About

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer. Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore. She serves as a senior curator at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. She says “Writing is a secret weapon for designers, and design is a secret weapon for writers.

Ellen Lupton shares her own experience as a writer who designs and a designer who writes, and she talks about the miraculous interplay between text and typography that has fueled revolutionary thought across the ages.