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Mini Workshop: Sensory Design

Taller Ellen

Exclusive workshop for attendees with a General Pass or Limited Pass.


Experience the principles of sensory design in this workshop with Ellen Lupton. Each participant will work with a unique scent designed by Christopher Brosius. Using a variety of materials, we will interpret the scents via color, line, and texture. We will discuss principles of sensory perception and enjoy a few perceptual experiments involving taste and smell.

Materials:

  • Scissors
  • Cups for water
  • Sheets of smooth watercolor paper
  • Inexpensive watercolor kits and brushes
     

Instructor

Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. The all-new edition of her bestselling book Thinking with Type launched in March 2024. Other books include Design Is Storytelling, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. 

She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions included Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.


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