Bruce Mao Designs
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- piperboytoy
What do you think of the work? Are they over rated? any of you ever worked for his company before?
just curious
- flavorful0
Link?
- PonyBoy0
I've always been inspired by Mao... my old boss used to semi-worship the guy actually... :)
... good stuff! Are you going to work with them perhaps?
btw... HEYA Piper!!!!
- Mimio0
I think their exhibition work is their strongest. There are much stronger offices out there though.
- Meeklo0
they are good, but I think he is very "inspired" on the early works of Jackie Tao.
I know, I know some will say I'm crazy to compare this, but just look at his early work (before the coca cola era) type, composition, COLORS!!! oh my god.. so similar..
- effort0
i saw his massive change exhibit in chicago a month or so ago. very good and very over-the-top at the same time.
at times, i felt like i was being preached at a bit too much. on the other hand, it was an impressive collection.
Recommended!
- Meeklo0
I thought Jackie Tao's exhibit was in NY...
- Witt0
A deep thinker. I believe he writes speeches for Miss Universe - or Bono. I forgot which.
- madirish0
i love his work. i reference his writing quite a lot when i am looking for excellent concept approaches.
i am pissed i am too old to apply for IWB.
- neue75_bold0
try having to work with him.. he's an ass... as I've mentioned before, he has a stylist on call 24/7... feckin hamburgler...
- madirish0
LOL
he does look like hamburglur! : )neue- you worked with him?
- neue75_bold0
not for him, but had to meet with him a couple times when I was at Concrete, we shared a client, he was doing textiles and we were doing graphics...
- madirish0
dang, that sucks. i would still like to work with him on a project as i respect what i have read of his quite a bit.
that is lame though about the stylist...
- MelC0
Ha! I've had a t-shirt for years that says "Bruce Mau can kiss my ass." I wore it to the opening of Massive Change in Vancouver. It was awesomely inappropriate seeing as the man himself was there! :)
Over rated. Definitely.
- neue75_bold0
I wouldn't buy into his writing/books or lectures too much since I don't think he had a lot to do with any of the above...
but whatevs, you could work with him, for a fee, just like the reverse paid internship program he was trying to initiate...
most of my beef comes from the client side, dealing with old clients of his that explained how he generally neglected their input and were looking to have projects redone shortly after he had 'finished' them...
- madirish0
man, my opinion truly is changing of him.
'his' writings i do like, but i did not know about he is a cock to every one of his clients. that blows.
i was a fan of IWB but really didn't get the the reverse tuition thing either. very odd.
thanks for the insights mang
- neue75_bold0
truthfully, I would take much of what I say with a grain of salt... in general....