John Maeda (born 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author. He is the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design. His work in design and technology explores the area where the two fields merge. Maeda was originally a software engineering student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) when he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel Cooper.

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  • John Maeda (born 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author. He is the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design. His work in design and technology explores the area where the two fields merge. Maeda was originally a software engineering student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) when he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel Cooper. Cooper was a director of MIT's Visual Language Workshop. After completing his bachelors and masters degrees at MIT, Maeda studied in Japan at Tsukuba University's Institute of Art and Design to complete his Ph.D. in design. In 1999, he was named one of the 21 most important people in the 21st century by Esquire. In 2001, he received the National Design Award for Communication Design in the United States and Japan's Mainichi Design Prize. Maeda is currently working on SIMPLICITY, a research project to find ways for people to simplify their life in the face of growing complexity. His research has led to the publishing of Laws of Simplicity, his best-selling book to date. He currently lives with his wife, Kris, and their five daughters, in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • John Maeda ist Designer, Autor und Präsident der Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). John Maeda ist ein Grafik- und Interaction-Designer sowie Informatiker, der immer wieder die Verknüpfung zwischen Gestaltung und Technologie sucht. Er entwickelt diverse Software-Tools, Websites, schreibt Bücher und hält am MIT Media Lab und vielen anderen Einrichtungen Vorlesungen über die Verknüpfung dieser beiden bedeutsamen Bereiche.
  • John Maeda est un artiste, graphiste, enseignant et chercheur de renommée internationale. Il a été l’élève de Paul Rand, et de Muriel Cooper au Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT"), dont il est diplômé et où il dirige le département Aesthetics and Computing Group. Il est également titulaire d’une thèse doctorale en design de la Tsukuba University Institute of Art and Design au Japon. Il a créé en pionnier dans un registre mêlant les arts plastiques, le design, la typographie et l’interactivité, une œuvre originale faite de travaux de commande en design (pour Sony, Shiseido, Cartier) d'expérimentations personnelles parues sur CD-ROM (Tap, Type, Write en 1998; 12 O’Clocks en 1997; Flying Letters en 1996; Reactive Square en 1995; tous chez Digitalogue co). Son travail n'est pas sans rappeler les formes pionnières de l'abstraction géométrique. On pense par exemple à Vera Molnar. Il a mis au point une méthode d’apprentissage de la programmation nommée design by numbers qui est le titre d’un livre, ainsi que d’un programme éponyme. Cette méthode s'adresse particulièrement aux non informaticiens que sont souvent les designers graphiques. Deux de ses anciens étudiants, Benjamin Fry et Casey Reas, ont poursuivi dans cette direction pour réaliser Processing, un environnement de design interactif très prometteur, basé sur la plate-forme Java. John Maeda est l’auteur de plusieurs livres majeurs sur le design interactif : Creative Code, maeda@media, et Design by Numbers. Son travail a reçu plusieurs prix, dont les Japan's Mainichi Design Prize en 2002, Smithsonian Institution's National Design Award en 2001, le Design Management Institute Muriel Cooper Prize en 2001 et le Daimler Chrysler Design Prize en 2000. Il a été choisi pour être le prochain président de la Rhode Island School of Design (à partir de juin 2007).
  • Attualmente ricopre il ruolo di Preside presso la Rhode Isand School of Design. Il suo lavoro nel campo del design e della tecnologia è incentrato sull'area in cui questi due ambiti si intersecano. Maeda era originariamente uno studente di ingegneria informatica presso il Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) quando fu affascinato dal lavoro di Paul Rand e Muriel Cooper. Cooper era il direttore di un workshop sul linguaggio visuale presso il MIT. Dopo aver conseguito una laurea e un master presso il MIT, Maeda ha studiato in Giappone alla Tsukuba University's Institute of Art and Design per completare il suo dottorato in design. Nel 1999 è stato nominato come una delle 21 persone più importanti nel XXI secolo da Esquire. Nel 2001 ha ricevuto il National Design Award for Communication Design negli Stati Uniti e il Mainichi Design Prize in Giappone. Attualmente Maeda sta lavorando a SIMPLICITY, un progetto di ricerca destinato a trovare vie per semplificare la vita delle persone rispetto alla crescente complessità. La sua ricerca lo ha condotto a pubblicare il best-seller "Le leggi della semplicità". Vive a Lexington, Massachusetts, con sua moglie Kris e le sue cinque figlie.
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  • John Maeda (born 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author. He is the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design. His work in design and technology explores the area where the two fields merge. Maeda was originally a software engineering student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) when he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel Cooper.
  • John Maeda ist Designer, Autor und Präsident der Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). John Maeda ist ein Grafik- und Interaction-Designer sowie Informatiker, der immer wieder die Verknüpfung zwischen Gestaltung und Technologie sucht. Er entwickelt diverse Software-Tools, Websites, schreibt Bücher und hält am MIT Media Lab und vielen anderen Einrichtungen Vorlesungen über die Verknüpfung dieser beiden bedeutsamen Bereiche.
  • John Maeda est un artiste, graphiste, enseignant et chercheur de renommée internationale. Il a été l’élève de Paul Rand, et de Muriel Cooper au Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT"), dont il est diplômé et où il dirige le département Aesthetics and Computing Group. Il est également titulaire d’une thèse doctorale en design de la Tsukuba University Institute of Art and Design au Japon.
  • Attualmente ricopre il ruolo di Preside presso la Rhode Isand School of Design. Il suo lavoro nel campo del design e della tecnologia è incentrato sull'area in cui questi due ambiti si intersecano. Maeda era originariamente uno studente di ingegneria informatica presso il Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) quando fu affascinato dal lavoro di Paul Rand e Muriel Cooper. Cooper era il direttore di un workshop sul linguaggio visuale presso il MIT.
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