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"At the time I was building a reputation for myself as being a gifted graphical user interface designer." What products has John Maeda designed that we can use
by 10dpd 14y ago
"At the time I was building a reputation for myself as being a gifted graphical user interface designer."
What products has John Maeda designed that we can use or have used in the past?
Writing books is great, but its the practical application that really builds reputations.
- carlio 14y agoI found it hard to read past the first paragraph after that sentence, to be honest.
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- matthewgifford 14y agoYou're seriously going to stop reading what someone has to say simply because he mentioned that he worked on building his reputation? Your loss.
- stevewillows 14y agoHe's recognized more for his influence on tech and art rather than his name on a specific product. You might say that he was in the right place at the right time with the right interests. The line has a sense of arrogance. Although it is true, it might not need the mention.
- gb 14y agoI didn't read it is arrogance, he's contrasting the praise he was receiving at the time with his own opinion of Paul Rand's genuis.
- matthewgifford 14y agoI agree. If anything, it's poorly worded. I think he's just observing what others think about him. And maybe his intention to make himself be seen as gifted.
- stevewillows 14y agoYeah -- i see that arrogance is the wrong word. The contrast brings that to light. Thanks
- tptacek 14y agoExactly what is the point of this comment?
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- 10dpd 14y agoThe point is to find out which products John Maeda has worked on?
- matthewgifford 14y agoSome of it is here: http://www.maedastudio.com/ http://www.maedastudio.com/ People sometimes look at his work and think it's very simplistic and/or retro. Part of the art is the process it took to get there.
- stephth 14y agoThis list is a good place to start: http://www.maedastudio.com/index.php http://www.maedastudio.com/index.php I would rather not show you specific examples and risk generalizing his work, but I don't want to drown your interest under perhaps too many choices, so I suppose I would point to his different advertisement pieces for Shiseido (interactive and print) as an introduction. (Search for images with the terms John Maeda Shiseido and crawl your way in.) If anyone is really interested in his work (and if you do UI-related work dare I say, you probably want to be), I'd recommend the book "Maeda @ Media", it's a great guide through his earlyish work and process.
- ThomPete 14y agoHe has produced among others Casey Reas and Ben Fry who later went on to create Processing. Maeda is an artist before he is an engineer so what he creates is more experiments using code.
- disordinary 14y agoYou'd think someone who lectures design wouldn't have such a crappy blog.
- disordinary 14y agoOr website sorry, wasn't a blog but a website for Asthetics + Computer group at MIT.