Type Family

Ellen Lupton will be joined by Doug Thomas, Sandra Maxa, and Mark Sanders to share the best ideas and weirdest insights from their latest books. Discover how storytelling makes the stuff around us more engaging. Geek out about the world’s most influential typeface — and it’s not Helvetica! Sample the secret sauce of communication for page and screen.

  • Ellen Lupton, director, MFA Graphic Design: Design Is Storytelling

  • Doug Thomas, MFA Graphic Design ‘16: Never Use Futura

  • Sandra Maxa, director of MICA’s new MA in Graphic Design and Mark Sanders, faculty: Typographic Design: Form and Communication, 7th Edition

Presented by MICA Graduate Studies and Office of Research
Co-sponsors: AIGA Baltimore and SHAG
The authors will sign books after short talks.

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