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Storytelling for Designers
As a design educator I watch and read a lot of project presentations. I worked out the other day that I must have seen at least 2,000-3,000 student projects in …
Students, Ideas & Prototyping
While perusing Nicolas Nova’s post on Prototyping session with post-its and cardboard at EPFL I followed his link to Stickers on Boxes, a …
Designers are not researchers: the difference between design and social research
Designers are not researchers: the difference between design and social research from Sam Ladner is worth a read by all designers engaging in this kind of work. …
The Naked Sheep
I probably don’t blog about my students’ work enough, but this piece I particularly like because it was a collaboration between students who are …
Without Design Methods, I Feel Like I Am Cheating
Without Design Methods, I Feel Like I Am Cheating - another cracking post from Jon Kolko. This one is close to my heart because I teach design methods on …
Entrepreneur designers in final form
Entrepreneur designers in final form - Liz Danzico has posted a thorough set of links to SVA’s IxD MA (@svaixd) brilliant course (in Europe we would say …
Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving
Serendipitously, given my previous post, I’ve just seen that Jon Kolko has put out a new book called, Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving that focuses …
Design Research: What Is It and Why Do It?
Design Research: What Is It and Why Do It? is a good piece from Panthea Lee arguing the case for design research in the public and international development …
Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh
Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh is an appalling headline for an unusual interview with Jonny Ive in celebration of his knighthood. Some great quotes: Most of …
The Psychologist’s View of UX Design
The Psychologist’s View of UX Designis a useful article from Dr. Susan Weinschenk, author of Neuro Web Design: What makes them click?. It really applies to all …
If… Behavioural Heuristics and Design
If… Behavioural Heuristics and Design is a excellent, long, but well-explained post by Dan Lockton on behavioural heuristics. Important for designers, because, …
The Irony of Neuroscience & Behaviour Change
I have been enjoying the Brain Culture: Neuroscience & Society series via BBC Radio 4’s podcasts recently. In the series Matthew Taylor looks at how …
Nest – Why Product Designers Don't Design Products Anymore
By now most of you will have already seen the learning thermostat, Nest, designed by Tony Fadell, who led the team that created the first 18 generations of the …
Design Research - A Failure of Imagination?
Have design education and design research failed to fire up the imagination in public discourse? I believe so and I believe the STEM (Science, Technology, …
Is Design Research Useless for Innovation?
Don Norman has just posted a very provocative and thoughtful piece about the value of design research, or not. “I’ve come to a disconcerting …
Printing Your Toast
Congratulations to one of my MA students at Luzern, Othmar Mühlebach, who has just won the second prize at the Berner Design Awards for his toaster re-design. …
The Little Man in the Box
All of us anthropomorphise our machines, perhaps no more so than the car and the computer. Hi, A Real Human Interface from Multitouch Barcelona (an interaction …
Writing is Design
“Verbalizing design is another act of design. I realised this while writing this book,” writes Kenya Hara in the preface to his book, Designing …
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 …
Taxi Driver With Storyboards
There’s a discussion going on over at IxDA about whether an interaction design can create great interaction without great visual design skills. My answer …
Designing Education's Future
I gave a presentation yesterday at Northumbria University’s School of Design’s staff conference called Designing Education’s Future: online, …
Omnium. The Conversation on Notes on Design
Notes On Design invited Rick Bennett and I to talk about our experiences of long-distance and global online creative collaboration within the Omnium Research …
LinkedIn's Weird UI Shadows
Is it just me or does anyone else find LinkedIn’s new design tweaks weird on the perspective front? This rounded-corner box has a couple of random shadows …
SVA to offer Interaction Design MFA
