David Small completed his Ph.D. at the MIT Media Laboratory in 1999, where his
research focused on the display and manipulation of complex visual
information.
This was his third degree from MIT. He began his studies of dynamic typography
in three dimensional landscapes as a student of Muriel Cooper, founder of the
Visible Language Workshop and later joined the Aesthetics and Computation Group
under the direction of John Maeda. His thesis, Rethinking the Book, examined how
digital media, in particular the use of three-dimensional and dynamic
typography, will change the way designers approach large bodies of
information. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Documenta11,
the Centre Pompidou, and the Copper-Hewitt. He is the principal and founder of Small Design Firm.
Firm bios coming soon