6 Quotes & Sayings By John Maeda

John Maeda is President of the Rhode Island School of Design. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Design at the MIT Media Lab, a Professor at the City College Graduate Center, a Professor of Design at New York University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and a 2008 TED Fellow. He was named one of New York's 100 most influential creative thinkers by Fast Company Magazine and one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in business Read more

His work has been featured in the September 2009 cover story of BusinessWeek, "10 Creative Thinkers Changing Business."

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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. John Maeda
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Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. John Maeda
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I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then. John Maeda
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I don't really love computers. John Maeda
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Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well. John Maeda