Ellen Lupton :: Mixing Messages

reposted from www.orlando.aiga.org:

No Job Too Small: A Designer’s View of the World Ellen Lupton vents her rage about dumb quotes, bad kerning, free fonts, over-priced toasters, over-stuffed pillows, ill-fitting bras, adult orthodontia, and more, much more. Lupton is a curator, writer, designer, teacher, and world-class complainer who is obsessed with uncovering the design problems all around us. Today, anyone can be a designer—or a publisher, pundit, rock star, or filmmaker. Does that mean we’re heading for a more vibrant and interesting world, or one where high quality and good taste are destined for a global meltdown?

ELLEN LUPTON is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at MICA in Baltimore. Her most recent book is Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things, co-authored with Julia Lupton. Her exhibitions include the National Design Triennial series and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. She has produced a series of publications with her graduate students at MICA, including D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), Indie Publishing (2008), and Graphic Design: The New Basics (2008). Ellen has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen.

When: Thursday, November 11, 2010
Where: TBA (click here for an update on the location)