Because of a class assignment, I got a chance to know one of the outstanding graphic designer in this century-- John Maeda. John Maeda, a programmer and an artist, is a pioneer of linking design and technology successfully. I was fascinated by his speech at TED.com. The speech was about his recent book Laws of Simplicity and how he came up with the idea of simplicity. I really enjoy his clear and humor way of speech. Also, I like the digital calendar which was a bunch of flying letters jumping out from the bottom of the imagine, though it's kind of complex. However, just as he mentioned that man love complexity. As a graphic design student, I really encourage other students see this speech.
When a civilization came to a certain kind of over-developed, human being came to realize that what is more important to himself and what is real beauty; not all the material things or our outlook, on the contrary, it's the simplicity of the life, ourself. I guess that's why a successful and well known artist, John Maeda, try to simplify his life and art work off course.
3 comments:
Hey Jessy, I want to see some of his works. Could you post some for me please?
Sorry, I'm new to the blog system.
Here I copy the website of the speech as follow: http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/155, please take a look. I'll paste some of his works in another post.
Hey Jessie,
what's up. Great beginning for your blog both on your method of capitalizing street names on mapquest and on John Maeda. I guess everyone has there own way of understanding and communicating information. Did you do the reading on Chapter 2? Anyways, if you did I want to respond by saying that typography is all about meaning especially in dealing with iconic images and signs such as the stop sign to traffic signs. We as a society have seen these when we drive and because we see them so much and have studied them we know what they mean. This is what graphic design is about. It is about meaning and communicating information to other people. Don't you think? See you in class and remember to leave me a message on my blog.
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