John Maeda

About

Named by Esquire magazine as one of the 21 most important people for the twenty-first century, graphic designer, computer scientist and visual artist John Maeda first made his mark by redefining the use of electronic media as a tool for expression for people of all ages and skills. A faculty member at the MIT Media Lab since 1996, Maeda held the E. Rudge and Nancy Allen Professorship of Media Arts and Sciences, founded the SIMPLICITY Consortium, and co-directed the Lab's design-oriented Physical Language Workshop. He exhibited work at galleries in Paris, London, New York, and Tokyo, and received Germany's Loewy Foundation Prize (2005), Japan's Mainichi Design Prize (2002) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Design Award (2001). He is author of The Laws of Simplicity, Creative Code, Maeda@Media, and Design by Numbers. In 2008, John Maeda became the 16th President of The Rhode Island School of Design.