Design

John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for demos of Maeda's earliest work -- and even a computer made of people.

J John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, and author of Redesigning Leadership (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life), is the founder of the SIMPLICITY Consortium at the MIT Media Lab.

Maeda's work has been exhibited in Tokyo, New York, London, and Paris and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

He is the recipient of many awards, including the Smithsonian Institution National Design Award in the United States, the Raymond Loewy Foundation Prize in Germany, and the Mainichi Design Prize in Japan.


Maeda's earlier work, highlighted in Design by Numbers and Maeda Media dealt with the possibilities of simple design in the interactive world. His reactive graphics, for instance,     were simple and sought a way to simplify a user's interaction with the computer. Rather than awkwardly manipulating a mouse or keyboard, a user simply talks into a microphone and the graphic reacts and morphs in response.


In the video below, Maeda delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for demos of Maeda's earliest work -- and even a computer made of people.



SOURCE  TED

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