Quotes by John Maeda - Page 2

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Art
Design
Ethos
Teach
Attempt
Challenge
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The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Balance
Looks
Tree
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How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Cities
Progress
What Matters
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Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Design
Graduates
Students
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We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Experience
Chemicals
Equations
Forget
Human Experience
Innovation
Kind
Linked
Way
Always New Way
Come
Experience New Way
Directly
Either
Human
Indirectly
Place
Some
Sciences
Seem
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I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Computers
Design
Dishes
Growing Up
People
Good Design Always
Dead
Cleaner
Designed
Grow Up
Spoon
Vacuum
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There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Computer
Exhaustion
Infinite
Machines
Programming
Way
Construct
Enables
Loop
Wrong Thing
Operate
Perpetuity
Tiring
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Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Art
Believe
Enjoy Life
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Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of quality. Once people are exposed to quality, they recognize it right away and they appreciate it. People's tastes are changed by exposure to quality. Unless they can see it they can't want it. That's the brilliance of Apple - they provide quality in design.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Art
Appreciate
School
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A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the act of turning a page.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Book
Pieces
Skills
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What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Art
Technology
Thinking
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Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.
John Maeda / Graphic Designer
Competition
Focus
Thinking
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