Ben Fry
American data visualisation designer; co-created Processing, runs the studio Fathom.
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- Ben Fry is an American designer working with data, born in 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- At the MIT Media Lab he and Casey Reas began Processing, a programming language and environment for visual artists and designers.
- He is a principal of Fathom, a design and software studio in Boston.
- He wrote Visualizing Data (2007) and won the 2011 National Design Award for Interaction Design.
Key facts
- Born
- 1975, Ann Arbor, Michigan1
- Created
- Processing, with Casey Reas (from 2001); Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica (2005)1
- Studio
- Principal, Fathom Information Design, Boston1
- Books
- Visualizing Data (2007); Processing: A Programming Handbook (2007, with Reas); Getting Started with Processing (2010); Getting Started with p5.js (2015)1
- Education
- BFA, Carnegie Mellon University; MS and PhD, MIT Media Lab1
- Award
- National Design Award, Interaction Design (2011)1
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