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Bruce Mau, born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1959, studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In 1980 he joined a design group Fifty Fingers. He later joined Pentagram, only to help found Public Good Design and Communications a year later. After this career step, he left to establish his own studio, Bruce Mau Design, where he is currently the creative art director. Mau has held many teaching and advising positions at Universities of Art, Design, and Architecture. Furthermore, he has received many awards, including the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and the Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design. He is recognized for his “innovation in identity articulation, research and conceptual programming, print design and production, environmental signage, and exhibition and product design.
As creative director of Bruce Mau Design, he is in charge of “business strategies, brand identities, exhibits and environments, retail concepts and programs, videos and on-line projects, product inventions, and marketing and communications campaigns.” They focus on suiting customer’s needs in a manner that will allow them to sustain in the future. Before his current business, he worked for Zone Books and I.D. magazine. With Bruce Mau Design, he has done work with 11th Hour, MTV, the Museum of Modern Art, Nokia, and many more. Mau is important to us because he helps companies for an identity for the future.

Mantra:
Begin Anywhere.
I chose this because I always have trouble finding a starting place, and get stressed out when I don’t have a solid idea from the beginning. I think that if I just learn to focus on one idea at a time, no matter what it might be, I can find more opportunities in my work.