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John Maeda
John Maeda, President of the RSID – Rhode Island School of Design, is a world-renowned graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist and is a founding voice for “simplicity” in the digital age.
Named by Esquire magazine as one of the 21 most important people for the twenty-first century, Maeda first made his mark by redefining the use of electronic media as a tool for expression for people of all ages and skills. His mission is to keep simplicity and complexity in a balance and to show how to keep a clear mind in a world that becomes more and more complex.
He is the recipient of the highest career honors for design in the United States, Japan, and Germany and serves on several boards of trustees. John Maeda consults companies all over the world among them Philips Electronics. A faculty member at the Media Lab since 1996, Maeda holds the E. Rudge and Nancy Allen Professorship of Media Arts and Sciences, and co-directs the Lab’s design-oriented Physical Language Workshop and its SIMPLICITY consortium.
He has had major exhibits of his work in Paris, London, New York, and Tokyo. His well-known book “The Law of Simplicity” (2004) has been translated into 14 languages.
Vita John Maeda
John Maeda was born in Seattle, Washington in 1966.
He studied software engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
After completing his bachelors and masters degrees at MIT he went to Japan to study at Tsukuba University’s Institute of Art and Design where he completed his Ph.D. in Design.
In 1999 Esquire named him one of the 21 most important people in the 21st century.
- Since 1996 professor for Design at the MIT
- With 33 years directors of the Aesthetics & Computation Group (ACG)
- Associate Director of Research at the MIT Media Lab
- June 2008 16th president of the RSID – Rhode Island School of Design