If Design's No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?An artist, graphic designer, computer scientist, and educator, John Maeda is president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Prior to that, he served as associate director of research at MIT Media Lab. Named one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire, Maeda received the AIGA Medal in 2010 and his art is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. When
