Quotes by Ellen Lupton

About Ellen Lupton:

Ellen Lupton 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.
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Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

Ellen Lupton

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy’s habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity o...

Ellen Lupton

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse...

Ellen Lupton

Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the reada...

Ellen Lupton

Author Bio

  • NameEllen Lupton
  • DescriptionAmerican graphic designer
  • Born1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Graphic Designer