23 Facts About Bruce Mau

Bruce Mau was born on October 25,1959 and is a Canadian designer and educator.

Bruce Mau began his career a graphic designer and has since applied his design methodology to architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, education, and conceptual philosophy.

Bruce Mau is a professor and has taught at multiple institutions in the United States and Canada.

In 2010, Bruce Mau left the company and went on to co-found Massive Change Network in Chicago with his wife, Bisi Williams.

Bruce Mau was born in Pembroke, Ontario, on 25 October 1959 and spent his early years in Sudbury, Ontario.

Bruce Mau chose to study art at the advice of the high school art teacher, Jack Smith, who mentored him in his early studies.

Bruce Mau stayed at Fifty Fingers for two years, before crossing the ocean for a brief sojourn at Pentagram in the UK.

Bruce Mau remained the design director of Zone Books until 2004, to which he has added duties as co-editor of Swerve Editions, a Zone imprint.

Bruce Mau led the redesign of the magazine, which won five National Magazine Awards, with Chee Pearlman as its editor-in-chief.

Bruce Mau is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and served on the Herman Miller Design Council from 2008 to 2012.

Bruce Mau has lectured widely across North America and Europe.

Bruce Mau served on the International Advisory Committee of the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.

In 1998, Bruce Mau produced a 43-point program called an "Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" that attempts to help designers and creative folks think about their design process, the manifesto has been widely circulated on the web.

In 2004, the government of Guatemala hired Bruce Mau to develop a system of cultural optimism to help improve the country's outlook following 36 years of civil war.

Bruce Mau was awarded the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation in 1998, and the Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design in 1999.

Bruce Mau is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, since 2006.

Bruce Mau was awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts Medal in 2007.

In 2007, Bruce Mau was in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in the Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Design Objects department.

Bruce Mau received the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Collab Design Excellence Award in 2015, in conjunction with an exhibition of his designs.

Bruce Mau has received many honorary degrees including honorary doctorates from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2001, School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 and Rhode Island School of Design in 2014.

From 1996 to 1999, Bruce Mau was the Associate Cullinan Professor at Rice University's School of Architecture in Houston, Texas.

Since 2009, Bruce Mau has served as a Distinguished Fellow of the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University.

Bruce Mau is married to Aiyemobisi "Bisi" Williams and they have three daughters named Osunkemi, Omalola, and Adeshola.