James Grady
Principal at Design Axl
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Grady is a principal designer and educator with over two decades of interdisciplinary experience, currently leading Design Axl and serving as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Boston University. He blends immersive design, performance, and computation in both his creative practice and research, exemplified by his "Random Actor" project that links human performance to computational design tools. At BU he directs cross-college collaborations and co-teaches Spark! Product Innovation, bringing industry-grade design methods into the classroom. Previously he led design projects for major clients at Fathom and kor group and taught information design at MIT, demonstrating a rare mix of high-profile client work and academic rigor. His MFA from RISD and early background in digital media inform a practice that values prototyping, play, and empirically driven experimentation. Colleagues note his ability to turn speculative ideas into actionable curricula and client deliverables, making universities a laboratory for professional practice.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Graphic Design, MFA, Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of DesignBFA, Digital Media/Photography, BFA, Digital Media/Photography at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Github Skills (8)
pde10
java9
development-environment9
compiler6
editor1
javascript1
electron1
desktop1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
processing/processing
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 29 comments in 1 day
artpdecompilerdesigndevelopment-environment
benfry/processing4
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Processing 4.x releases for Java 17
Contributions:4 commits, 1 issue in 1 day
javajava-17
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