Creative Code
John Maeda
Foreword by Red Burns
With guest essays by Casey Reas
John Simon Jr.
David Small
Martin Wattenburg
Peter Cho
Yugo Nakamura
Golan Levin
Joshua Davis
Elise Co
Daniel Rozin
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| ‘Visually stunning … dispels the nerdish notion that digital programming often evokes, and elevates it into something cool’ | | – Web Designer |
Few digital designers or artists have had the long-term international impact of John Maeda. His work in print and digital design has influenced an entire generation.
Maeda's role as an educator is perhaps even more influential than his design projects. For seven years he and his students in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab have created some of the most digitally sophisticated and exciting pieces of design to emerge anywhere, with several of the group’s members graduating to international acclaim. Little of this intensive research and ground-breaking work, however, has been seen outside the laboratory.
Creative Code presents the most fascinating work produced by the group, arranged into themes that apply to today’s most pertinent design issues: information visualization, digital typography, abstraction, interaction design and education. Each section features brief essays by leading names in the field of interaction and digital design – Casey Reas, David Small, Joshua Davis, Yugo Nakamura and Gillian Crampton Smith.
This rich compilation, by some of the most inventive minds working in this ever-expanding field, offers a blueprint for the humane integration of digital design in our culture and lives.
John Maeda heads the MIT Media Lab’s Physical Language Workshop. A recipient of some of the world’s most prestigious design awards, Maeda has most recently been honoured with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Design Award and Japan’s Mainichi Design Prize. His first major manifesto-cum-monograph, MAEDA @MEDIA (2000), documented his complete oeuvre.
Also of interest:
maeda@media
Digital Art
The Typographic Experiment:
Radical Innovation in Contemporary Type Design |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500285179 | | ISBN-13 978-0500285176 | | | | 22.3 x 20.5 cm | | Paperback with flaps | | 256pp | | With over 600 illustrations | | First published 2004 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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