Andy Polaine
onedotzero MTV Bloom
onedotzero and MTV Europe are running a competition called Bloom in a bid to find fresh creative talent from across the globe. They’re looking for …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Yahoo! Mail Championships
A few months ago I spent a very fun couple of weeks doing some work for the folks over at Poke where my friend (and ex-Antiromer) Nik Roope is one of the …
Googlemap of Design Books
Markus Dressen has laid out a selection of his favourite books and created a Googlemap of them. Most of them are design and art books and provide an …
The War on Blogs
Now that large corporations like Dell have started to ‘get’ blogs since the various Dell Hell blog posts started panning their stock price it …
Top Hat and a Tail
So of course Greyworld’s Andrew Shoben couldn’t let me name-check Antirom on YouTube without sending me one of his own. This one of him wearing a …
Funtain - bad name, nice idea
I hate the name, but Funtain is a nice idea. It plays with water and sound and plugs into those strong childhood memories of playing with water. Thanks to Karl …
Antirom Performance
I love YouTube, it really is becoming the archive of the world. Here’s a bit of the RGB performance Nic Roope, Joe Stephenson and I did when we were at …
Pixelsumo links
Rather than cross-posting from my Bauhaus blog, I just want to point you in the direction of a post with some very good links on interactivity, environments and …
The Black Box Interface
As most of us know, phones don’t make brilliant music players or games machines. Sure, they can do that stuff, but the 0 to 9 buttons, tiny screen and …
Playful Interactivity
I have just read great paper called Adding Playful Interaction to Public Spaces by Amnon Dekel et al. from The Hebrew University Jerusalem and The Bezalel …
What's in a name?
] Okay, this has nothing to do with the usual subject matter of this blog, but it was far too amusing not to post. A long time ago my family started looking …
Bauhaus Blog
Not really a post that may be of interest to lots of you, but I have started a new blog for those of you who are/will be my students from the Bauhaus (or anyone …
The Changing Nature of Play
I just stumbled upon Matt Locke’s post about play and technology, which is very much worth a read if you are interested in the intersection of play, …
Line Rider
Line Rider is possibly one of the coolest toys I have come across for some time since SodaConstructor or some of Fabrica’s toys. It’s a really …
An Interface Too Far
I was interested to see this video on YouTube for the BumpTop interface that mimics a ‘real’ desktop. Interested but disappointed. The whole idea …