Ellen Lupton/Magazine Shot

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This is a photo of a magazine article in Print Magazine January/Febreuary 2005, "Going Public: A Napster-like revolution in Graphic Design Promises to Spread Design and Its Tools to the Masses," by Ellen Lupton.

Design is an instrument for packaging ideas and making them public. Giving people access to design tools helps them make their own knowledge and ideas tangible. This active mode of literacy folds back into the ability to read and understand what's out there in the world. Learning to build your own Web site, or edit your own movie, or publish your own book, makes you more critical of the media you see and experience each day, and more cognizant of the skill and artistry required to create such media at the highest level.

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