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Interviews with Jona Piehl and Tom Roope

by Andy Polaine on February 23, 2010

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The latest set in the series of interviews I did for COFA Online have now gone online.

Jona Piehl from Land Design Studio talks about the challenges and role of design for large exhibitions and the collaboration involved:

Tom Roope, one of the founders of The Rumpus Room, talks about the crossover of traditional media with interactive and social media forms:

Thanks once again to Rachel Meyrick (a.k.a. Rachel Lewis) for the camera and editing work.

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Interviews with Nik Roope, Troika & Mark Hauenstein

by Andy Polaine on December 1, 2009

in General

Most of the interviews we shot for COFA Online have now gone online. A few others with Jona Piehl from Land Design Studio and Nik’s brother, Tom Roope from The Rumpus Room will be released next year and they all explore working in the grey area of merging and emerging disciplines.

Nik Roope gives some great insights into the thinking behind many of Poke’s successful projects:

Sebastien Noel and Eva Rucki from Troika on their cross-disciplinary projects:

Here, Mark Hauenstein talks about his journey from studying fine art to being head of Research and Development at AllofUs:

Thanks to Rachel for the great camera and editing work.

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Interviews with Brendan Dawes and Simon Waterfall

November 11, 2009

A few months ago I trekked around London with my filmaker and editor friend Rachel to shoot a whole load of interviews with designers and artists for COFAOnline. I still teach online for the College of Fine Arts at UNSW in Australia and these interviews will form an independent site as an ongoing resource as [...]

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Interview and profile of Dan Saffer

February 2, 2009

Core77 have just posted an interview and profile I wrote on Dan Saffer and hhis new book, Designing Gestural Interfaces. Dan talks about his vision for future devices and the way design agencies need to shift to a much more multi-disciplinary way of working if they are to survive. I’ll just point you to “Talk [...]

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Troika – Digital by Design & Interview

November 11, 2008

Troika have a new book out called Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments. It is a wide-ranging survey of works that use new and emerging digital technologies, often crossed with physical interactions and products that blur the boundaries between art and design. They have managed to collect together work from a fantastic [...]

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Iron Man’s HUD and interaction design

May 30, 2008

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 click on video and then “Run Before You Can Walk” in the widget above, you’ll get a reasonable taster of it. One of my favourite [...]

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From the Archives: Interview with Daniel Brown

May 21, 2008

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 prevailed. Now I get the chance to share the awful pun with the world. I still prefer it to ‘Flower Power’ though. – AP) Some of the [...]

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