Bruce Mau is the President and Creative Director of Bruce Mau Design. Born in 1959, he studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In 1985 he designed Zone 1/2 and founded his studio, Bruce Mau Design Inc. (BMD), in Toronto. Since then, BMD has gained international recognition for innovative, multi-disciplinary work. This work has resulted in long-term creative partnerships with the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), Zone Books (New York), the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and has led to collaborations with the Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), the Netherlands Architecture Institute (Rotterdam), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), among others. The studios expertise includes graphic design, packaging design and production, book design and production, advertising and marketing design, new media design, exhibition and 3D design, and environmental signage programs. From 1991 to 1993, Mau served as Creative Director for I.D. Magazine, and in 1998, he was selected as one of the I.D. Forty. Presently he is the design director of Zone Books, and an editor, with Sanford Kwinter and Jonathan Crary, of Swerve Editions, a Zone imprint. BMD continues to design all Zone publications. Mau co-authored the critically-acclaimed and award winning S,M L,XL with Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. S,M,L,XL exemplifies Maus emphasis on collaboration for the development and integration of content and form. His collaborations also include projects with significant cultural figures such as Frank O. Gehry (Los Angeles), Claes Oldenburg (New York), Michael Snow (Toronto), Douglas Gordon (Glasgow), Terry Winters (New York), Meg Stuart of Damaged Goods (Brussels), and Glen Seator (New York). More recent projects include the development of new identities for the Museums of Antwerp (Antwerp), UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Access Storage Solutions (London), Vizible Software Inc. (Toronto), and the Gagosian Gallery (New York and London). The studio produced Book Machine, an installation for the Laboratorium exhibition at the Antwerpen Open; the conceptual programming for the National Museum of the Mississippi River in New Orleans in association with Tulane University; a new communications strategy for Vitra (Basel); selected environmental graphics for the Air Canada Centre, the new home of Torontos Maple Leafs and Raptors; and a fundraising campaign for the Harbourfronts 25th Anniversary. Current collaborations include environmental signage for Rem Koolhaas/OMAs Seattle Public Library and the Porto Concert Hall in Portugal, and Frank O. Gehrys Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; a graphic installation for Belgian architect Stephane Beels winning competition for a new courthouse in Gent; and STRESS, a multi-media installation with dance philosopher Andre Lepecki and composer John Oswald for the Wiener Festwochen 2000. Most recently, the proposal Tree City, developed in collaboration with Rem Koohaas/OMA, and in association with David Oleson of Oleson Worland Architects and Petra Blaisse of Inside/Outside, won the prestigious Downsview Park international competition, Toronto. Mau has lectured at Columbia University, Harvard University, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York, Washington State University in St. Louis, the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, and the Technische Universitat Berlin. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Ontario College of Art and Design and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. Mau serves on the International Advisory Committee of the Wexner Center and the board of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. Mau is the recipient of the 1998 Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and the 1999 Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design.
