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”
Source: Wikipedia
“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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