Ep 60: Designing Creative Responses to Epidemics | Ellen Lupton

How do diseases shape design? What does a low cost prototype look like? Where can you view the face masks that Naomi Osaka wore during the U.S. Open? Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Her exhibitions include “Design & Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics,” “Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master,” “Face Values: Understanding Artificial Intelligence,” and “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.” Her exhibition “Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” will be open December 2022–February 2023 at Cooper Hewitt. She teaches at MICA in Baltimore, where she has authored many books, including "Thinking with Type," "Graphic Design Thinking," and "Graphic Design: The New Basics." She is an AIGA Gold Medalist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.