DesignWritingResearch.org/Ellen Lupton
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Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the MFA program in graphic design 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), 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.
She met Abbott Miller as a student at The Cooper Union, where they graduated in 1985. They have two kids, Jay and Ruby.
MICA: micadesign.org
National Design Museum: ndm/si.edu/
e-mail Ellen: elupton@designwritingresearch.org