own manifesto. Wine Boxes
In this interview with Katie Rolnick on NPR’s Studio 360, Ellen Lupton suggests that boxed wine deserves a second look. Produced by Katie Rolnick. Sexy Librarian
I just published my first novel! (No, I didn’t write it, I published it.) Sexy Librarian is written by Julia Weist, an artist, writer, and librarian. I met her last year at an exhibition at Cooper Union, where she displayed a series of rejection letters for a novel she was writing ...read more… GD MFA Program at MICA
The Graphic Design MFA program at MICA is a two-year program for advanced design students leading to a terminal degree. Visit micadesign.org to see what’s going on in the program. Spring 2008 semester is underway. Ellen Lupton, director; Jennifer Cole Phillips, associate director. Ellen and Abbott's House on Design Sponge
Our Bolton Hill house is featured on Grace Bonney’s Design Sponge, my favorite trend-spotting design blog. Typography I, Fall 2007
2008 Word Book calendar, produced by Ellen’s Typography I class, Participate: Designing with Materials
Participate in our new book! Publish your work and your students’ work! Contribute to the design discourse! Product designer Inna Alesina and design writer Ellen Lupton are producing a new book, Designing with Materials, aimed at college-level design students and working professionals. ...read more… Recent Books
Ellen Lupton interactive logo designed by Peter Cho, 2007.
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