John Maeda

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"For seven years Maeda and s students n te Aestetcs + Computaton Group (ACG) at te MIT Meda Lab ave created some of te most dgtally sopstcated and exctng peces of desgn to emerge anywere. Creatve code presents te most fascnatng work produced by te group, arranged nto temes tat apply to today's desgn ssues: nformaton vsualzaton, dgtal typograpy, abstracton, educaton and nteracton and dgtal desgn. Eac secton also features bref essays by leadng names n te feld of nteracton and dgtal desgn".--BOOK JACKET.

"John Maeda is one of the world's leading experimental graphic designers and is quickly becoming a digital culture icon. His early preoccupation with the intersection of computer programming and digital art has resulted in a beautiful collection of work. Maeda has pioneered many of the key expressive elements that are prevalent on the web today. Among his most well-known works are The Reactive Square, which features a simple black square on a computer screen that changes shape if one yells at it.". "This is the first publication to present a complete overview of Maeda's work and philosophy. A visual exploration of ideas and graphic form, Maeda @ Media takes you through Maeda's beginnings in early computerized printouts, to his reactive graphics on CD-ROM, to his dynamic experiments on the web, to his pedagogical approach to digital visual art, and finally to his overarching quest to understand the very nature of the relationship between technology and creativity."--BOOK JACKET.

Design By Numbers (or DBN) was an influential experiment in teaching programming initiated at the MIT Media Lab during the 1990s. Led by John Maeda and his students they created software aimed at allowing designers, artists and other non-programmers to easily start computer programming. The software itself could be run in a browser and published alongside the software was a book and courseware. Design By Numbers is no longer an active project but has gone on to influence many other projects aimed at making computer programming more accessible to non-technical people. Its most public result is Processing, created by Maeda's students Casey Reas and Ben Fry, who built on the work of DBN and has gone on to international success

For Callie Merton, one of Finders, Inc.'s best agents, discretion had become a way of life. Even when she married fellow agent Max Chambers, there were matters she couldn't bring herself to discuss with him.But now that withheld information is threatening to break up her marriage. As Callie and Max embark on a final case together, will Callie be able to reveal the truth and save her marriage—or will she allow her past to destroy her future?