John Maeda @ TED

Got this clip from TED if you have'nt come across this site before you really need to check it out."TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds." Amazing video streamed lectures.

The clip below is of John Maeda - Talking about simplicity

The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art -- a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working -- but in this talk, he boils it down to one simply delightful way to be.

MAEDA:MySPACE

Ever since reading 'Meada @ Media', John Maeda has been a great source of creative inspiration for me aesthetically aswell as conceptually. The book opened my eyes up to Aesthetics and Computation and the ACG at the MIT where John is the director. So many amazing people have been part of ACG such as Golan Levin,Ben Fry and Casey Reas just to name a few. [ Ben Fry and Casey Reas are reponsible for the amazing open source software Processing. ]

This exhibition follows on from John Maeda's most recent book 'The Laws of Simplicity' (MIT Press, 2006). This truly inspiring exhibition at the Riflemaker Gallery called MAEDA: MySPACE exhibits include some of his new work aswell as some works that he has made over the last five years. This exhibition is a must see for anyone interested in interaction design and seeing how creativity & technology can work in perfect harmony.

A Brief description from the Riflemaker Gallery Wesite:
"Now, in his first exhibition in the UK - Maeda:MySpace - John Maeda questions his own creation. Within a living MySpace page, Maeda will renounce the tech-dense, often passive, digital landscape he created, using only a matchstick and a scratchpad to guide him. Riflemaker will host this round-the-clock 'surround', with Maeda firstly live, then beaming in from his control center in Massachusetts, while he explores and explodes ideas about repetition and 'reduction' - personal downsizing - discussed in his recent book The Laws of Simplicity (MIT Press, 2006)"

The exhibition comes down at the end of May 2007
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Also John Maeda is talking at the Design Museum on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - get your tickets before they sell out!