Ellen Lupton and Andrew Ibrahim : HealthDesign 101

Special guest Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer, critic. She is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. She has authored numerous books on design processes: Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen, Design Is Storytelling, Health Design Thinking and Extra Bold, a feminist career guide for designers. In 2017, she delivered a TEDxMidAtlantic talk Museums should activate multiple senses, not just the eyeball. Ellen is the founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she received the AIGA Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 2007. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.

Guest Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc, is the chief medical officer of HOK’s Healthcare group and a general surgeon at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Design & Health Fellowship with the Department of Surgery and the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning. Andrew wrote a Fast Company 2020 article reflective of #HealthDesign and #COVID19 What comes next? A surgeon’s 3 predictions for the future of healthcare design. Create a #VisualAbstract from his primer here.  

(Episode image with permission and courtesy of Ellen Lupton.)