John Maeda!! Just standing in the same room--you feel smarter!
Oct 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM 
Two nights ago I had dinner at the home of John Maeda, in Providence, Rhode Island. If you are into graphic design...or claim to be a graphic designer, you need to know this mans work. He is a pioneer and a guru. He was the former director of MIT's media lab. He is now the new president of RISD (Rhode Island School of Design)-- and his forward thinking is bound to shake the place up. Peep this video from TED conference-- long, but interesting. He is the man! Change agent.
from wiki--
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, a position assumed in June 2008. 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.
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