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Holocene Podcast, February 12th, 2023
Bruce Mau has worked as a designer, innovator, educator and author on a broad spectrum of projects in collaboration with the world’s leading brands, organizations…
7 designers on their hopes for the new year
Fast Company, January 2nd, 2023
Designers are in the business of creating a future that looks different than the present. They don’t predict so much as manifest — through thinking and creating…
Bruce Mau on why human-centred design isn’t enough
Creative Review, November 23rd, 2022
There are few designers who have been the subject of a documentary film, but considering Bruce Mau’s track record of big, galvanising ideas, coupled with his motivational…
ADCC Les Usherwood Award Winner
ADCC, November 17th, 2022
Across more than thirty years of design innovation, Bruce has worked as a designer, innovator, educator and author on a broad spectrum of projects in collaboration…
Guru jets in with a design for life
The Times, November 13th, 2022
The creative genius Bruce Mau is in Ireland and gives his take on tackling the planet’s biggest challenges…
Design For Massive Change with Bruce Mau
NXTLVL Experience Design, October 26th, 2022
Across more than thirty years of design innovation, Bruce Mau has worked as a designer, innovator, educator, and author on a broad spectrum of projects…
Designing massive action with Bruce Mau
Design Your Life with Vince Frost, October 10th, 2022
What role does design have to play in creating a successful and liveable world for future generations? And how does life-centred design come into this equation?
Bruce Mau's design for life
ABC RN’s Blueprint For Living, September 16th, 2022
A graphic-designer turned designer of nations gives us the tools to design for life… plus a chance to decode the language of power in royal fashion…
AN speaks with Bruce Mau about a new film on his work and why he has hope for the future
The Architect's Newspaper, August 17th, 2022
After a [MAU] screening, AN met with Mau to discuss his legacy and what design can do in the face of the world’s seemingly insurmountable problems…
BRUCE MAU INTERVIEWED BY MIA FUNK & BRUCE PIASECKI
The Creative Process Podcast, August 15th, 2022
It goes back to that being lost, training yourself to be lost, and it seems like one of the great challenges, not just for a designer, but just for everyone…
Navigating the Endless Forest: Documenting the Massive Influence of Bruce Mau
Newcity Design, August 3rd, 2022
Directed by Austrian filmmakers Benji and Jono Bergmann, “MAU” premiered at South By Southwest in May of last year, and recently screened at the Siskel Film Center…
Bruce Mau: A Life of Ideas
The Grand Tourist with Dan Rubinstein, July 20th, 2022
In a world seemingly gone mad, optimism can be in short supply. On this episode, Dan speaks with groundbreaking visionary Bruce Mau…
Bruce Mau Makes the Case That We’re All Designers
Architectural Record, June 29th, 2022
There’s something undeniably cinematic about designer Bruce Mau. Many things, actually: his work, his bearing, his personality…
Mau calls for fact-based optimism and emotional connections to guide design moving forward
The Business of Furniture, June 22nd, 2022
The office cubicle has come to represent misery to most in our society and over the years, and much has changed in office design to better cater to the humans…
Why celebrated designer Bruce Mau is betting on a new kind of Renaissance
Fast Company, June 22, 2022
In 1418, the city of Florence held a competition to build a dome over its cathedral. Filippo Brunelleschi’s octagonal dome made history as the first to be built without a temporary supporting frame…
Design Professionals of Canada Fellows
DesCan, June 8th, 2022
Fellowship is awarded by DesCan to a designer who, by accomplishment or influence, has made a major contribution to graphic/communication design in Canada…
Bruce Mau wants to do nothing. If that doesn’t work, he’ll redesign everything
The Architect's Newspaper, June 1, 2022
On Friday the 13th under a nearly full moon during a buzzing tenth-anniversary edition of NYCxDESIGN, the city’s cognoscenti gathered for a packed screening…
Bruce Mau: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards
The New York Times, May 19th, 2022
A new film about the celebrated graphic designer follows his career as the scale of his projects goes from small to extra large to global…
Inspiring Bruce Mau documentary reveals a visionary designer at odds with the political world
The Globe and Mail, May 19th, 2022
Documentary by the Austrian filmmaking brothers Benji and Jono Bergmann about Canadian designer Bruce Mau does not indulge in hagiography…
