ELLEN LUPTON SPEAKING ON “THE DESIGNER AS AUTHOR”

Thursday, May 27, 2010

What does it mean when designers become authors? Are we enemy combatants, graphic collaborators, or content producers?

In the 1990s, graphic designers asserted their role as authors even as the idea of authorship had been denigrated and dismissed by leading philosophers and critics. Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and curator who has written, edited, and co-authored over a dozen books. Lupton will talk about the paradigms of authorship in relation to her own work.

Along the way, you’ll learn about crimes against typography, the D.I.Y. revolution, how to publish your own book, how to make your bed, and how to buy a bra.

Mutual of Omaha
Dome + Theater
3300 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE, 68175

Parking is available in the lots on the west side of the Mutual of Omaha building, but prohibited on the front drive of the building.
There is also limited street parking available.

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5:45 p.m.  Registered guests start arriving early to allow time to get through security
6:00 p.m.  Reception (appetizers & drinks)
6:30 p.m.  Ellen speaks

Registration is closed!

Thanks to everyone who pre-registered. We'll see you on Thursday, May 27!

Book Discussion & Breakfast with Ellen Lupton

Friday, May 28, 2010

“Design, Life, and Work: How Do You Put it All Together?”

Enjoy an intimate breakfast and book discussion with Ellen Lupton. The conversation will center around Design Your Life, co-authored by Ellen and Julia Lupton.

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Space is limited to 9 registrants!

ABOUT ELLEN LUPTON

ELLEN LUPTON is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA). She has produced numerous books and exhibitions, including The Kitchen, the Bathroom, and the Aesthetics of Waste (1992), Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002). Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. She has produced a series of books with her graduate students at MICA, including D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), Indie Publishing (2008), and Graphic Design: The New Basics. Ellen has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen.

Photo of Ellen Lupton by Michelle Quereshi

CREDITS

Event Co-Chairs

Craig Hughes, Director of Membership: promo materials design, calm & rational thinking

Jim Wolf, Director of Finance: logistics, obsessive number crunching

NOW Sponsors

AIGA Nebraksa would like to give special thanks to the following sponsors, without whom this event would not be possible: