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Curating the Self Michel Foucault coined the phrase “care of the self” to describe the ancient art of developing personal excellences through the practice of vir-tue (plus plenty of hand-to-hand combat).

If care of the self embraces diet, exercise, leg waxing, and the pursuit of philosophy in the bed-room, curating the self involves the strategic dis-play and archiving of intellectual, artistic, social, or domestic projects — in the form of blogs, web pages, e-portfolios, or Facebook profiles. My own web site, Thinking with Shakespeare, is certainly a curatorial performance, where I like to house favorite links, recent lectures, current teaching, and emergent thoughts.

“Care” and “curate” both come from the same Latin root, cura: care, concern, worry. In Roman law, the curator was the grown-up legally re-sponsible for a minor. Only later did the curator become the person overseeing a collection or ar-chive (impressionist paintings, milk glass, vintage condoms).

A well-curated personal website requires both an organized database at the back end and a wel-coming front porch, parlor, or gallery for visitors.

Curating the Self: A Modest Manifesto

1. Save everything.2. Share a few things.3. Cultivate a visually crisp, easily accessed for-mat.4. Refresh your content.5. Edit (keep the word count down).6. Editorialize (have a manifesto, or at least write your way towards one).7. And please: soft peddle the “self” part. Make sure you have something to say about some things that matter.

Check out this nice example of the well-curated self assembled by undergraduate Thomas Schum-acher. Thomas’ web site has been nominated for “Best Electronic Portfolio” at UC, Irvine this year. (He’s curating his output under the mentorship of Liz Losh.)

— Julia Lupton · 2009-04-01

ABOUT DESIGN YOUR LIFE

Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things is a new book by Ellen and Julia Lupton (St. Martin’s Press, May 2009). It’s also the name of our blog, Design-Your-Life.org, which we started in the summer of 2005. The blog gener-ated over 1,200 separate articles and countless comments by dozens of contributors.

This new iteration of our site, launched in Octo-ber 2008, was created to celebrate the publica-tion of our book. For technical reasons, entries posted before August 2008 are currently unavail-able, but we hope to recover them in the future.

Design, we argue, is more than the stuff you buy at high-end stores or the modern look that moves products at Target and IKEA. Design is critical thinking. It is a way of looking at the world and wondering why things work, and why they don’t. Use design to recognize the forms of pleasure and productivity hiding in the messes of daily life, be it a room, a laundry bin, a pile of papers, or a busy schedule. Design is creative thinking. Use it to stage memorable parties without burning out, to squeeze meaning and joy out of commercial holidays, and to enact your own vision of what’s hip, cool, beautiful, or just.

Design Your Life is about objects and how we interact with them. Illustrated throughout with paintings of things both ordinary and odd, this

book casts a sharp eye on parenthood, housekeep-ing, entertaining, time management, crafting, and more. We take an irreverent and realistic look at everything from the objects on our coun-ters and the rooms we live in to the attitudes that promise us happiness in an increasingly fragile world. Speaking to readers who are both design-conscious and consumer-wary, Design Your Life taps into the popular interest in design as well as people’s desire to make their own way through a mass-produced world.

ABOUT ELLEN AND JULIA LUPTON

ELLEN AND JULIA LUPTON are educators, citizens, mothers and identical twins who write together and separately about matters concerning design and everyday life.

ELLEN LUPTON is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA).

Design is the subject of all her work. She has pro-duced numerous books and exhibitions on obscure topics, including The Kitchen, the Bathroom, and the Aesthetics of Waste (1992), Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002). She has recently become obsessed with bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Thinking

with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography di-rected at everyone who works with words. D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), co-authored with her graduate students, shows general readers how to make books, business cards, wedding invitations, and other useful communications. A little Photo-shop is a dangerous thing, and this handy guide makes it even more so.

Ellen has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She has a regular column, “The El Word,” in Readymade magazine. She is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen.

JULIA LUPTON teaches English and writes books about Shakespeare at the University of California, Irvine. In 2007, she was named a Chancellor’s Fel-low in recognition of her scholarly contributions to Shakespeare studies. She is currently Director of the Humanities Core Course and the co-founder of the UCI Design Alliance. At night, she blogs about design with her twin sister Ellen Lupton (www.design-your-life.org).

Julia contributed several essays to Ellen’s book DIY: Design It Yourself. Ellen and Julia went on to co-author the sequel, DIY Kids, released in Fall, 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press. DIY Kids shows Generation Tween how to save the world one recycled cereal box and two graffiti brace-

lets at a time. “It’s never too early,” the twins explain, “to talk to your child about design.” Ac-cording to a review on Etsy.com, D.I.Y. Kids breaks down the complex ideas behind design and brand-ing into easy, simple activities for kids to under-stand.” DIY Kids has been published in Portuguese by the Brazilian press Cosac Naify.

