David Small completed his Ph.D. at the MIT Media Laboratory in 1999, where his research focused on the display and manipulation of complex visual information. This was his third degree from MIT. He began his studies of dynamic typography in three dimensional landscapes as a student of Muriel Cooper, founder of the Visible Language Workshop and later joined the Aesthetics and Computation Group under the direction of John Maeda. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Documenta11, the Centre Pompidou, and the Copper-Hewitt. He is the principal and founder of Small Design Firm, which creates unique interactive information displays all around the world.