June book pick:

Design Is Storytelling

written by Ellen Lupton

Grab your favorite drink and join us for a chill evening discussing Design Is Storytelling — community-led, not recorded, just us figuring it out together.

About the book:

In a nutshell: It's about how design and storytelling share the same DNA — and how understanding that connection makes you a better designer.

Here's the full description if you want to dive deeper:

Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. Whether crafting a digital app or a data-rich publication, designers invite people to enter a scene and explore what's there. An intriguing logo, page layout or retail space uses line, shape and form to lead users on dynamic journeys.

Design Is Storytelling explores the psychology of visual perception from a narrative point of view. Presenting dozens of tools and concepts in a lively, visual manner, this book will help any designer amplify the narrative power of their work.

Use this book to stir emotions, build empathy, articulate values and convey action. To construct narrative arcs and create paths through space. To integrate form and language, evaluate a project's storytelling power, and write and deliver strong narratives.



About the author :
About the author:

Ellen Lupton is a writer, designer, and educator based in Baltimore. She has authored and co-authored numerous books about graphic design, including Design Is Storytelling, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking, Extra Bold, and her latest, Thinking with Type (3rd Edition).

Ellen teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. 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.

Her "Type Mom" persona on Instagram (@EllenLupton) has attracted thousands of followers.

https://elupton.com/