A “high-tech humanist” who provides “rapid, straight-to-the-bloodstream access to his mental life” is how The Boston Globe Magazine and The New York Times Magazine, respectively, described President John Maeda this Sunday. In its “Best of the New” issue, the Globe cited his Twitter feed and our digital bulletin boards as examples of the president’s advances toward making RISD a truly open campus. The Times’ Virginia Heffernan, a confirmed “TED addict,” singled out “Simplicity Patterns,” President Maeda’s 2007 TED talk, as one of her favorites. (On the same site you can also watch this more recent Maeda presentation: “My journey in design, from tofu to RISD“.)