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From 1991 to 1993, he also served as creative director of I.D.
Mau remained the design director of Zone Books until 2004, to which he has added duties as co-editor of Swerve Editions, a Zone imprint. The firm has produced work for the Andy Warhol Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Gagosian Gallery. Zone 1/2: The Contemporary City, a complex compendium of critical thinking about urbanism from philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and Paul Virilio, architects Rem Koolhaas and Christopher Alexander remains one of his most notable works. Soon after, the opportunity to design Zone 1/2 presented itself and he left to establish his own studio, Bruce Mau Design. Returning to Toronto a year later, he became part of the founding triumvirate of Public Good Design and Communications. Mau stayed at Fifty Fingers for two years, before crossing the ocean for a brief sojourn at Pentagram in the UK.
However, before graduation, he left the school to join the Fifty Fingers design group in 1980. He then studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, and he studied advertising under Terry Isles. Mau chose to study art at the advice of the high school art teacher, Jack Smith, who mentored him in his early studies. Mau was born in Pembroke, Ontario, on 25 October 1959 and spent his early years in Sudbury, Ontario. In 2010, Mau left the company and went on to co-found The Massive Change Network in Chicago with his wife, Bisi Williams. In 2003, while still at BMD, he founded the Institute Without Boundaries in collaboration with the School of Design at George Brown College, Toronto. įrom 1985 to 2010, Mau was the creative director of Bruce Mau Design (BMD). Mau is also a professor and has taught at multiple institutions in the United States and Canada. In 2015, he became the Chief Design Officer at Freeman, a global provider of brand experiences. Mau is the Chief Executive Officer of Massive Change Network, a Chicago-based design consultancy he co-founded with his wife, Bisi Williams. He began his career a graphic designer and has since applied his design methodology to architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, education, and conceptual philosophy. Cooper Hewitt National Design Award (2016)īruce Mau RCA D.Litt (born October 25, 1959) is a Canadian designer and educator.