Ellen Lupton @ BU TONIGHT!

Tonight at 6:30pm, author of the 'monster' bestseller known as Thinking with Type, Ellen Lupton, will be lecturing at Boston University's Jacob Sleeper Auditorium! This is defiantly an amazing opportunity to network with someone who's a 'rockstar' in the typography industry! I highly encourage everyone in Publication Design to check it out, and admission is $10 for students so don't forget your ID!

For those who don't know Ellen Lupton (although I'm sure many from NEiA do because most of you were likely assigned with her type book in your typography courses!), Lupton is an American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Gold Medal winner in 2007! Aside from being an author who primarily writes about design, Lupton is also the curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York as well as the director of the Graphic Design program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.

Below I posted this inspiring lecture from 2009, where she lectures how designers are playing a major role in publication as authors! I think it's very relevant to the subjects we'll be learning and discussing throughout class as we'll be playing the role as 'both' for our final project! 

 

After watching the lecture, be sure to take a visit to the NEiA Library (located near the Brookline Village Station where there are outdoor tables) to see if you can get your hands on 'several' of Ellen's books! They're fun to read and are very inspiring!

For more information on tonight's event, go to
boston.aiga.org/event/futurehistory-lecture-designer-as-curator-with-ellen-lupton-jiminie-ha/

You can also purchase tickets for the events through the Eventbrite app for iOS & Android!

Event info:

FUTURE/HISTORY: Designer as Curator with Ellen Lupton + Jiminie Ha
6:30PM-9PM

Directions info:

BU College of General Studies
871 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
Transportation: Green Line, “B” train, BU West stop
Facilities: Jacob Sleeper Auditorium (lower level, Room 129)

 

If anyone's interested in going to the event, message me through mattcobrin@gmail.com! 

I know the video is worth an hour, but you can get something out of it! Tell me what you think!

 

- Matthew Cobrin