Ben Fry

Benjamin Fry (born 1975) is an American designer with expertise in data and information visualization.

Early life and education Fry was born in 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fry received a Bachelor of Arts (BFA) in communication design, minor in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received Master's degree and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees from the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, under the direction of John Maeda. His doctoral dissertation, "Computational Information Design" introduces the seven stages of visualizing data: acquiring, parsing, filtering, mining, representing, refining and interacting. The Processing design environment developed together with Casey Reas won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005.

Fry's artwork has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial (2003, 2006) He is the winner of the 2011 National Design Award in category "Interaction Design".

Books 2007: (with Casey Reas) Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, MIT Press 2007: Visualizing Data, O'Reilly 2010: (with Casey Reas) Getting Started with Processing, O'Reilly 2015: (with Casey Reas and Lauren McCarthy) Getting Started with p5.js, O'Reilly