S1 E4 of Aichaku Podcast / Craig Kanarick × John Maeda

Co-founder of Razorfish, Craig Kanarick, shares his thoughts about how the Web was and how it became. He also introduces us to his philosophy on hybrid designer/developers, his love for creativity as being more than defined in just one way, and he tells us how he started out with his first job out of college as a consultant to Tangent in the construction of the first clickable banner ad on the Internet.

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Craig Kanarick on the Origins of Razorfish

Me and Craig Kanarick — CEO of New York Cruise Lines, Inc. and co-founder of Razorfish.

Co-founder of Razorfish, Craig Kanarick, shares his thoughts about how the Web was and how it became. He also introduces us to his philosophy on hybrid designer/developers, his love for creativity as being more than defined in just one way, and he tells us how he started out with his first job out of college as a consultant to Tangent in the construction of the first clickable banner ad on the Internet.

Key related links to visit are the firstbannerad.com to view how the Tangent made clickable advertising cool, Razorfish’s first 20 clients, Razorfish’s main page, and the NY Botanical Garden piece.

Type in 3-d arranged as floating in a black sea of darkness.
Information Landscapes-inspired early web page by Kanarick
Type in 3-d arranged as floating in a black sea of darkness.
Detail of image when clicking on “Products” …
Muriel Cooper and her Information Landscapes vision from the 90s.

As a small courtesy, past links to PDFs will be sent to you soon after you sign up! —@johnmaeda

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