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Ge Wang

  • Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA, 94025 United States (map)
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What we make, makes us.

Join Ge Wang, the mastermind behind the internationally acclaimed app, Ocarina, as he takes to the Kepler’s stage for an evening you’ll have to see to believe!

In his new book, Artful Design, Wang issues a manifesto for design. Unlike anything you’ve seen before, this Musicomic treatise lays out a series of thought-provoking and insightful principles to for how to look differently at the world around you.

No matter what you do, you are always in the process of design, whether using a tool or creating something new. Discover how you can bring a new and creative spirit to the simplest and most fundamental aspects of your life and career.

An iconoclastic spirit through-and-through, you won’t want to miss this interactive and exciting evening with one of Stanford’s most inspiring designers!

Ge Wang is a Stanford University Professor of music and computer science. He is a designer of instruments, toys, and games; inventor of the ChucK programming language; and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Ge was Co-Founder of Smule, a Silicon Valley startup that explores music-making via mobile devices, and designer of Magic Piano and Ocarina, an Apple Hall of Fame App.

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