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Ellen Lupton é designer gráfica, escritora e comissária de exposições. Os seus livros mais recentes são: D.I.Y: Design It Yourself (2006) e Thinking with Type (2004). Um dos livros mais vendidos é o Design, Writing, Research: Writing on Graphic Design"(Princeton Architectural Press, 1996) em que foi co-autora com J. Abbott Miller. É directora do programa de design gráfico MFA do Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) de Baltimore. É igualmente comissária de design contemporâneo no Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum em Nova Iorque, para o qual tem organizado numerosas exposições, todas ilustradas por um catálogo, incluindo as séries National Design Triennial (2000 e 2003), Feeding Design: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005 (2006), Solos: New Design from Israel (2006), Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002), Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), Mixing Messages (1996) and Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office. Livros em preparação: D.I.Y. Kids (com Júlia Lupton) e Graphic Design: Structure and Experiment (com Jennifer Cole Phillips e a Faculdade e alunos do MICA). A terceira edição do National Design Triennal, Design Life Now, abriu em Dezembro 2006.

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. Her most recent books are D.I.Y: Design It Yourself (2006) and Thinking with Type (2004). One of her best selling books is Design, Writing, Research: Writing on Graphic Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996) which she co-authored with J. Abbott Miller. She is director of the graphic design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. She also is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, each accompanied by a major publication, including the National Design Triennial series (2000 and 2003), Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005 (2006), Solos: New Design from Israel (2006), Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002), Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), Mixing Messages (1996), and Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office. Books in the works include D.I.Y. Kids (with Julia Lupton) and Graphic Design: Structure and Experiment (with Jennifer Cole Phillips and MICA students and faculty). The third National Design Triennial, Design Life Now, opened in December 2006.

Comissário_Andrew Howard, ESAD
Organização _ESAD 2007