Graphic Design: The New Basics

Ellen Lupton is the author, coauthor, or editor of 13 books with PAPress, including Design Culture Now; Skin: Surface, Substance + Design; Inside Design Now; Thinking with Type; D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself; and D.I.Y. Kids. She is Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York and Director, Graphic Design MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. she is hte recipient of numerous awards including I.D. Forty, 1992; Chrysler Design Award, 1996; and AIGA Gold Medal, 2007. Jennifer Phillips is Principal of J. Cole Phillips Design--a design studio specializing in visual identity and branding, as well as packaging, environmental and new media design for the arts, education, and corporations. She is Associate Director of the Graphic Design MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She was an Advisory Board Member, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Baltimore Chapter, 2001-2007 and has received awards from Graphic Design USA, The Art Directors' Clubs of New York and Metropolitan Washington, and AIGA 50.