Elaine Lopez is a designer, creative director, and educator working at the intersection of design, technology, and culture. She is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design and the founder of LoPress Press, an independent design practice collaborating with cultural institutions, educational organizations, and mission-driven companies.
With more than fifteen years of experience spanning brand design, innovation consulting, design research, and education, Elaine has worked across complex systems and emerging technologies—from developing identities and digital experiences to designing new approaches to creative production and collaboration. Her professional experience includes work with organizations such as CaptivateIQ, Samsung, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Jacobin Magazine.
Her current work explores how emerging technologies, including generative AI, are changing the ways designers think, make, teach, and collaborate. As an educator, she works closely with the next generation of designers to understand how new tools are reshaping creative practice while developing methodologies that preserve experimentation, critical thinking, and human agency.
Elaine brings an unusual combination of industry experience, academic research, and hands-on creative practice to conversations about the future of design. She is particularly interested in helping technology companies translate emerging capabilities into tools, workflows, and experiences that creative communities can meaningfully adopt.
Get in touch via email at lopresspress@gmail.com
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With more than fifteen years of experience spanning brand design, innovation consulting, design research, and education, Elaine has worked across complex systems and emerging technologies—from developing identities and digital experiences to designing new approaches to creative production and collaboration. Her professional experience includes work with organizations such as CaptivateIQ, Samsung, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Jacobin Magazine.
Her current work explores how emerging technologies, including generative AI, are changing the ways designers think, make, teach, and collaborate. As an educator, she works closely with the next generation of designers to understand how new tools are reshaping creative practice while developing methodologies that preserve experimentation, critical thinking, and human agency.
Elaine brings an unusual combination of industry experience, academic research, and hands-on creative practice to conversations about the future of design. She is particularly interested in helping technology companies translate emerging capabilities into tools, workflows, and experiences that creative communities can meaningfully adopt.
Get in touch via email at lopresspress@gmail.com
teaching
Parsons School of Design/The New School (full-time, tenure-track)
Pratt Institute (full-time, tenure-track)
Maryland Institute College of Art (AICAD Fellow)
Rhode Island School of Design
Chicago Portfolio School
education
Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
2017-2019
Werkplaats Typografie—ISIA Summer School
Urbino, Italy
Summer 2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
2003-2007
awards
2023 Communication Arts
2020, 2022 Society of Typographic Artists
2019 AICAD Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, MICA
2019 GD USA Designers to Watch
2019 Hispanic Scholarship Foundation
2018 AIGA Worldstudio Coyne Family Foundation Award
2018 Henry Wolf Scholarship
selected clients
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CaptivateIQ
Harvard University
Jacobin
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Samsung
Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
Engaged Humanities Studio, Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania
Parsons School of Design/The New School (full-time, tenure-track)
Pratt Institute (full-time, tenure-track)
Maryland Institute College of Art (AICAD Fellow)
Rhode Island School of Design
Chicago Portfolio School
education
Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
2017-2019
Werkplaats Typografie—ISIA Summer School
Urbino, Italy
Summer 2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
2003-2007
awards
2023 Communication Arts
2020, 2022 Society of Typographic Artists
2019 AICAD Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, MICA
2019 GD USA Designers to Watch
2019 Hispanic Scholarship Foundation
2018 AIGA Worldstudio Coyne Family Foundation Award
2018 Henry Wolf Scholarship
selected clients
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CaptivateIQ
Harvard University
Jacobin
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Samsung
Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
Engaged Humanities Studio, Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania