books by John Maeda

books by John Maeda

books:

John Maeda

Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation

John Maeda

Thames & Hudson, 2004

powerfull secret message
I read 7 times in a row this book to analyse it in depth. It is fun and very exciting to read as you go through dozen of highly interesting projects. My analysis of this book brought me to the conclusion that it also contains a vision, a powerfull secret message. It ...

Design By Numbers

John Maeda

The MIT Press, 2001

You know, it's strange....
I like this book a lot, but the thing I like best has nothing to do with programming --- It's the attention to typographic detail. Beautiful grey/black combinations, meticulous rags, tiny illustrations and a very interesting grid make this the best looking book with ...

The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

John Maeda

The MIT Press, 2006

Helpful guide on how to incorporate simplicity into your product planning
The poet William Wordsworth once wrote, "The world is too much with us." If this was true in the bucolic 18th and 19th centuries when Wordsworth lived, it is even more true today, when every gadget comes with an incomprehensible 100-page instruction manual. Thus, ...

The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

Rich Gold

The MIT Press, 2007

Innovating for a World We Want to Live In
Lisner Auditorium at GWU in DC hosted a conference "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Global Resource Depletion & Extinction" Sept. 14-16, 2007 sponsored by the IPS and IFG. With the talks from this conference still reverberating in my ...

Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture

Jessica Helfland

Princeton Architectural Press, 2001

Big thoughts come in small packages
Although the amount of writing about design has grown remarkably over the last several years, only a small bit of it is actually any good. And while I think an increased amount of discourse is generally a positive thing, I think in design's case we've come to the ...

Creative Code
John Maeda

W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004

Creative Code: Ästhetik und Programmierung am MIT Media Lab
John Maeda

Birkhäuser Basel, 2004

Mit seinen unkonventionellen Thesen zum Umgang mit Computern im Bereich der Grafik hat der amerikanische Design- und Informatikprofessor John Maeda die Grafikwelt schokkiert. Er weist nach, dass nahezu alle zeitgenössischen Grafiker mit vorgefertigten Programmen arbeiten, durch die sie zu «abhängigen Anwendern vorgefertigter Industrienormen» ...

The Reactive Square
John Maeda

Takayama Repro, Inc., 1995

Book and 3 1/2 disc.

Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists

Casey Reas, Ben Fry

The MIT Press, 2007

More than a reference book!
I have been watching the development of processing and the processing community for a few years but until now haven't explored it much. I create live visuals for musical performances - mostly within the chiptunes music scene (people using game console hardware to ...

Maeda @ Media

John Maeda

Universe Publishing, 2001

A Monument to Information Society
I have always been impressed with John Maeda's work: "Tap, Type, Write" is beautifully interactive, "Design By Numbers" is extremely innovative. Professor Maeda's newest endeavor, Maeda@Media is no different. It is a monument to Information Aesthetics and an icon for ...

Simplicity: Die zehn Gesetze der Einfachheit
John Maeda

Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2007

?Das Einfache ist nicht immer das Beste. Aber das Beste ist immer einfach.? (Heinrich Tessenow, Architekt) ?Perfektion ist nicht dann erreicht, wenn man nichts mehr hinzufügen, sondern wenn man nichts mehr weglassen kann.? (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) Weniger ist mehr, sagt man oft. Doch allzu häufig gilt auch: Einfach ist verdammt schwer. ...