New York’s School of Visual Arts has just announced that they’re offering a Masters of Fine Arts in Interaction Design as of Fall (or Autumn as we …
Design is Money - ATM Design
ATMs in Germany are lame, I have to say. They’re slow and clunky and appear to be designed by software engineers rather than UI designers. So I wish …
Why Good Looking Error Messages Matter
Almost anything involving computers falls over once in a while, but it’s how you handle it that makes all the difference. I spotted this in Newcastle …
Information Design for NGOs
The Tactical Technology Collective have released a great little PDF booklet online called Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An introduction to information …
Iron Man's HUD and interaction design
The current issue of Desktop has a snippet from my interview with Dav Mrozek Rauch from The Orphanage talking about their work on the HUD for Iron Man. If you …
3M Interface - Reverse Multitouch
My brother, Matt, just e-mailed a link to this interface on the 3M website. Given the multitouch hype at the moment, it’s quite a clever little riff on …
From the Archives: Interview with Daniel Brown
Daniel Brown – Flower Power (In an earlier unpublished draft of this I so wanted to title it “Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Coder”, but good taste …
Core77 Broadcast interview with Troika
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Sebastien and Eva from Troika, the studio behind the Cloud and All The Time In The World installations at new …
Playful Revolutions Presentation
After my Flash on the Beach talk last year I promised to put the recordings online of my talk and the others that I had listened to. I completely didn’t …
Collabor8 - Creative Waves 2008
The Omnium Project will be running another global online creative collaboration project under the Creative Waves banner from 28th April - 20 June, this time …
I Want You To Want Me by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, who created one of my all time favourite interactive pieces, We Feel Fine, have a new piece called I Want You To Want Me …
Podcast interview with Jason Bruges
My latest Core77 Broadcast interview with Jason Bruges from Jason Bruges Studio is now online. In a slightly echoing room in Jason’s studio, accompanied …
Jackson Pollock Interactive
Once again proving that the simple interactives are often the most engaging and playful, this Jackson Pollockpiece by Miltos Manetas and Stamen has apparently …
Game Controller Family Tree
From the old, beloved Atari 2600 joystick to the Wiimote, how did we get from there to here? The “Sock Master’s” family tree of controllers …
Website Navigation Via Camera Tracking
The website of Publicis & Hal Riney uses camera-tracking in Flash for the navigation - the first website to use it as far as I know. Although described by a …
Playful Measuring Jug
Metric is so passé. Just how much is a hill of beans? I’m not sure, but I know the problems of three little people don’t amount to one. On the other …
iSmoke - How wrong? Very.
I walked past this ‘iSmoke’ ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes the other day. How wrong? Let me count the ways… It’s lazy creative. This is …
37signals versus Don Norman
If there was ever a clear example of the generation gap between those who have been steeped in digital culture from the start and those who have had to adopt it …
Mac Virus with Gravitas
Troika, the folks behind the cloud sculpture at Heathrow, have created a virus on a USB stick, called the Newton Virus (for manual infection) that makes your …
iPlay - interactivity without the flab
Chris just posted an interesting find called the iPlay. It’s basically an interactive playground frame game, which means that children have to run around …
LED Toilet Door Mix-Up Signs, Denmark
Those crazy Danes. (Image stolen from djaphrael) Amusing project over at Halfmachine which involved making toilet door signs from LEDs in a club. Of course, …
Share The Mouse on a Web Page
That’s My Mouse allows you to see share a web browsing experience with other people. You see their tag moving around as they move their mouse and any …
Podcast Interview with Hector Serrano
My interview with Hector Serrano is now available on the Core77 Broadcasts page. My thanks to Hector for an entertaining chat about his playful and insightful …
IKEA Complete Bedroom
I seem to be having a bit of an IKEA theme going on at the moment. Following on from the Dream Kitchen site there’s a nice new piece called The Complete …
From the archives: Dialogue with IKEA's Monika Mulder
