Design by Numbers
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Design by Numbers
By (Author) John Maeda
Foreword by Paola Antonelli
MIT Press Ltd
MIT Press
24th August 2001
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Internet and digital media: arts and performance
Programming and scripting languages: general
006.6
Winner of Honorable Mention, 2000, American Association of Museums (AAM) publication competition 2000
Physical Properties
Paperback
250
Width 254mm, Height 254mm, Spine 19mm
1134g
Description
This text shows how to use the computer as an artistic medium in its own right. The author introduces a programming language and development environment, available on the Web, which can be downloaded or run directly within any JAVA-enabled Web browser. The language, called DBN, has very few commands and consists of elements resembling those of other languages, such as LISP, LOGO, C/JAVA and BASIC. The first half of the book places minimal emphasis on mathematics. The second half uses intermediate mathematical concepts that generally do not go beyond high-school algebra.
Reviews
"This may well be the first software manual that you'd actually volunteer to have lying around on your coffee table." - Liz Bailey, The Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
John Maeda is the Associate Director, Sony Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences/Associate Professor of Design and Computation, and Director of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab. With his wife, Kris Maeda, he runs a design studio in Lexington, Massachusetts.
