Author: John Maeda
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: simplicity, life, business, design, laws, technology
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2006-08-21
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0262134721
ISBN-13: 9780262134729

Received an Honorable Mention in the Communication and Cultural Studies category of the 2005 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We’re rebelling against technology that’s too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod’s clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that’s simple and

Author: John Maeda
Publisher: Universe
Keywords: media, maeda
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-09-08
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0789305259
ISBN-13: 9780789305251

"John Maeda deconstructs the digital world with the earned authority of an M.I.T.-trained computer scientist and a card-carrying artist. Being ambidextrous with Eastern and Western cultures, he can see things most of us overlook. The result is a humor and expression that brings out the best in computers and art."--Nicholas NegroponteJohn Maeda is one of the world’s leading experimental graphic designers and is quickly becoming a digital culture icon. His early preoccupation with the intersection of computer programming and digital art has resulted in a fascinating, interactive, and stunn

Author: John Maeda
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: computation, aesthetics, code, creative
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-10-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0500285179
ISBN-13: 9780500285176

A rich compilation of work by some of the most inventive minds in the field of digital design. John Maeda, probably the most important digital designer, educator, and artist working today, created a sensation with maeda@media (2000), which documented his complete oeuvre and laid out his belief in the importance of designers understanding the computer as a medium, not just a tool. Maeda’s work as an educator and director of the Aesthetics + Computation Group (ACG) at the MIT Media Lab has largely remained behind the scenes. For seven years, Maeda and his students—several of whom

Authors:Casey Reas, Ben Fry,  John Maeda,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: designers, artists, visual, handbook, programming, processing
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0262182629
ISBN-13: 9780262182621

It has been more than twenty years since desktop publishing reinvented design, and it’s clear that there is a growing need for designers and artists to learn programming skills to fill the widening gap between their ideas and the capability of their purchased software. This book is an introduction to the concepts of computer programming within the context of the visual arts. It offers a comprehensive reference and text for Processing (www.processing.org), an open-source programming language that can be used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and anyone who wants to

Authors:John Maeda,  Paola Antonelli,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: numbers, design
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0262632446
ISBN-13: 9780262632447

Most art and technology projects pair artists with engineers or scientists: the artist has the conception, and the technical person provides the know-how. John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. Design By Numbers is a reader-friendly tutorial on both the philosophy and nuts-and-bolts techniques of programming for artists. Practicing what he preaches, Maeda composed Design By Numbers using a computational process he developed specifically for the book. He introduces a programm

Author: Martha Maeda
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL)
Keywords: earn, rates, returns, safely, funds, traded, guide, investing, exchange, complete
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1601382901
ISBN-13: 9781601382900

The growth of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in recent years alongside an unprecedented access to investment resources by any individual with a computer has led to a major boost in the market for many of these funds. According to recently released numbers for the 2007 fiscal year, as reported in the Chicago Tribune, there are currently more than $608 billion in assets within ETFs, with almost $400 billion of that in domestically traded assets an increase of almost 40 percent in one year. This book will provide for you a complete guide to both understanding how to invest in Exchange Traded Funds

Author: Martha Maeda
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL)
Keywords: earn, rates, returns, safely, funds, bond, guide, investing, bonds, complete
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1601382936
ISBN-13: 9781601382931

Bonds have long been a stalwart of investment. More than $100 billion was invested in municipal bonds alone in 2006. Now, with the economy a little less certain than it has been in recent decades, the demand for a secure place to invest money has lead to resurgence in interest in the use of bonds for many investors. Because there are many peculiarities in bond investment, you must have a basic understanding of the market, the bond issuer, how to measure rates of return and how to maximize those rates. This book provides anyone who has never invested in bonds before the ideal handbook to start