Join us Friday, October 25 at noon for a public lecture at the museum, “Welcome to Busytown: Or, What Ever Happened to Graphic Design?” by Ellen Lupton on the current state of graphic design. The lecture is $7 for the general public and free to museum members and students.
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator and graphic designer, as well as the director of the MFA program in graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Lupton also directs the Center for Design Thinking in Baltimore, and in 2007, she was awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ Gold Metal, one of the highest honors given to graphic designers and educators in the US. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a Smithsonian Institution museum located in New York City, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including “Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office,” “Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture,” “Letters from the Avant-Garde” and “Skin: Surface, Substance + Design.” Her book “Thinking with Type” is used by students, designers and educators worldwide.
In the lecture on Friday, you can hear Lupton examine today’s world of graphic design. While the general public’s access to design tools increases, more graphic designers are becoming authors and entrepreneurs. Lupton’s recent exhibitions include “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” currently on national tour.
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Lupton will also be presenting “How to Think Like a Designer,” at 4 pm, Thursday, October 24, in Room 130 of WCU’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee, sponsored by WCU’s School of Art and Design. This lecture will focus on the thought processes of designers, and will review products and media that contemporary designers are creating.
For more information about either presentation, contact Jon Jicha, professor of graphic design in WCU’s School of Art and Design, at 828-227-3597 or jjicha@wcu.edu, or contact us, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, at 828-350-8484 or bmcmac@bellsouth.net.
