search aaron marcus born 1943 05 22 22 may 1943 age 73 omaha nebraska residence berkeley california citizenship united states nationality usa fields analysis cross cultural communication design evaluation graphic design human computer interaction information design information visualization mobile technology planning research testing training usability user experience user interface visual design alma mater princeton university ba physics 1965 yale university school of art and architecture graphic design bfa mfa 1968 notable awards aiga fellow member chi academy icograda graphic design hall of fame master graphic designer of the 20th century aaron marcus born 22 may 1943 1 is an american user interface and information visualization designer as well as a computer graphics artist . contents 1 biography 2 work 3 articles and papers 4 books 5 honors 6 notes 7 external links biography edit marcus was always interested in both science and technology as well as visual communication . he grew up in omaha nebraska in the 1950s he was interested in astronomy and paleontology and drawing cartoons . he learned painting and calligraphy . in secondary school he studied science and art and was editor of his high school newspaper . 2 he obtained his ba in physics at princeton university in 1965 . he obtained his bfa and mfa in 1968 at yale university s school of art and architecture . he learned about painting drawing printmaking and letterpress printing workshops informally photography and art history . he also learned about book design calligraphy color graphic design drawing film making printing printmaking painting typography and photography . at yale while a design graduate student he also began the study of computer graphics taking a course in basic functioning of computers and he learned fortran programming at the yale computer center in the summer of 1966 . work edit in 1967 marcus spent a summer making ascii art as a researcher at at & t s bell laboratories in murray hill new jersey . from 1968 to 1977 in the school of architecture and urban planning and in the visual arts program he taught at princeton university color computer art computer graphics concrete visual poetry environmental graphics exhibit design graphic design history philosophy of design visual communication information design information visualization layout publication design systematic design semiotics semiologie typography and visual design . in 1969 71 he programmed a prototype desktop publishing page layout application for at & t bell labs . in 1971 73 he claims to have programmed some of the first virtual reality art design spaces ever created while a faculty member at princeton university . in the early 1980s he was a staff scientist at lawrence berkeley laboratory in berkeley as well as a faculty member of the university of california at berkeley s college of environmental design . 3 in 1982 he founded aaron marcus and associates inc. am a a user interface design and consulting company one of the first such independent computer based design firms in the world . articles and papers edit mr. marcus has written over 250 articles some of which have been published in trade journals . a selection of his published papers follows marcus aaron . playing with type the work of chang sik kim . forward in typogram visual pun exhibition book doo sung design gallery publishers seoul south korea 26 march 6 april 2011 in english korean and chinese pp. 31 35 . marcus aaron . diagrams past present and future an introduction in gauguin jan designing diagrams making information accessible through design . amsterdam bis publishers isbn 978 90 6369 228 5 2011 pp. 6 7 . marcus aaron . branding the user experience . on the edge column user experience magazine . 10 3 3rd quarter 2011 p. 30 . marcus aaron and gould emilie . conducting a culture audit for saudi arabia multilingual issue 120 22 4 june 2011 pp. 42 46 . marcus aaron and jean j r mie . green machine designing mobile information displays to encourage energy conservation . information design journal 17 3 2010 pp. 233 243 . marcus aaron . branding the user experience . on the edge column user experience magazine . 10 3 3rd quarter 2011 p. 30 . marcus aaron . ux storytelling . book review user experience magazine . 10 1 1st quarter 2011 p. 30 . marcus aaron my journey from physics to graphic design to user interface information visualization design in alexberg mel ed . educating artists for the future learning at the intersections of art science technology and culture chicago il university of chicago press spring 2008 192 pp . global intercultural user interface design in jacko j. and spears a. eds . chapter 18 handbook of human computer interaction third edition . new york ny lawrence erlbaum publishers 2007 pp. 355 380 . the sun rises in the east fast forward column interactions 14 6 november december 2007 pp. 44 45 books edit mr. marcus has written co written six books . here is a selection baecker ron and marcus aaron . human factors and typography for more readable programs . reading addison wesley longman 1990 . marcus aaron . graphic design for electronic documents and user interfaces . reading addison wesley longman 1992 . marcus aaron smilonich nick and thompson lynne . the cross gui handbook for multiplatform user interface design . reading addison wesley longman 1994 . marcus aaron anxo cereijo roba and riccardo sala . mobile tv customizing content and experience . london springer 2010 . honors edit the association for computing machinery acm special interest group for computer human interaction sigchi elected aaron marcus in 2008 to its highest honor the chi academy . he has also been named a distinguished engineer by the acm 2011 4 the american institute of graphic arts aiga through its center for cross cultural design named aaron marcus an aiga fellow beginning june 2007 . the international council of graphic design associations icograda included aaron marcus in its publication masters of the 20th century published in 2000 . notes edit aaron marcus . contemporary authors online . detroit gale . 2008 . chapter for alexenberg mel 2007 . educating artists in a digital age . uk intellect publishing . http www.informationdesign.org special marcus interview.php http awards.acm.org homepage.cfm awd 157 external links edit aaron marcus and associates am a home page information design special aaron marcus interview web2 expo aiga hci international 2011 authority control worldcat identities viaf 105090123 isni 0000 0001 1695 7227 sudoc 155298119 bnf cb165434413 data ulan 500109979 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aaron marcus & oldid 718330163 categories 1943 birthsyale university alumniprinceton university alumni 1960 69human computer interactionliving peopleamerican businesspeopleamerican graphic designerscomputer graphicsvisualization graphic user interfaceshidden categories wikipedia articles with viaf identifierswikipedia 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