Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. She serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.

Ellen joins Sevy to celebrate the third edition of her classic guide to typography: Thinking with Type (Princeton Architectural Press, 2024). They discuss the 21st century evolution of communication design, why it’s important to study writing systems you may never even use, and how Ellen’s unusual upbringing set her on the multidisciplinary path she still walks today.

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