Grid Systems Type Spa
with
Ellen Lupton
Brush up on the basics| Practice creating structured and expressive layouts, crafting elegant details, and honing your storytelling skills while designing a typographic poster. Use grids to organize content, build hierarchy, and generate emotionally resonant visual elements. During this all-day session, each participant will follow along with peers and faculty in a step-by-step process. The workshop is designed to bring new focus to each participant’s individual approach to typographic thinking and decision-making. Participants receive active feedback throughout the day in a unique online setting that maximizes hands-on engagement.
About Ellen Lupton
Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. Her books include Design Is Storytelling, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. The third edition of her bestselling book Thinking with Type launches in March 2024. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions included Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.