Bruce Mau (born 25 Oct 1959, Sudbury) is a Canadian designer whose work addresses the design culture that permeates all aspects of everyday life and allows human innovation to constantly challenge and recreate its boundaries.
Bruce Mau Design (BMD), a Toronto design studio, has gained wide recognition for a broad range of projects, including identity articulation, research and conceptual programming, print design and production, environmental signage and wayfinding systems, and exhibition and product design.
In 1995 the studio released S,M,L,XL, a 1300-page compendium of projects and texts generated by a joint effort with Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture. In 1998, Mau wrote An Incomplete Manifesto of Growth which exemplified his beliefs, motivations and strategies. Life Style, a monograph on design culture and the work of the studio, was published in 2000.
Recently Mau's studio has extended into dance performances, video installations, and the fields of architecture, urban planning, landscape design.
Bruce studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, but left before graduating to join the Fifty Fingers design group in 1980. He later worked at Pentagram in the UK and went on to found Public Good Design and Communications. In 1985, he founded Bruce Mau Design.
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