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I have 3 normal books out. The first is Design By Numbers, from MIT Press and MAEDA@MEDIA from Rizzoli/Thames & Hudson. If you think they cost too much, they are available in used form quite inexpensive now so you might want to consider that option. A person in London once approached me and said, "If you think they are too expensive, why did you let the publisher make them so expensive?" I never thought of this. I'll think of this in the future. A new book entitled Creative Code is now available as well.

Before I came to MIT, I started a series of books called Reactive Books. The books are small print pieces accompanied by software that corresponds to the topic. One is about sound, one is about time, one is about the keyboard, and one is about the mouse. There was a fifth books lated for publishing about video but that never made it out. One day I plan to put it on the web. The Reactive Books are no longer published and not available from the publisher either. The publisher was Naomi Enami. A truly amazing man, gifted with a vision and strength to do anything out of the ordinary. Mr. Enami became physically ill and no longer is able to fight the battles he once fought. He is one of my inspirations.

I have a variety of work archived online at my personal site M A E D A S T U D I O. There are some misconceptions that MAEDASTUDIO is a large company. It is not. It is the name I give for my desk at home. I work alone. I think of it sort of like being a painter that actually paints his own paintings (which is not so common as you might imagine).