"The Rhode Island School of Design will inaugurate its new president tonight in a ceremony as unassuming and unusual as the person it honors.

John Maeda, 42, a world-renowned graphic designer, artist and computer scientist, will be installed as RISD’s 16th president with a low-key celebration scheduled to last just 3½ hours. As president, Maeda asks everyone to call him John, wears T-shirts instead of suits, blogs daily about his experience and is making his office smaller, because, he says, he doesn’t really need all that space."

Full Story: RISD president to be inaugurated tonight Source: Providence Journal, September 12th, 2008 Author: Jennifer D. Jordan Added on September 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am, by Matt Mikula