Ellen Lupton is Director of the GD MFA program. She is also
curator of contemporary design at Cooper–Hewitt, National
Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City.
She has curated and authored numerous exhibitions and books,
including Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design (2002), National
Design Triennial (2000, 2003, 2006), Graphic Design in the
Mechanical Age (1998), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in
Contemporary Culture (1996), and Mechanical Brides: Women
and Machines from Home to Office (1993). She is a 2007 recipient
of the AIGA Gold Medal for lifetime achievement.
Jennifer Cole Phillips is Associate Director of the GD MFA pro-
gram at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Principal of
J.Cole Phillips Design. Before joining MICA, Phillips was a tenured
Associate Professor in the program in Publications Design at
University of Baltimore. She has an MFA from Rhode Island School
of Design.Her work has been included in the annuals of Graphis
Design, Graphis Poster, Print, the Art Director's Club of
Metropolitan Washington and New York, AIGA 50, and ACD100
Show, among others. She served for eight years on the Board AIGA
of Directors for Baltimore.