"Few digital designers and artists have had the long-term international impact of John Maeda. His work in the print and digital realms has influenced an entire generation of designers. His role as an educator is perhaps even more influential than his design projects but has largely remained out of sight. For seven years Maeda and his students in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab have created some of the most digitally sophisticated and exciting pieces of design to emerge anywhere.
'Creative Code' presents (for the first time outside the laboratory) the most fascinating work produced by the group, arranged into themes that apply to today's most pertinent design issues: information visualization, digital typography, abstraction, interaction design and education. Each section also features brief essays by leading names in the field of interaction and digital design including Casey Reas, David Small, Joshua Davis, Yugo Nakamura and Gillian Crampton Smith." (From the cover text).