Continuing the From The Archives series, here is an interview I did a while ago with one of the IKEA designers, Monika Mulder. Monika was really interesting to …
Troika is on Cloud, er, Five
If you haven’t already explored the background behind Troika’s cloud for BA’s Terminal 5 - “a five meter long digital sculpture whose …
Track Yourself and Friends with SportsDo
Ever wanted to track your training route and activity or just remember where you skied? My brother, Matthew, was given a SportsDo account and kit for Christmas …
BeatBearings and the Wisdom of the Tube
This BeatBearing project on YouTube by Peter Bennett is one of those physical interaction ideas that sounded great on paper, but is a bit useless in the flesh. …
Jiggling Icons on the iPhone
There are plenty of big announcements and coverage of Steve Jobs’s Macworld keynote. I’m happy to see the new AppleTV, movie downloads and rentals, …
From the Archives: Jonathan Harris - Man of the Hour
I have been promising that I would like to upload all of the articles I have written over the years so that they might be of use for people rather than them …
Hulger Sale
My mate Nik, the man behind Hulger, just mailed to say that they’re having a sale and phasing out some of the older colours. So if you want the super cool …
Moving Between Consulting and Academia
Jon Kolko’s article, Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire: Life lessons from consulting to academia, and back again over at Core77, was a particularly …
20,000 Processing Particles
I’ve played with Processing a fair bit over the years, but never really got stuck into anything solid - most of my time has been spent fixing up my …
NetX Digital Cardboard Christmas
It’s nice to see digital agencies do non-digital (sort of). My German pal, Tim Buesing, who now lives and works in Sydney at NetX just sent me the NetXmas …
The Whale Hunt by Jonathan Harris
Whatever your opinion on commercial whaling, substance whaling is a totally different affair. It’s been part of aboriginal Eskimo life for thousands of …
Benettonplay's Video Grid
Proving that the oldies are indeed the goldies, the Fabrica have re-made their video grid idea in Flash for your online interactive enjoyment. Amazing how …
Fireside chat with Brendan Dawes
I promised to put online the chat I had with magneticNorth’s Creative Director, Brendan Dawes, from when we were at Flash On the Beach 07. I’ve been …
Plumen - low energy, high style
My mate Nik Roope has been busily working up another smart idea to brighten up the lack of imagination in the marketplace again. This time it’s the Plumen …
Games, Play and Web Applications
[Dan Saffer’s](http://www.odannyboy.com/blog/new_archives/2007/10/presentation_ga.html] latest presentation called Gaming The Web: Using the structures of …
New magneticNorth website
Check out magneticNorth’s new website. As Brendan (mN’s Creative Director) says “Look beyond the site you see and you may discover …
Use Designers Better
For several years I’ve been trying to express how design thinking can be used across a whole range of disciplines from sustainability to education to, …
IKEA Dream Kitchen
The multi-camera technique that freezes a moment in time, but allows you to pan around in space (popularised as bullet time in The Matrix, but it has quite a …
Interactive Gestures Wiki
Multitouch screens of all shapes and forms are really all the rage, but with them come whole new paradigms of interaction. Do you wave like a Wii or do the …
Steve Scott - animator and illustrator to the stars
My mate and erstwhile work compadre, Steve Scott, has finally updated his website with lots of new goodies. If you’re a fan of illustration and animation, …
Podcast with Matt Clark from United Visual Artists
Following on from my last post about Hereafter, my podcast interview with Matt Clark from United Visual Artists is now online at Core77. We chat about a range …
Hereafter by United Visual Artists
United Visual Artists have a lovely new piece called Hereafter, which is very similar to elements of my Time Sketches in that it layers frames from a video …
Out of Bounds interview with Chris O' Shea
Chris O’ Shea recently completed Out of Bounds during his residency at the Design Museum. Chris also writes the very good Pixelsumo from which I …
Dan Saffer on Design Research Lies
Brilliant clip of Dan Saffer doing the start of his How To Lie With Design Research talk at the 2007 Design Research conference. If you’ve ever been to …
Sorry Goodby, Silverstein & Partners!
