Designer Ellen Lupton to speak Oct. 21

5:15 p.m., Oct. 17, 2003--Noted graphic designer and writer Ellen Lupton will discuss “Inside Design Now, National Design Triennial,” an exhibition is currently on display at the Copper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 21, in 006 Kirkbride Lecture Hall.

The free public talk is sponsored by UD’s Visual Communications Group.

The National Design Triennial was inaugurated by the Cooper-Hewitt to study and celebrate contemporary design in the United States. Interdisciplinary in nature, the triennial reviews cutting-edge trends and future horizons across the fields of design practice, from architecture, interiors, and landscape design to product design, graphic design, fashion, film and new media.

The current exhibition presents the work of 80 emerging and established designers and firms operating at the most innovative and provocative level in design today. Lupton and the other exhibit curators Donald Albrecht, Mitchell Owens and Susan Yelavich have created an exhibition and book the reflect the energy and diversity of design today in the United States.

Lupton is the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's curator for contemporary design. She has produced numerous exhibitions and publications, including “Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office,” the “2000 National Design Triennial: Design Culture Now” and “Skin: Surface, Substance and Design.” She chairs the graphic design programs at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

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