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Exclusive Highlight on TAXI Design NetworkInterview with Ellen Lupton

TAXI >>In your article, Myth of a Working Mum, you mentioned that your children view your work as ‘cool’ as they too get to learn more about design, would you strongly encourage them to follow the same career path as yours when they are older?

Ellen Lupton >> I want design to be part of their lives, but that doesn’t mean I want them to become professional designers. Whatever they end up doing professionally, I want them to think creatively, value their physical environment, take pride and pleasure in how they communicate, and use “art” in all its manifestations to make a bet-ter world.

TAXI >>Milton Glaser said during a panel discussion that there are very few women who are rock star designers because “women get pregnant, have children, go home and take care of their chil-dren”, but you proved him wrong by balancing a successful design career and family. What is your take on this?

Ellen Lupton >> First of all, I’m not a rock star designer. I’m a design educator who has been lucky enough to reach broader audiences than

most educators do through my publishing and curatorial work. Milton is the rock star. Secondly, I believe there’s a lot of truth to what Milton said. It’s very hard to reconcile raising a family with achieving unbridled success in any field. Fathers have a tough time, too, but the burden tends to be greater on women, based as much on our own choices as on external expectations.

The idea that you can drop out of your career for six or ten years and hop back in without having lost ground is not realistic, and Milton shouldn’t be demonized for saying so. Milton also got peo-ple mad by saying that mothers are better parents to their kids than nannies or daycare centers. This rather obvious statement makes people very an-gry. I guess we don’t want to hear it from a man, or we just don’t want to hear it at all.

TAXI >>Taking on such esteemed and important roles as a writer, curator, graphic designer and the director of the graphic design course Maryland In-stitute College of Art (MICA), do you give a certain role more precedence over another?

Ellen Lupton >> My books are the most important part of my collective output, because they have a lasting physical presence, they circulate and have an influence over time, and they get picked up and used and interpreted by people in vari-ous parts of the world. Exhibitions and classroom teaching are more ephemeral. That said, all my projects feed each other and reflect a common

set of obsessions.

TAXI >>From an educator at the Maryland Institute College of Art’s point of view, what do you think is essential now to the future generation of graphic designers as compared to the past?

Ellen Lupton >> Designers will need to constantly retrain themselves over the course of their ca-reers. (I’ve survived three different technological paradigms myself, and it’s a big, big undertaking to stay current.) Designers need to be great col-laborators, something we all learn on the job but could be better prepared for in school. Climate change is a huge issue that our field is just coming to terms with; we need to become part of the solution, not just part of the problem.

TAXI >>One of your books in the works, D.I.Y. Kids is something very different from the books you are used to writing, namely that your target readers are much younger, how do you adapt and change your writing style for easier reading?

Ellen Lupton >> D.I.Y. Kids, co-authored with my sister Julia (with help from our six kids and all their friends) is unique not only because it is written for kids but is also illustrated mostly with kids’ artwork. So much for the design profession and its sacred trade secrets! Julia and I didn’t “dumb down” our book for kids. We just keep the language simple and direct. Kids are the future, and we respect them wholly. See http://www.

diykids.org for more info.

TAXI >>A designer once warned Paula Scher that “the danger of doing a book of my own work, beyond the obvious egotism involved, is that after its publication I’d be “over.” Has there been a period of time when you felt that you are “over”, or almost?

Ellen Lupton >> I felt “over” when my first child was born 12 years ago. It was a shock to have this tiny human being depend on me for so much. It was a shock not to be able to work whenever I wanted to. But as it turned out, I have been able to have a rewarding career as a working mom. Maybe I could have been a rock star, but I really don’t think so. I love my family, and I love my work. I need them both.

TAXI >>As a veteran in the field of graphic design, how do you think the scene has evolved from when you started?

Ellen Lupton >> The general public is more aware of design and more involved with it on a daily basis. People have better products to buy, and better books and magazines to read. Craft stores like Michaels are full of intriguing design supplies. Above all, the Internet has given people access to a whole new venue for authoring and image-mak-ing, especially since the rise of blogging.

The fact that people are exposed to fonts, tem-

plates, and “desk-top publishing” has made the public, as a whole, more knowledgeable about design, and I believe that’s a good thing. Within the profession, there are more areas of special-ization, like web design, motion graphics, and environmental graphics, than when I entered the field. Design has thus become both more general-ized and more complex. Unrelated to technology, I’m seeing a new permeability between graphic design and illustration, which was a verboten marriage when I was in art school. All these changes make it a terrific time to be a designer.

TAXI >>Which WORD do you think would reside and reverberate in the design world for the next 10 years?

Ellen Lupton >> Green

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