Andy Polaine
Random is Good - Biscuit Tin
The good folks over over at magneticNorth have just made another typically mN piece called Biscuit Tin (that’s ‘Cookie Tin’ to you American …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Tim Brown on Serious Play
I would have loved to have gone to the Serious Play conference, but seem to remember it cost serious money too. This talk from Tim Brown of IDEO sums up a great …
The Network Generation is in The White House
Photo: barackobamadotcom on Flickr It is hard to overstate just how different these US elections were and what a shift in thinking Obama and his campaign …
AC/DC ASCII
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Night of the Living Maps
Apart from last night’s making of history it was a night of interactive maps gone wild. The BBC’s virtual studio 3D environment was replete with …
BMW Motorbikes GPS drawing
Great Google Maps created by friends of mine at Ubilabs for BMW Motorbikes GPS Drawing. Take a look at the intro video - the guys are riding through buildings …
Gruber on iPhone-Likeness
Good piece from John Gruber on iPhone-Likeness and why many developers don’t get it when it comes to creating apps that feel iPhone-like: I’ll put forth …
Voting Machines - The Ultimate Interface?
Photo: binkley27 Dan Saffer just wrote an alarming piece about electronic voting over at Kicker Studio and it reminded me of a great article I read recently in …
Taxi Driver With Storyboards
Video loads from YouTube on play — Google's privacy policy applies. There’s a discussion going on over at IxDA about whether an interaction design can …
Peter Polaine
Just a quick note to say if you are here because you are looking for the work of my father, Peter Polaine, the newspaper covering his portrait exhibition with …
The Unfinished Swan
The Unfinished Swan is a still in-development game set in an entirely white world. Instead of splattering the blood of monsters around the walls, the player …
Generative Art
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Your Graphics Cast a Dark Shadow Across All of Your Work
(Via the IxDA list)
Twittering Mad Men
What a weird meta media world we live in. I tweeted that I was off to watch Mad Men only to find this morning that I am being followed on Twitter by Peggy …
Energy Shoes
NTT’s energy-generating shoes (above) are amongst the many similar ideas I had and never did anything about. Sigh. Here’s the proof from 9 years …