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Second Life is like an empty restaurant

July 31, 2007

I wrote a post a while back about how dull I thought it was that Adaptive Path were researching Second Life (along with many, far too many, media academics). I still don’t ‘get’ Second Life’s appeal, but maybe that’s from experimenting with virtual worlds long ago and not finding much difference 12 years on. However, [...]

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The 12 Kinds of Ads in the World

July 29, 2007

I don’t really blog about advertising or marketing, though it seems to be one the most popular blogging subjects. I usually read Iain’s Crackunit for witty insights into the digital arena too. But Seth Stevenson’s There Are 12 Kinds of Ads in the World is a great analysis of TV advertising genres along with some [...]

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Interview with Nik Roope from Hulger & Poke

July 20, 2007

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 because it’s one of my regular reads. Core77 started out (and still bills itself) as the “industrial design supersite”, though their remit has become somewhat wider, which [...]

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Wind to Light

June 9, 2007

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 project called wind to light from jason bruges studio. The project will be unveilled next friday for Architecture Week 2007. From onedotzero (and keeping their penchant for [...]

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Avant-Garde Tube

May 15, 2007

Nice post from Dan Hill over at City of Sound about finding a whole host of avant-garde films on YouTube, particularly Len Lye’s film, Free Radicals (see below). Dan also mentions Malcolm Le Grice who I remember being my head of school when I was at college. Lye has been a massive influence on video [...]

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Draw on Walls, with Light

May 3, 2007

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. One of them was this Drag and Draw idea – it’s basically a ‘bucket’ filled with light. Aimed at children, the child can dip a stick into the bucket and paint [...]

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Play matters. Do it first.

April 3, 2007

As you know I think and write about play quite a bit and am a big advocate of most of what Pat Kane writes about in The Play Ethic. My interests are a combination of play in the context of interaction design as well as within culture and the institutions of work and education as [...]

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Big Switches and Panels

April 3, 2007

If you’re into interaction design you should already know of Dan Saffer, interaction designer at Adaptive Path and author of Designing for Interaction. What I didn’t know of was the site he curates, No Ideas But In Things, on which he documents all sorts of physical interfaces, but usually things that have big switches and [...]

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Company relationships are like a marriage

February 26, 2007

Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users just made a brilliant comparison of customer relationships to personal relationships. She points out that many customer relationships are like bad marriages. Everything starts off rosy, then it all goes wonky: This is such a big bowl of wrong. I don’t understand this in personal relationships, and I [...]

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Inane Searches

February 24, 2007

Sometimes I trawl through Playpen’s stats to see how people find me. (Yes, yes, navel gazing – don’t tell me you don’t do it too). Anyway, I always find the search phrases amusing and I noticed a bit of a trend: i hate carphone warehouse why i hate mobile phone i hate working in a [...]

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