Ellen Lupton: D. I. Y. Design It Yourself

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. Her artist series lecture on September 2006 at the University of Arizona accompanied an exhibition that she curated of works collected by Maryland Institute College of Art faculty and graduate students at the UA's Museum of Art Gallery.

Ellen Lupton says: "Design is art people use." "D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself" was an exhibition that demonstrated the belief that the creation and publication of one's own design is the practice of a free society. The work in the show encouraged us to try our own hand at design by celebrating simple technologies and de-mystifying those that are seemingly more complex. By learning to "think like a designer," the exhibition asserted, we also learn to heighten our awareness of the media by which we are constantly surrounded, allowing us to clarify, realize, and ultimately claim authorship of our ideas.

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