Andy Polaine
The Dramatic Impact of the 'Silent Revolution'
I’m very chuffed to see that ChangeThis selected my thoughts on education to be part of their manifesto the Dramtic Impact of The Silent Revolution. …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
The Art of Peter Polaine
Christmas Dinner - Woodcut I’ve been meaning to post a quick link to my father’s website and online gallery for a while. It’s not totally …
Where to now with multitouch?
I’ve been doing a bit of catching up with my blog reading recently and noticed Chris’s post on Pixelsumo about the HP giant Multi-Touch screen with …
Bad Remote
I saw this at Ray and Rachel’s house the other day. They had stuck the stickers on for Ray’s dad, but the point is that the interface should have …
Pixel popping on the phone
I just had an update from Karl Willis about a project called Twelve Pixels that he has been working on with Dr. Ivan Poupyrev at Sony’s CSL Interaction …
The playfulness of everyday things
As if they had been the perfect students of my Interactivity, Play and the Everyday project at the Bauhaus, art/design cooperative, BCXY have been working on a …
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer talk at the Tate Modern
One of my all-time interactive installation heroes, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is giving an artist’s talk at the Tate Modern tomorrow. He is representing …
Leopard - death of the application?
I assume that most people interested in Apple, operating systems or UI design have seen Steve Jobs’s WWDC07 Keynote by now. He shows off lots of new …
Another Antirom RGB performance
Video loads from YouTube on play — Google's privacy policy applies. I was clearing out some old CDs and found a Videobrasil XII one with this Antirom RGB …
Photosynth
Nice to see Microsoft doing something truly groundbreaking, or at least acquiring something truly groundbreaking. The above demo of Photosynth and Seadragon by …
Wind to Light
A few of you may have already have seen the tiny LED wind turbines recently. Putting lots of them into action onedotzero and riba london have commissioned a …
Zach Lieberman interview on Open Frameworks
There’s an interesting interview with Zach Lieberman by Karl Willis on the Window.nz website. Lieberman talks about his work on the Open Frameworks …
Guardian site hacked or accident?
This story on the protesters at the G8 summit has a set of related links at the bottom of it. I noticed today that the one saying G8, which is meant to link to …
Len Lye biography
Sometimes the Internet really works. Shortly after I wrote a post about Len Lye’s films on You Tube (already bouncing off Dan Hill’s original post) …
Google's Streetview
So I’ve been a bit slow at blogging about Google’s Streetview as well as Microsoft’s Surface. I nearly didn’t write about either of …