Ellen Lupton famous quotes

03-26-2025

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Media #Use #Language
Design is art that people use,
-- Ellen Lupton

#Art #People #Design
Think more design less
-- Ellen Lupton

#Thinking #Design
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

#People #Design #Get Better
Typography is what language looks like.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Hipster #Looks #Language
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Design #Spacing
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Discipline #Design #Community
Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Hard Times #Differences #Letters
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Art #Interesting #Design
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
-- Ellen Lupton

#Civilization #Humanity #Fonts
Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Voice #Space #Diversity
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 is great when youâ€™re in your 30s. If youâ€™re in your 20s and already talking about that, I donâ€™t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Powerful #Thinking #Impact
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

#Design #Identity #Pages
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Fun #Design #Challenges
Designers provide ways intoâ€”and out ofâ€”the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of designâ€™s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
-- Ellen Lupton

#Book #Reading #Offering

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