Ellen Lupton

Recent articles by Ellen Lupton

Pages from the library of libraries

Issue 84, Autumn 2012

Review

Graphic design, devoted as it is to re-framing text and image, thrives as an…

Glimmering weapons

Issue 61, Autumn 2006

Review

Beautiful World is a video project by Mieke Gerritzen, a Dutch graphic designer who…

Right and wrong ways to borrow

Issue 10, Autumn 1993

Review

Borrowed Design analyses the field of graphic design as a history of credits and…

The academy of deconstructed design

Issue 3, Spring 1991

Feature

Students and graduates of Cranbrook Academy of Art are producing some of the world’s most…

High and low (a strange case of us and them?)

Issue 7, Summer 1992

Feature

Designers take a superior view of vernacular typography. Is it time to come down from on high?

Cranbrook in close-up

Issue 3, Spring 1991

Feature

Projects by David Frej, Katherine McCoy, Edward Fella and Allen Hori

Words made flesh

Issue 18, Autumn 1995

Feature

Johanna Drucker pursues a double life as a historian of letterforms and a maker of artist’s books.…

First Things First Manifesto 2000

Issue 33, Autumn 1999

Feature

Thirty-three visual communicators renew the 1964 call for a change of priorities

Underground matriarchy

Issue 14, Autumn 1994

Feature

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

Feature

‘Diversity and inclusiveness are our only hope. It is not possible to plaster everything over with…