What drew me to Ellen Lupton is the number of books on Amazon.com which she had published and the reviews are overall positive. She’s a author and editor of 13 books, several of which are about design and type. She is explains her work in these books and how to apply content/type to your own work. This is why I chose her, she makes interesting and exciting work but she knows why her work is desired and she has written books about just that. My work does not compare to hers, she combines so many elements from all media types. You’ll see much vector work in one book but then the next one looks like it’s filled with hand drawn images and snapart. She uses photographs within her work and vice versa to create unique images which I am very interested in as a way of ‘saving’ my poor images from being deleted.
That’s how you make a bad photo good, make it artistic!
One book of hers that I’d like to look more into is Graphic Design: ‘The New Basics’ which is filled with her and others works. This book is so divers that every page as different styled images to it but stays within the same subject. These are interesting works as is but in a book form with explanations as to their creation and use makes this especially valuable.
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