Ellen Lupton (chair) is a designer, writer, curator, and educator. She is the author of numerous books on design, including Thinking with Type, D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself, and Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips). She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, where her exhibitions have included “Skin: Surface, Substance + Design,” “Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture,” and the National Design Triennial series.