Designer John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. Maeda, a tireless experimenter and a witty observer, explores the crucial moment when design met computers.

When John Maeda became president of the legendary design college RISD in 2008, he told the Wall Street Journal, "Everyone asks me, 'Are you bringing technology to RISD?' I tell them, no, I'm bringing RISD to technology." In his fascinating career as a programmer and an artist, he's always been committed to blurring the lines between the two disciplines. As a student at MIT, studying computer programming, the legendary Muriel Cooper persuaded him to follow his parallel passion for fine art and design. And when computer-aided design began to explode in the mid-1990s, Maeda was in a perfect position to influence and shape the form, helping typographers and page designers explore the freedom of the web.

He jokes about himself as "the guy who makes the flying letters." But behind this joke is a deep insight into the way good programming can create new forms of good design -- the guiding principle of Web 2.0, where type and images can behave in brand-new ways to communicate and amuse.

He's the author of several books, including his latest, The Laws of Simplicity, and the retrospective [email protected]

    "Maeda's vision finds its purest expression in his open-source infrastructure for creativity on the Web -- a kind of Linux for art tools -- in which the browser becomes a global hub for editing, annotating, and sharing digital media."

Fast Company

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