- Bruce Mau
[
Bruce Mau Designs to promote the Ontariogreenbelt )] Bruce Mau (bornOctober 25 ,1959 in Sudbury,Ontario ) is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director ofBruce Mau Design , and the founder of theInstitute without Boundaries .Bruce Mau studied at the
Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, but left prior to graduation in order to join theFifty Fingers design group in 1980. He stayed there for two years, before crossing the ocean for a brief sojourn at Pentagram in the UK. Returning to Toronto a year later, he became part of the founding triumvirate ofPublic Good Design and Communications . Soon after, the opportunity to designZone 1/2 presented itself and he left to establish his own studio, Bruce Mau Design. Bruce remained the design director ofZone Books until 2004, to which he has added duties as co-editor of Swerve Editions, a Zone imprint. From 1991 to 1993, he also served as Creative Director ofI.D. magazine .From 1996 to 1999 Bruce Mau was the Associate Cullinan Professor at
Rice University School of Architecture inHouston . He has also been a thesis advisor at theUniversity of Toronto ’sFaculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design ; artist in residence atCalifornia Institute of the Arts ; and a visiting scholar at theGetty Research Institute inLos Angeles . He has lectured widely across North America and Europe, and currently serves on the International Advisory Committee of theWexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.In addition, Bruce is an Honorary Fellow of the
Ontario College of Art & Design and a member of theRoyal Canadian Academy of Arts . He was awarded theChrysler Award for Design Innovation in 1998, and the Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design in 1999. In 2001 he received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from theEmily Carr Institute of Art and Design inVancouver .Bruce Mau participated in the
Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2006.Bruce Mau is married to Bisi Williams Mau.
As of 2007, Mau was in residence at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in the Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Design Objects Department.
ee also
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List of AIGA medalists
*Massive Change References
* "
S,M,L,XL " withRem Koolhaas (1995) ISBN 0-7148-3827-6
* "Life Style" (2000) ISBN 1-885254-01-6
* "Massive Change" (2004) ISBN 0-7148-4401-2
*"Eye", No. 15, Vol. 4, Winter 1994. [http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=46]External links
* [http://www.brucemaudesign.com/ Bruce Mau Design Inc.] Mau's Toronto-based design studio
* [http://www.institutewithoutboundaries.com Institute without Boundaries]
* [http://www.massivechange.com Massive Change] BMD's Massive Change Project.
* [http://www.massivechangeinaction.virtualmuseum.ca/ Massive Change In Action] The Massive Change educational project.
* [http://www.stockexchangeofvisions.org/speaker.php?id=44 Stock Exchange Of Visions: Visions of Bruce Mau (Video Interviews)]
* [http://www.zonebooks.org/ Zone Books]
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