2011 National Design Awards: Interaction Design Award - Ben Fry

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Channel: Cooper Hewitt · 2011 · Education

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The winner of the 2011 Interaction Design Award is Ben Fry.

Ben pursues a long-held fascination with visualizing data and creating tools for interaction design, most notably Processing, co-developed with Casey Reas. Ben has developed software, printed works, installations, and books that depict and explain topics from the human genome to the evolution of text documents. 

The Interaction Design Award is given to an individual or firm for the innovative design of digital technology.

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