1. John Maeda was born on 1966 and is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft.
13 Facts About John Maeda
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Previously, Maeda served as is Chief Technology Officer of Everbridge from October 2020 through October 2022.
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John Maeda was born in 1966 in Seattle, Washington, where his father owned a tofu factory.
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John Maeda studied Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel Cooper.
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John Maeda has exhibited in one-man shows in London, New York and Paris.
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John Maeda's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Cartier Foundation in Paris.
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John Maeda is formerly Executive Vice President, Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient where he developed the LEAD doctrine for technology products and services.
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John Maeda served on the Board of Directors of consumer electronics company Sonos and global advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy.
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John Maeda was a professor at the MIT Media Lab for 12 years where he fostered a community of designers who could code and engineers who could design called the Aesthetics + Computation Group, and then created the Physical Language Workshop with Henry Holtzman.
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John Maeda resigned from his RISD presidency at the end of 2013 and joined KPCB.
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John Maeda received the 2005 Lucky Strike Designer Award from the Raymond Loewy Foundation.
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John Maeda is married to Kris John Maeda and together they have five daughters.
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Kris and John Maeda worked together on the design consultancy, MAEDASTUDIO.