Ellen Lupton, recipient of the 2007 AIGA Lifetime Achievement Award, will give a talk on how design tells stories that can touch the public in emotionally fulfilling ways.

Ellen Lupton is a Baltimore-based graphic designer, curator, educator and author of numerous books. The title of her illustrated talk at Linfield College is “Design is Storytelling.” “Designers can employ ideas about narrative, behavior, perception, and humor to amaze, delight, and orient the eye and mind,” Lupton says. “Designers in today’s cross-disciplinary, multimedia world create objects, images and brands that activate all the senses.” Her presentation draws on her ongoing research on design, storytelling and sensory experience.