Q&A: Bruce Mau Discusses a New Documentary and Forthcoming Projects
Metropolis Mag, May 17th, 2022
MAU, a documentary about the category-defying designer’s life, premiered in New York City during NYCxDESIGN…
How Bruce Mau Turned Design, and the World, On Its Head
The Tyee, May 16th, 2022
‘The present day is the best time in human history to be alive and working,’ the design visionary declares…
Bruce Mau: the world-class designer whose work continues to endure
The Guardian, May 12th, 2022
In a new documentary, the Canadian designer’s life and career is explored with refreshing optimism, leading to lessons for us all…
LEXUS DESIGN AWARD 2022 Grand Prix Winner Announced
Mirage News, May 12th, 2022
Lexus announced today that “Rewind” by Poh Yun Ru has been selected by the judging panel as the Grand Prix winner of the 2022 LEXUS DESIGN AWARD…
Bruce Mau Says Design the Time of Your Life
The Creative Factor, May 11th, 2022
From Mecca to MOMA, from Guatemala to Coca Cola, Bruce Mau has had an extraordinary career…
5 principles for how design can change the world
Design and Architecture Norway, April 20th, 2022
Meet Bruce Mau - a visionary design legend who believes that design is the world's most powerful force…
innovation and societal progress; a double-edged sword
The Tntra Podcast, April 10th, 2022
Mehul Desai and Bruce Mau talk about “Innovation and Societal Progress” in this episode…
First Things First Podcast
Frontier, March 31st, 2022
Paddy Harrington, host of the First Things First design podcast, interviews Bruce Mau about his book…
CBC/Radio Canada
CBC Radio, March 30th, 2022
Bruce Mau in conversation with Morning North host Markus Schwabe on Sudburian radio…
Cynicism is easy: Can we still find some optimism in these difficult times?
The Journal.ie, March 4th, 2022
A new documentary about Mau – called, simply, Mau – is being screened this weekend at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival…
Asia’s Premier Design Event Welcomed World-Famous Designers
Designboom, January 21st, 2022
Among the livestreamed panel sessions, 80 big names of the design field took part in the talks…
Applying Bruce Mau’s Life-Centered Design to Diplomacy
Diplomatic Diary, December 12th, 2021
Bruce Mau started out as a graphic designer but came to realize that design isn’t just a way to arrange things…
Fight from the inside-out or boycott brands? How graphic designers shape a more sustainable and ethical food system
It’s Nice That, November 25th, 2021
As the individuals who create systems and visualise our culinary choices, do designers have a responsibility…
Interview with Bruce Mau: Life-CentEred Design
Touchpoint, November 16th, 2021
Recently, Touchpoint publisher Prof. Birgit Mager sat down with design pioneer Bruce Mau…
Bruce Mau talks: from life-centered design, to events for preferable futures
Medium, September 16th, 2021
I have followed with great gusto Bruce’s rapidly paced development from design leader…
Sustainable Design Tour issue
Plus81 Magazine, June 21st, 2021
Bruce Mau made a big splash in people’s awareness of environmental issues facing society today…
All designers are futurists: Why Bruce Mau still believes design can change the world
Fast Company, March 18th, 2021
A new documentary looks at the career and vision of designer Bruce Mau…
Maxwell Anderson Interviews Bruce Mau
Art Scoping podcast, February 27, 2021
In this interview, Maxwell Anderson, president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, talks with Mau…
How to Design the World
The Washington Spectator, February 24, 2021
Bruce Mau began his career as a graphic designer. While graphic design continues to be an important part of his practice, he was never happy...
WILL NOVOSEDLIK REFLECTS ON THE YEAR WE’LL NEVER FORGET
Applied Arts Magazine, January 4, 2021
Well, I saved the best for last. If David Carson is the Keith Richards of graphic design, Bruce...
Urbis long read: Bruce Mau
Urbis, August 7, 2019
Before the Canadian designer and co-founder of Massive Change Network presents at the Future of the Future 2019 series in Auckland, Urbis...
The Spinoff: The problems of today will be solved by the tools of tomorrow
The Spinoff, August 5, 2019
Bruce Mau believes that far from being a hopeless-case, the future of the planet is in safe hands...
Dare to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective
The Walrus, March 1, 2019
In the cover story of the February edition of The Walrus, Bruce Mau explicates an enticing...
Canadian Business Leaders Must Enable A Culture of Creativity and Collaboration to Survive In the New World of Work
Markets Insider, January 18, 2018
“Historically, the workplace was designed to prevent communication,” commented Bruce Mau...
