# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellen-lupton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:47:32.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellen-lupton"
name: "Ellen Lupton"
slug: "ellen-lupton"
description: "Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, curator, writer, critic, and educator. Known for her love of typography, Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and was named Curator Emerita after 30 years of service. She is the founding director of the Graphic Design M.F.A. degree program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. She has written numerous books on graphic design for a variety of audiences. She has contributed to several publications, including Print, Eye, I.D., Metropolis, and The New York Times."
tagline: "American graphic designer (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellen_Lupton_at_MICA_Thesis_Exhibition_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "ellenlupton"
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    handle:    "ellenlupton"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "ellen.lupton"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Ellen Lupton"
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    title: "الين لوپتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellen Lupton"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Lupton"
    title: "Ellen Lupton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump