Bruce Mau is a Canadian graphic designer born on October 25, 1959.  He is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design (BMD).   Mau studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design, but did not graduate.  He left to join the fifty fingers design group in 1980.  He stayed for a couple of years then he went to Pentagram in the UK. When he returned to Toronto he became part of the founding of Public Good Design and Communication.  Soon after he establish his own strudio Bruce Mau Design (BMD).

Mau has lectured widely across North America and Europe.  He currently serves on the International Committee of the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.

Awards and Honorary:

Chrysler Award for Design Innovation (1998)
Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design (1999)
Honory Doctor of Letter from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver
(2001)