What does "beauty" mean? How can beauty be brought into your work? For a half-hour class on beauty, join museum curators Ellen Lupton & Andrea Lipps!
- Visit the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
- Explore five themes using dozens of examples of contemporary art and design.
- Make a beautiful pattern with your own ideas of beauty.
This course was inspired by the 2016 exhibition Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. It is the fifth installment of the museum's iconic contemporary design exhibition series. Beauty focuses on aesthetic innovation and celebrates design as an artistic endeavor that engages the body, mind, and senses.
The exhibition is brought to life in this Skillshare class. You will be moved by beauty to ask questions, move beyond the decorative, and drive structural, ethical, and material change. Each lesson is rich in visuals, examples, insights, and will change the way you view art and the world around it.
This class is ideal for graphic designers, creatives, as well as enthusiasts. You only need a passion for design and a curiosity about beauty to be able to teach this class.
This class was presented in collaboration by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Cooper Hewitt's Senior Curator for Contemporary Design is Ellen Lupton. Lupton is also a well-known graphic designer and serves as the director of the graphic design MFA Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has also written numerous books on design processes including Thinking With Type; Graphic Design Thinking, and Graphic Design: the New Basics. In 2007, she was awarded the AIGA gold medal in recognition of her lifetime achievements.
Andrea Lipps is a writer, curator, and educator. She is the Assistant Curator at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, where she is responsible for contemporary design. She also co-curates the "Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial." She has contributed to many books and exhibitions and was also a 2015 Mobius Fellow in Helsinki. She is also a visiting critic at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute.