Thanks to Jim Coudal (I love the giant ‘Finally’ on Coudal.com at the moment too) and Sidney Bosley from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for …
Interactive Banner Ad from Adobe
I interacted with a banner ad today, and actually enjoyed it. Adobe’s Creative License campaign is currently on display at Coudal Partners’ Layer …
Touchscreen implications for mobile gaming
Interesting piece by Stuart Dredge on the implications that touchscreens (read: iPhone) interfaces have for mobile gaming over at Pocketgamer. Of course there …
More playful goodies from Jamie Wieck
I have just been taking a deeper look at the work of Jamie Wieck, who did the Don’t Play With Your Food plates in the previous post. Not only is his body …
Playful Plates
Witty, playful everyday things seem to be all over the place at the moment. Chris at Pixelsumo just posted about these embossed plates, called Don’t Play …
Speaking at Flash on the Beach
I’m very pleased to have been invited to speak at Flash on the Beach in Brighton. FOTB runs from 4th- - 7th November and my session is on the last day. I …
Dynamic resizing of image content
This technology developed by Ariel Shamir from the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science resizes the content of images in the same way that web pages are …
Playful Signage
Whilst at Urban Learning Space I noticed the lovely, playful signage all around the building at The Lighthouse (originally a Charles Rennie Mackintosh …
Creative Collaboration & The Future of Education
I presented my seminar on Creative Collaboration and The Future of Education at Urban Learning Space yesterday and very much enjoyed the Glaswegian hospitality …
Two-Way Tangible Interface: PICO
[](hysical Intervention in Computational Optimization) PICO (Physical Intervention in Computational Optimization) by James Patten is a tangible interface that …
Data Visualisation Approaches
There’s a great post on Data Visualization: Modern Approaches over at Smashing Magazine. Some of them are pretty well-known, like Newsmap and (one of my …
Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education Seminar
I’m going to be giving a seminar called Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education at Urban Learning Space in Glasgow who have a number of really …
The Playmakers
I’ve just been introduced to a wonderful book. It’s called Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them , by Tim Walsh and …
Service Design with Live|Work
In another interview I’m re-publishing online, I talk with Ben Reason from service design agency, Live|Work. He explains exactly what service design is, …
Interview with Nik Roope from Hulger & Poke
My first Core77 Broadcast with Nik Roope about Hulger has just gone online. It should become one of a series of podcasts for Core77 and I’m really pleased …
StumbleUpon is the Antirom of the Web
Or - In Praise of Randomness Whilst thinking about writing a post in praise of randomness in interaction design, I realised that StumbleUpon is, in many ways, …
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design Opens
A year or so ago I heard about plans to set up the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and I’m really happy to see that they are now ready …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
More Surface Information
Chris over at Pixelsumo just mailed me some more links to do with the background and technology behind the Microsoft Surface table. One is from Ars Technica and …
Microsoft Surface
I strangely don’t have a lot to say about the already well-blogged offer from Microsoft, Microsoft Surface. It’s obviously pretty and nice and …
Multitouch City Wall
The CityWall is a new work by the Ubiquitous Interaction (Uix) research group in Helsinki as part of the IPCity project. It gathers tagged images and video from …
An image is worth 1,000 Twitters
Flickrvision, just so much more interesting than Twittervision. Via the Nic.
John Gruber on the iPhone
John Gruber is one of the few Apple advocates that writes with intelligent consideration rather than just being an over-enthused fanboy. He has just written a …
Draw on Walls, with Light
A while ago Chris O’ Shea wrote about the Philips Simplicity Project, which had a number of mainly light-based inventions, several of them interactive. …
John Maeda exhibition
I wish I was in London for it, but I’m not. John Maeda has an exhibition called Maeda; MySpace at the Riflemaker Gallery starting today. Maeda and Toshio …
Tape It Off The Internet
Nice to see the article in the Guardian about Paul Pod’s Tape It Off The Internet being almost ready to roll. I worked with Paul at Razorfish and …
Polar Clock
Clocks and calendars seem to permanently popular as interaction/Flash design subjects. John Maeda arguably started the trend, then Yugo did a few. This one from …
Type it in. Hear it sung.
Read the graphic for Let them sing it for you below: I wish I had the patience to cut all those song snippets up.
