Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. She has written numerous books about graphic design, including  Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, and  Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she proudly serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions included  Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master  and  The Senses: Design Beyond Vision. Lupton loves reading, writing, teaching, and learning new things about design.