Doctor's Note

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

Culture Design Education Interactivity Play Research

Analogue In, Digital Out

I just read Brendan Dawes’s new book, Analogue In, Digital Out, in one day. A day when I was teaching all day too. I even stayed up late to finish it. …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
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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 …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
Advertising Design General Web Work

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 …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
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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 interesting …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
Blogging blogs Culture politics

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 …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
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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 …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
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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 …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine