Comments on: John Maeda kills his darlings http://www.generatorx.no/20071119/john-maeda-kills-his-darlings/ Software and generative strategies in art and design Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:07:16 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mark Webster http://www.generatorx.no/20071119/john-maeda-kills-his-darlings/comment-page-1/#comment-179069 Mark Webster Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:20:15 +0000 http://www.generatorx.no/20071119/john-maeda-kills-his-darlings/#comment-179069 An interesting read. My thoughts on Maeda (from a journalistic point of view): He is an inspiring man, a brilliant teacher, a far brighter spark than your ordinary Jo, sincere and indeed incredibly simple like the majority of all good mannered social beings we are. Oh, and he's incredibly witty, sharp, with a tinge of measured sarcasm. His humour may not always be clear and that is perhaps a game he plays to defend - Not everything Maeda has to say should be taken as Gospel. An interesting read. My thoughts on Maeda (from a journalistic point of view):

He is an inspiring man, a brilliant teacher, a far brighter spark than your ordinary Jo, sincere and indeed incredibly simple like the majority of all good mannered social beings we are. Oh, and he’s incredibly witty, sharp, with a tinge of measured sarcasm. His humour may not always be clear and that is perhaps a game he plays to defend – Not everything Maeda has to say should be taken as Gospel.

]]> By: Michal Migurski http://www.generatorx.no/20071119/john-maeda-kills-his-darlings/comment-page-1/#comment-178701 Michal Migurski Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:17:15 +0000 http://www.generatorx.no/20071119/john-maeda-kills-his-darlings/#comment-178701 It's still hubris, completely whitewashing the influence of rave visuals, the demo scene, video toasters, Hypercard, video games, television, cinema, fire, and the plain historical inevitability of animated doodads on the web. For Maeda to place himself at the head of this column is pompous windbaggery at its finest. Maeda's thoughts on simplicity read like the rantings of an old man waving his symbolic cane at the kids today, but then again I can't approach them rationally in a book where the author takes personal credit for "dynamic graphics". It’s still hubris, completely whitewashing the influence of rave visuals, the demo scene, video toasters, Hypercard, video games, television, cinema, fire, and the plain historical inevitability of animated doodads on the web. For Maeda to place himself at the head of this column is pompous windbaggery at its finest. Maeda’s thoughts on simplicity read like the rantings of an old man waving his symbolic cane at the kids today, but then again I can’t approach them rationally in a book where the author takes personal credit for “dynamic graphics”.

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