Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

An Audience of Mirrors

Audience is a new installation from rAndom International, with software by Chris O’Shea, for the Deloitte Ignite Festival at the Royal Opera House. 64 …

Enhancing Videos with Spacetime Fusion

This technology from Pravin Bhat over at the University of Washington is pretty impressive. It uses high resolution still images to enhance video footage. It …

Jonathan Harris at Flash on the Beach 08

Jonathan Harris’s talk at Flash on the Beach caused quite a stir this year. Originally titled The Art of Surveillance and Self-Exposure, he altered the …

Last one in the water buys the drinks

Nothing like a bit of animated GIFola. I’ll be at Flash on the Beach this week if anyone fancies catching up to say Hi. I’ll be writing a round-up …

Hector Serrano's Waterdrop

Hector Serrano has finally presented his Waterdrop installation for Roca at 100% Design London. I wish I was there to see it myself. It looks like a stunning …

Cutest Tech Book Cover Ever?

Art is the tonsils of education

I interviewed the renown fantasy illustrator, John Howe, for Desktop last week. I had a great chat with him and he talked about design and art education, some …