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The leafy Rhode Island School of Design, a global leader in arts education, is buzzing about its new president: the freewheeling, commercially aware digital theorist and world-reknowned graphic designer John Maeda - a man as happy at Reebok as MoMA.
Writer: Ann Marie Gardner Photographer: Katherine Wolkoff
Rhode Island
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