Human Computer interaction in Sci-Fi
I added the link to Michael Schmitz’s Human Computer interaction in Science Fiction Movies to my del.icio.us account a while ago when one of my students …
Reclaiming the Role of Designers
I wrote some thoughts about the life of a creative person for my students a while ago, and recently commented on Rick Poynor’s article about the Soul of …
A new set of design principles
The latest issue of Desktop is out with an article by me called A New Set of Design Principles. It’s based on interviews with Stefan Sagmeister and Milton …
Reactable cacophony
Evidently Reactable has been around for a couple of years, but I hadn’t heard about it until one of my ex-students, Gabi, sent me the link. Undoubtedly …
Stealing the soul of design
There’s a great piece by Rick Poynor in Icon called The Soul of Design in which he de-bunks many of the management consultant myths and misunderstanding …
Touchscreen Magic Mirror
The Big Space have added an ultrasonic system from Sensitive Object to their Magic Mirror to enable it to also be a touchscreen. Nice to see that collection of …
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
I’m super happy to see Chris O’Shea’s post about his visit to the Kinetica Museum to see the retrospective exhibition of the Cabaret …
Desktop 2007 Create Awards
A quick plug for Desktop Magazine (the home of much of my writing) as their 2007 Create Awards are awaiting entries. So, if you were one of my ex-students or a …
Big Switches and Panels
If you’re into interaction design you should already know of Dan Saffer, interaction designer at Adaptive Path and author of Designing for Interaction. …
Jonathan Harris Coolhunting Video
Following up on my recent post about Jonathan Harris’s new work, Universe, Mike alerted me to this video interview with Jon on Coolhunting. It’s …
Google Map anomolies and Twitter
Two posts in one, what a bargain. Karl sent me a link to Craig’s Flip Flop Flying blog because of his post about Google Maps anomalies. Basically as …
37 Signals interview
In keeping with my re-release of prior interviews and articles I have written, here is the one with the good folks at 37Signals. It’s a little out of date …
Reveal your Hidden Life
We all have inner thoughts, secrets and dreams that we fail to manifest and carry around with us like shiny gems hidden in our pockets. After a while they weigh …
Master of the Universe
I’ve written a few times about the work of Jonathan Harris and We Feel Fine remains one of my favourite combinations of data visualisation combined with a …
Company relationships are like a marriage
Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users just made a brilliant comparison of customer relationships to personal relationships. She points out that many …
Zeitguised Interview
I interviewed crazy animation duo, Zeitguised, for the last issue of Desktop. I’ll post it here once my three-month buffer from Desktop’s publishing …
Omnium software released as Open Source
Last night the new v4.0 Omnium software that runs all of the Omnium projects, such as the Omnium Creative Network and the forthcoming Creative Waves 2007 (as …
Periodic Table Table
Theodore Gray now has a whole range of the most beautiful Periodic Table posters for sale. Gray is well known for his wooden Periodic Table, erm, table. But …
Poke Wins With Cock
Thought that title might get your attention. Congratulations to Poke for their Digital Design - Commercial win at the Design Week Awards 2007 with …
Magic Mirror
The Big Space have created a Magic Mirror for retail environments. It utilises RFID tags and a rear projection onto a mirror (and, of course, magic) to blend …
Interview with United Visual Artists
I wrote a little while back about UVA and onepointsix’s installation at the V&A; called Volume and it generated some discussion about the work. I …
70max - cheaper, safer, greener
Live|Work have just put together a new collective action website called 70max aimed at encouraging people to slow down and reduce accidents and carbon …
Creative Waves 2
Omnium, the research group that I am part of (now online) in Australia, has just launched its next ‘Creative Waves’ global e-learning project …
Drunk Deutsche Bahn Icons
](/images/2007/01/normal_dbsigns.jpg) [ Click to enlarge the images For a while I’ve been meaning to photograph this - unfortunately I only got them with …
US Airforce or Videogame?
