Inspired talk by John Maeda, Artist.
John Maeda is a graphic designer and computer scientist dedicated to linking design and technology. Through the software tools, web pages and books he creates, as well as his devoted students at MIT’s Media Lab, he spreads his philosophy of elegant simplicity.
About this Talk
The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art — a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working — but in this talk, he boils it down to one simply delightful way to be.
John Maeda is a programmer and an artist — and is committed to blurring the lines between the two disciplines. As a student at MIT, studying computer programming, he was persuaded 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 MAEDA@MEDIA.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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September 11th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Assalaumu Alaikum,
Dear Sister,
It’s so good to hear from you as always. We see that you have moved west of the Mississippi now. Yes, you have crossed the big river. Alhamdulillah you are well in this another year of Ramadan. One question sister, do you have any Gypsy in your ancestry? You have moved a few times since we first met you, but Insha Allah, it has been good moves for you we pray. And we also ask that you remember us in your prayers also. I pray that I have your email address correct. I was erasing your old address and accidentally erased part of your email address. I looked you up on the search engine and found you on another site and am sending this email to you via that also so, Insha Allah if I didn’t get the email rewritten correctly you will get it via that site. You have been the only person to have kept in touch with us throughout all of these years since the Islamic Society Of Norht America’s conventions.and we are very thankful that you have. We will be moving sometime soon and will try to remember and send that information to you via this email address and that website also.I wrote down the site to make sure that I have it just in case I need to find another way of getting in touch with you. Take care and Insha Allah, have a Blessed Ramadan. Wa Salaam Alaikum,
Shahid & Haniyfa Raki