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John Maeda

President, Rhode Island School of Design

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Mr. John Maeda has been the President of Rhode Island School of Design since June 1, 2008. Mr. Maeda has a distinguished career in humanizing technology for creative endeavors. He has been a practicing designer since 1990 and has developed advanced projects for an array of major corporations including Cartier, Google, Philips, Reebok, Samsung, among others. His early work in digital media design is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ... Since 2001, his works of contemporary art have been exhibited in one-man shows in London, New York, and Paris to wide acclaim. Mr. Maeda is a highly regarded digital artist. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Cartier Foundation in Paris. Mr. Maeda has focused on applying his analytical and creative impulses in the design of useful objects for the world. Since 1990 he has developed advanced projects for a wide array of corporations, spanning the range of Cartier, Google, Philips, Reebok, and Samsung, among others. His stature in the design world is widely acknowledged. Mr. Maeda serves as a Member of Simplicity Advisory Board of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV, Philips Healthcare and Phillips Medical System. He serves as a Director of The Camden Technology Conference. He serves as a Member of Simplicity Advisory Board of Philips Electronics North America Corporation. He is a Trustee of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He has been a Professor at MIT since 1996 where he is also an Associate Director of Research at the MIT Media Lab, responsible for managing research relationships with 70+ industrial organizations. Mr. Maeda has lectured at numerous conferences, universities, museums, and to corporate audiences throughout the world on his philosophy of "humanizing technology." For more than a decade, he has sustained three parallel careers in which the fine arts, design, and technology interrelate. As a public intellectual and academic, Mr. Maeda has held university positions, has written prolifically, and gained a wide following at the world's most influential venues. He has published four books, the most recent, The Laws of Simplicity, has been translated into fourteen languages and has become the reference work for discussions on the highly elusive theme of "simplicity" in the complex digital world. In 1999, Mr. Maeda was named one of the twenty-one most important people for the twenty-first century by Esquire magazine. In 2001 he received the National Design Award; In 2002, he received the Mainichi Design Prize in Japan; and in 2005 he was awarded the Raymond Loewy Foundation Prize in Germany. Mr. Maeda earned a Bachelors and Masters degree from MIT in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He then received a Ph.D. in Design Science from the University of Tsukuba Institute of Art and Design in Japan. In May 2003, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art. He received an MBA from Arizona State University in May 2006.

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