InfoCompanions » Guiding Principle http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Simplicity patterns http://www.infocompanions.com/simplicity-patterns/ http://www.infocompanions.com/simplicity-patterns/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.net/?p=91 The Media Lab’s lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

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About John Maeda:
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, the legendary Muriel Cooper persuaded him 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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