I just noticed a rather terse announcement on John Maeda’s blog announcing that he was stepping up as the next president of Rhode Island School of Design. Following a link to RISD itself, I got some more info.
That’s quite a move. Maeda has been a professor at MIT for something like 11 years, working in the Media Lab (hence his book, Maeda @ Media). But, being a follower of his blog, I’ve noticed somewhat of an underlying theme in many of his posts of soul searching about his role at MIT. It will be interesting to see where this new role takes him.