Not really the usual fare of Playpen, but through a strange Google Ad placement that I clicked on I ended up at the U.S. Airforce’s propaganda recruitment …
Bubble Sequencer
Adding to the ever-growing list of things that my ex-students now do much better than I, Karl D. D. Willis is working on a playful new project called Bubble …
Everything is a Toy with RFID tags
I’ve already posted some thoughts about this project by Yuichiro Katsumoto on the Bauhaus blog so I won’t repeat here save to say that I like this …
Safari's experimental typography
When I was trying to access Apple’s website for the iPhone the other day Safari went all glitchy with its image rendering. I quite like the above smear …
Regine comes to the Bauhaus
I’m delighted that the very brilliant and extremely well-connected Regine Debatty from we-make-money-not-art.com is giving a talk at the Bauhaus on …
Light Tracer wins Tokyo TDC Award
I’m a bit late with this announcement due to the holidays, but I’m very happy to see that an ex-student of mine, Karl D. D. Willis won the …
Low tech accidents
Whilst looking through some old archives of work (and also the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive) I re-found a gif that I made for my very first …
UVA's Volume at the V&A
A bit of cross-posting from my Bauhaus blog here, but worth it. Chris O’Shea over at Pixelsumo has written up a good description of a new work, Volume, by …
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. …
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 …
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 interesting …
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 …
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 great …
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 of …
Google and UNEP Map Environmental Change
Google and the United Nations Environmental Programme last week launched an addition to Google Earth called the Atlas of Our Changing Environment, which allows …
Be A Good Friend
What a joy to discover Steven Blyth’s My Social Fabric project (thanks to Mike Coulter at Digital Agency). Essentially the My Social Fabric project gives …
Insights into Jonathan Ive
Businessweek have a great selection of in-depth articles about Apple’s Senior Vice-President for Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive and they give a real …
Hidden Gems in Apple's Announcements
Of course there is the usual commentary on Steve Jobs’ new Apple announcements and no doubt this will add to the slush pile, but I think there are a few …
Interview with Andy Cameron
The ever-brilliant and plugged-in Regine Debatty from we-make-money-not-art.com recently interviewed my previous lecturer and co-Antirommer, Andy Cameron, now …
Timescope
] ART+COM have just launched a project called Timescope, which is allows you to visually travel through time using a telescope like the ones commonly mounted on …
10 Years of Flash
Is it ten years already? I really am getting old. I remember the days when Flash was a really awkward little ‘Director pretender’ animation package …
Google Flight Sim
Okay, so once again I’m so far behind the curve on this one I’ve wrapped around and am in front again (I reckon). Mark Caswell-Daniels’ …
Re-imagining Higher Education
Recently I have been giving much thought to the structure and issues that most of us in Higher Education have been struggling with for several years. There are …
The Play Ethic and Sustainability
For a very long time now (since 2005 in fact), Pat Kane’s book, The Play Ethic has been on my Amazon Wishlist (hint, hint) along with several other books …
Home Entertainment
colette_window.jpg The folks over at Fabrica have created a new interaction installation called Home Entertainment for the windows of “style, design, art, …
Fake Beer in Germany
Fake beer? In Germany? Sacrilege! Slightly off topic for this blog, I know (well, okay, it’s about design and I live in Germany), but Deutsche-Welle have …
Get Smart with your metering
Quick post about the BBC’s story on Smart Meters - the meters, designed by More Associates show you exactly where all your energy is going. The theory …
The Real World
Ever noticed that the usual world map you see in atlases doesn’t really reflect the land-mass of the countries (the Northern Hemisphere countries are …
Taking the emotional temperature of the world
I feel very jealous, but also excited. Every so often, okay very often, someone makes a piece of interactive work that I really, really wish I had created. More …
Jenna Jameson in new Adidas spot by Tronic
New from Tronic Studio is an Adidas viral spot starring porn star adult entertainer, Jenna Jameson. From Vivian at Tronic: Jenna Jameson flexes her muscles as …
Cock-A-Doodle new from Poke
Check out the excellent and hilarious new offering from my pals at Poke called Cock-A-Doodle. Great to see Flash becoming less vector-shash and great to see …
More viral beer ads
Not that the advertising world is totally lacking in originality or anything (ahem), but following on from the success of Carlton & United Breweries’ …
Beyond the single jab - the multi-touch interface
Robert just sent me a YouTube link to Jeff Han’s amazing Multi-Touch interface. It allows multiple points of contact, which means you can do things like …
ONEDOTZERO_10: Call for submissions
Time for any of my ex or current students and general creative bods to send out their DVDs. onedotzero, the world’s largest digital film festival, is open …
New work from Binalogue
My friends (and ex-students) over at Binalogue recently re-vamped their site (though being the perfectionists they are it’s going to have even more done …
Ninja-Man hits the one million mark
Three of my ex-students, Adam Searle, Johnny Jei Le, and Jason Chow spent the last year re-building a Flash platform game called Ninja-Man that they originally …
'Birds' - the new clip from Pleix
Paris-based collective, Pleix have just finished their new clip called Birds for Vitalic. The clip features extreme slow-motion footage of dogs jumping and …