Ellen Lupton
Recent articles by Ellen Lupton
Pages from the library of libraries
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Graphic design, devoted as it is to re-framing text and image, thrives as an object…
Right and wrong ways to borrow
Issue 10, Autumn 1993
Borrowed Design analyses the field of graphic design as a history of credits and debits…
The academy of deconstructed design
Issue 3, Spring 1991
Students and graduates of Cranbrook Academy of Art are producing some of the world’s most challenging graphic design.
High and low (a strange case of us and them?)
Issue 7, Summer 1992
Designers take a superior view of vernacular typography. Is it time to come down from on high?
Words made flesh
Issue 18, Autumn 1995
Johanna Drucker pursues a double life as a historian of letterforms and a maker of artist’s books.
Cranbrook in close-up
Issue 3, Spring 1991
Projects by David Frej, Katherine McCoy, Edward Fella and Allen Hori
First Things First Manifesto 2000
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Thirty-three visual communicators renew the 1964 call for a change of priorities
Underground matriarchy
Issue 14, Autumn 1994
Women who have shaped the profession by their own work and by enabling those around them
Reputations: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Issue 8, Autumn 1993
‘Diversity and inclusiveness are our only hope. It is not possible to plaster everything over with clean elegance. Dirty architecture, fuzzy theory and dirty design must also be out there.’