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Bruce Mau (born October 25, 1959) is a Canadians designer and educator. He began his career a graphic designer and has since applied his design methodology to architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, education, and conceptual philosophy. Mau is the chief executive officer of Massive Change Network, a Chicago-based design consultancy he co-founded with his wife, Bisi Williams. In 2015, he became the Chief Design Officer at Freeman, a global provider of brand experiences. Mau is also a professor and has taught at multiple institutions in the United States and Canada.
From 1985 to 2010, Mau was the creative director of Bruce Mau Design (BMD). In 2003, while still at BMD, he founded the Institute Without Boundaries in collaboration with the School of Design at George Brown College, Toronto. In 2010, Mau left the company and went on to co-found Massive Change Network in Chicago with his wife, Bisi Williams. Mau founded Bruce Mau Studio in 2020.
Zone 1/2: The Contemporary City, a complex compendium of critical thinking about urbanism from philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and Paul Virilio, architects Rem Koolhaas and Christopher Alexander remains one of his most notable works. The firm has produced work for the Andy Warhol Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Gagosian Gallery.Fast Company Mau remained the design director of Zone Books until 2004, to which he has added duties as co-editor of Swerve Editions, a Zone imprint.
From 1991 to 1993, he also served as creative director of I.D. magazine. Mau led the redesign of the magazine, which won five National Magazine Awards, with Chee Pearlman as its editor-in-chief.
He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and served on the Herman Miller Design Council from 2008 to 2012.
He has lectured widely across North America and Europe. He served on the International Advisory Committee of the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1998, Mau produced a 43-point program called an "Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" that attempts to help designers and creative folks think about their design process; the manifesto has been widely circulated on the web.http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/39/maumanifesto.html Incomplete Manifesto for growth
In 2004, the government of Guatemala hired Mau to develop a system of cultural optimism to help improve the country's outlook following 36 years of civil war. When introduced, he was described as someone who would "redesign Guatemala", reflecting the ambitious scale of his project. One of his key contributions was the creation of the slogan "Guate! Amala!" (meaning "Love Guate"), a play on words designed to promote national pride. The campaign aimed to highlight positive developments in the country and showcase the efforts of those working to improve it. As part of the initiative, organizers sought to recruit 1,000 volunteers to spread the message, but 20,000 people signed up in the first weekend.
In 2006, he participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions.
In 2010 Bruce Mau and Bisi Williams founded the Massive Change Network.
In the 2010s, Bruce Mau Design was involved in the redevelopment and redesign of Ontario's ONroute service centres. "ONroute in Ontario". Toronto Sun, January 31, 2012.
As of November 19, 2015, Bruce Mau is the Chief Design Officer for Freeman, a brand experience company and service contractor.
In September 2022, Bruce Mau and Bisi Williams undertook a collaboration with the University of New South Wales through the Massive Change Network (MCN). This was called 'Massive Action Sydney' and saw staff and students from the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA) form five 'Renaissance Teams' to collaborate on ways to create Massive Action across some of the most perplexing and wicked challenges of our time. The project and its outcomes are ongoing.
He received the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Collab Design Excellence Award in 2015, in conjunction with an exhibition of his designs. Mau received the Cooper Hewitt 2016, National Design Award for Design Mind, for his impact on design theory, design practice and/or public awareness.
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