Grids: they’re everywhere Emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to Mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. But the grid has a history that long predates modernity; it is the most prominent visual structure in Western culture.
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ABC Radio National - By Design: Grids, Design of Education, & John Maeda of RISD
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Open Source - Sir Ken Robinson & John Maeda: Creativity for Breakfast
Both men are titans of the TED conference style of presenting “ideas worth spreading” to the Web. John Maeda emerged at TED two winters ago talking about The Laws of Simplicity, while inside he was reeling toward his own future, head still spinning from Ken Robinson’s TED talk a year earlier on education as a standardized way of crushing invention. Maeda, a star at MIT’s Media Lab, still in his thirties, heard a call from the heavens to “change my life.” And so he did, moving from MIT and the engineering of technology to the presidency of the Rhode Island School of Design and the teaching of art and innovation. After a RISD year that he’s been blogging at every turn, Maeda’s invitation to Robinson to give the commencement address felt like a personal thank-you and maybe an appeal for confirmation. Early on RISD’s graduation day, we had a three-way gab at the Hope Club in Providence about expressiveness and originality, in art and life, across the board.
http://www.radioopensource.org/ken-robinson-john-maeda-creativity-for-breakfast/
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Web 2.0 Expo: John Maeda Designs Technology’s Human Side
John Maeda, president of Rhode Island School of Design, comments on his ideas of time, simplicity, and technology.
He describes how the pendulum is now swinging back from technology towards humanity and creative leadership.
http://fora.tv/2009/04/01/Graphic_Artist_John_Maeda_Designs_Technologys_Human_Side
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