Doctor's Note

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

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Apple iPhone

I’m going to join what will be an enormous club and blog about Apple’s iPhone. I nearly didn’t, just to not follow the crowd, but given my …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
Blogging game_play Play Writing

Invitation À Jouer

I was recently contacted by Yves Bernard who writes the ArtNumeur blog about a piece I wrote a for the Game/Play exhibition little while back called An …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
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Playpen on WMMNA

Just a quickie to thank Regine for the name-check on we-make-money-not-art.com. WMMNA is the source for all things interactive/new media art/design, or as she …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
Play Research

Games Studies Journal new issue

The new issue of the Games Studies journal, Volume 6, Issue 1 was published in December, just in case you missed it in the holiday rush. Here are the contents: …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
Design Education Interactivity Play

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 …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
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UVA's Volume on YouTube

I wrote a little while back about UnitedVisualArtists’ new work, Volume, that is being shown at the V&A; at the moment. Joel from UVA sent me a mail …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine
Advertising Culture General Play

The Power of Red Buttons

Having just mistyped a domain name and been sent to one of those really irritating ‘parked domain’ search pages, I saw this pop-up. Normally, I …

Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine