FACULTY

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.

ADDITIONAL FACULTY

Abbott Miller is a designer, editor, art director, and writer. He is
a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, where his clients
include Vitra, the Guggenheim Museum, the Ford Foundation, and
Harley-Davidson International. He is editor and art director of
Twice magazine.He has designed numerous books and exhibitions,
and is co-author with Ellen Lupton of the booksDesign Writing
Research (1996) and The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics
of Waste (1992). He has taught courses in the GD MFA program at
MICA since 2004.

Kevin Auer is letterpress printer and book binder. He received
his BA from Connecticut College and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in
the history program at the University of Texas, Austin, where he completed
a certificate in Book and Paper Conservation. He apprenticed as a printer
and book binder and worked in private practice for a number of years as co-
owner of Wolf Editions, a fine-art edition print shop in Portland, Maine.
He is presently the Assistant Manuscript Conservator at the Walters Art
Museum in Baltimore. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in
letterpress and bookbinding at MICA.

Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen are designers, musicians, and poster
artists. They are founders of the notorious studio PostTypography.
They have lectured and performed around the country. Their music
group Double Dagger is considered the world’s first punk typography
band. Post Typography’s limited edition book Alphabet: Hand-Drawn
Lettering and Experimental Typography, is a compendium of sixty
international alphabets. Nolen and Bruce have BFAs from MICA, and
they have taught courses in the graduate and undergraduate programs
since 2006.