It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people. — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product. — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design. — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy. — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism,… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image