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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 or have used in the past?

Writing books is great, but its the practical application that really builds reputations.




This list is a good place to start: 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.


He'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.


I 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.


I 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.


Yeah -- i see that arrogance is the wrong word. The contrast brings that to light. Thanks


Exactly what is the point of this comment?


The point is to find out which products John Maeda has worked on?


Some of it is here: 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.


I found it hard to read past the first paragraph after that sentence, to be honest.


You're seriously going to stop reading what someone has to say simply because he mentioned that he worked on building his reputation? Your loss.


He 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.


You'd think someone who lectures design wouldn't have such a crappy blog.


Or website sorry, wasn't a blog but a website for Asthetics + Computer group at MIT.




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