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Aaron Marcus | |
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| Born | (1943-05-22)22 May 1943 (age 82) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | User interface and information visualization analyst/designer |
| Awards | AIGA Fellow, MemberCHI Academy, ICOGRADA Graphic Design Hall of Fame Master Graphic Designer of the 20th Century |
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| Alma mater | Princeton University, BA, Physics, 1965 Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, Graphic Design, BFA, MFA, 1968 |
Aaron Marcus (born 22 May 1943) is an American user-interface and information-visualization designer, and a computer graphics artist.
Marcus grew up inOmaha, Nebraska, in the 1950s. In secondary school he studied both science and art, and was editor of his high-school newspaper.[1]
He graduated with an A.B. in physics fromPrinceton University in 1965 after completing a senior thesis.[2] He obtained BFA and MFA in 1968 atYale University School of Art and Architecture.
At Yale he also began the study ofcomputer graphics, taking a course in basic functioning of computers, and he learned FORTRAN programming at the Yale Computer Center in the summer of 1966.[citation needed]
In 1967, Marcus spent a summer makingASCII art as a researcher at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories inMurray Hill, New Jersey.[citation needed]
From 1968 to 1977, Marcus taught atPrinceton University in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and in the Visual Arts Program.
In 1969-1971, he programmed a prototype desktop publishing page-layout application for AT&T Bell Labs, and in 1971-1973, while a faculty member at Princeton, he claims to have programmed some of the first virtual reality art/design spaces.[citation needed]
In the early 1980s, he was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, as well as a faculty member of theUniversity of California at Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.[3]
In 1982, he foundedAaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A), a user-interface design and consulting company, one of the first such independent, computer-based design firms.
Marcus has written over 250 articles, some of which have been published in trade journals. A selection of his published papers follows:
Marcus has written/co-written six books. Here is a selection:
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