Bruce Mau

Fellow

Bruce Mau is the Chairman and CEO of Bruce Mau Design Inc. He founded his studio in 1985, concentrating at first on a single client, Zone Books. Soon his studio was designing projects for an impressive range of international clients that over the years has included the Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Research Institute; Herman Miller; Gehry Partners; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill;
Arizona State University; MTV; Nokia; Samsung; Royal Dutch Shell; and many others.

In 1995, Bruce Mau received considerable attention for the award-winning and critically acclaimed S,M,L,XL. Designed and conceived by Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas, the 1300-page compendium of projects and texts was generated by Pritzker Prize-winning Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture. This was followed in 2000 with Life Style, a book by Mau about his studio's practice. In 2004, Mau launched Massive Change, an ambitious, multi-venue exhibition on the possibilities of design culture. Massive Change was also presented as a book published by Phaidon, a web project, a radical educational experiment, and high profile public events bringing together practitioners from the various disciplines in question. The Massive Change exhibition opened to critical acclaim at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2003, and has since toured to the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

In 2007 Bruce was presented the AIGA Gold Medal in the field of communication design. In addition, Bruce is an Honorary Fellow of the Ontario College of Art and Design and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. He was awarded the Chrysler 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 the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, and he has since received honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Laurentian University.

Bruce and his family moved to Chicago in the summer of 2007, and Bruce Mau Design set up a second office there the same year. Bruce was also named the Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Projects:

Dell Art House Studio Notebooks
Bruce Mau designed one of the three new covers (titled "Healing Patterns") for the Dell Studio 15 and Studio 17 notebooks. For each Studio 15 or Studio 17 notebook purchased with the new covers, Dell will contribute $20 to The Global Fund to Combat AIDS in Africa. To see an image of Healing Patterns, click here.

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