HOW TO FOSTER MASSIVE CHANGE
DESIGNerd, January 2, 2018
Bisi Williams, co-founder of Massive Change Net-work with Bruce Mau, shares her expert advice on how to foster change through collaboration...
University of Iowa Pursuing Innovation Center
The Gazette, November 14, 2017
During a University of Iowa workshop with an inter-national leader in design and innovation thinking, Iowa City Area Development Group President...
Inspired and Well Attired: The EDIT Expo and Gala Needs No Corrections
PressReader, October 14, 2017
An abandoned soap factory off the beaten track might not seem like the most obvious place to...
Shanti Bhavan features at Toronto design festival
Mint, October 23, 2017
Earlier this month, an abandoned soap factory in Toronto morphed into a living, breathing space bursting with design innovations. This 10-day...
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Bruce Mau Is Designing Away Our Worries
Sharp Magazine, September 25, 2017
Though “creative” can be an obtuse job title, in Bruce Mau’s case it’s the only word that really does his full spectrum of work justice. After starting...
Six Highlights of Toronto’s Upcoming Design Festival
The Globe and Mail, September 26, 2017
Toronto’s Design Exchange museum’s coming 10- day festival, EDIT, aims to speak to a larger part of the population, with its something-for-everyone...
Why We Love the Art We Love: Bruce Mau on the Influence of a Teacher
The Globe and Mail, December 11, 2015
Globe Arts editor Jared Bland talks to designer Bruce Mau about his childhood, enterprise design...
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Massively Thought Provoking
Chicago Tribune, September 24, 2006
If you want to know how the super-soaker water gun is shaping today’s weapons or how people in the Third World can now pop a high-technology straw...
Bruce Mau Translates the Power of Design
Next City, February 18, 2016
I recently had a chance to speak with Bruce Mau, an eminent Canadian designer and the founder of Bruce Mau Design and the Chicago-based...
Bruce Mau on Optimism and Why Designers Thrive in an Upside-Down World
Curbed, November 18, 2015
By definition, design is an optimistic profession. But Bruce Mau, an Ontario-born optimist and...
Philly Art Museum recognizes Bruce Mau, visionary designer — of ideas
National Arts Program November 13, 2015
Every year, the Philadelphia Museum of Art gives its Design Excellence Award to a visionary architect...
Bruce Mau Exhibited and Honored By Philadelphia Museum of Art
Graphic Design USA, November 13, 2015
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibi-tion celebrating the achievements of designer...
Work on What You Love: Bruce Mau Rethinking Design
e-flux, November 13, 2015
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhi-bition celebrating the achievements of a renowned designer and author. Work on What You Love...
24 Hours 2 Massive Change with Bruce Mau
The Philadelphia Citizen, November 30, 2015
To understand, just a little, about legendary design-er and thinker Bruce Mau, consider for a moment this idea he touts as part of his Massive Change...
PMA Exhibit Organized by Hiller Features Gehry collaborator
Chestnut Hill Local, December 16, 2015
Architects design buildings and spaces, but they are dependent upon people seeing their creations and understanding their meaning and use. Bruce...
Design Thinking on Exhibit
Convene Magazine, January 20, 2016
“It’s almost like when the cool kid at school likes you — and you can’t quite believe it.” That’s how Carrie Freeman Parsons, vice chair of Freeman...
Bruce Mau Leads Design Brainstorm by Encouraging Leaps in Thought
Chicago Tribune, April 22, 2015
Even when dressed in all black, the universal uni-form of serious and somber, Bruce Mau can’t...
MEET BRUCE MAU. HE WANTS TO REDESIGN THE WORLD.
WIRED, September 12, 2009
Bruce Mau sat on a stage in the ballroom of New York’s Grand Hyatt hotel, accompanied by Marc Mathieu, a senior vice-president of Coca-Cola...
What design can do 2017
What Design Can Do, July 7, 2017
Design visionary and founder of Massive Change Network, Bruce Mau, (NL) speaking at What Design Can Do Live Amsterdam 2017...
Chicago humanities festival
Chicago Humanities Festival, December 4, 2014
Since his triumphant MCA exhibition “Massive Change,” Bruce Mau has continued to push the boundaries of design. Leaving behind his early...
Chicago Ideas Festival
Chicago Ideas, January 7, 2013
Design is one of the world’s most powerful forces, but has it become a “dark art?” Bruce Mau is shift-ing the paradigm on how we think about the...