John Maeda

 

 

John Maeda is an American executive, designer, and technologist. John Maeda has an art for merging business, design, and technology. He was a Professor at the MIT Media Lab for 12 years, and then became the President of the Rhode Island School of Design from 2008 to 2013. He is currently Design Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where he advises startups on the business impact of design. He also serves on the Board of Directors of consumer electronics company Sonos and global advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy.

As an artist, Maeda’s early work redefined the use of electronic media as a tool for expression by combining computer programming with traditional artistic technique, laying the groundwork for the interactive motion graphics that are taken for granted on the web today. He has exhibited in one-man shows in London, New York and Paris. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Cartier Foundation in Paris.

At RISD, Maeda led the movement to transform STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) to STEAM by adding Art. He states:

“I believe art and design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century like science and technology did in the last century”

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                        KATE MOROSS

At the age of 26 Kate Moross has accomplished more than most people would in a lifetime. After graduating from London’s Wimbledon University of the Arts she went on to seek her Bachelor of Art’s degree at Camberwell University of the Arts. During her studies there she set up her first excursion Isomorph Records. Isomorph though should some potential did not last, it was discontinued in 2012. During the four year adventure she also joined Pulse Films. There she worked as a director and was able to work with many popular artists.Other accomplishments during these 4 years were ranking 18 out of 50 for the NME’S Future 50 innovators and founding Moross Studios.

Moross’s graphic design work consists of art illustration, motion graphics, photography, and moving image. Still after completing her studies she has stayed prominent in her field by working with Mini Cooper, ESPN, Nike, Addidas, and Paul Smith. She has also worked on the illustration for Vogue Magazine, and a billboard campaign for Cadbury nationwide. In 2014 her first book was published “Make Your Own Luck”, and in 2012 she was selected to run the Olympic torch in Lewisham. For such a young women she already has a pretty amazing profile. 

Storm Thorgerson

Storm Thorgerson was an English graphic designer. He worked with a vast amount of big name bands including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Genesis and a bunch more. He was of Norwegian decent, and went to school in Cambridge with the founders of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett and Roger Waters, who were both a year above and a year below him respectively. He studies English and philosophy in Leicester, and then studied Film and television at the Royal college of Art, graduating with is masters. He founded the graphic artist group Hipnosis, and between them they design many famous album covers, in 1983 he started producing music videos.  His greatest album cover was the Pink Floyd: The Darkside of the moon. in 2013 Prog Magazine renamed is Grand design award after him, calling it the Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award. which he won (before it was renamed) in 2012. Unfortunately after a long fight with cancer he dies at the age of 69.

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Harry Beck

Henry Charles Beck

(Harry Beck)

      Harry Beck is known for creating the London Underground Tube Map. This is something that was a non-commission project that Beck worked on, during his spare time. Beck believed that the current version that existed of the underground tube system was not practical. He felt the map was very congested, as it was laid over the top of the roadways of London and seemed not very user friendly. The Tube map that was designed by Harry Beck was detailed more toward the users of the system being able to understand where platforms are and how to get from one to the other. His design was embraced immediately and has been used ever since. 

       

Jefray Arwadi, born in Jakarta, Indonesia 1974, is a self-taught graphic designer, music producer and musician,   who actually earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia.  After trying his hand at painting, he discovered his true passion was in music.  He was part of numerous bands, namely Kekal, Altera Enigma, and Armegeddon Holocaust.  He was also known for his work as a freelance graphic designer under Soundmind Graphics and ran his own home based recording studio, Vision Studio, in Jakarta up until 2006 when he moved to Canada. Since his early childhood, he was interested in art and music.  His exposure to the diversity of culture religion and ethnicity early in life aided him in the formation of his own liberal view of music and art.  He is married and lives in Calgary, Canada.