interviews

A new set of design principles

April 18, 2007

<img src=’http://www.polaine.com/playpen/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/sagmeister_pigmobiles.jpg’ alt=’Stefan Sagmeister’s designs for a touring protest about US spending’ /> 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 Glaser](http://www.miltonglaser.com] that examine the role of graphic design (and design in general) in dealing [...]

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37 Signals interview

March 26, 2007

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 It’s a little out of date in terms of some of the content and applications they refer to, but the wisdom is still there and worth a read. 37signals – Less is [...]

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Interview on WorldChanging

March 9, 2007

A quick pointer to an interview about the Creative Waves VIP Project with Rick Bennett and I on the very excellent WorldChanging.com. If you’ve been wondering what it’s all about and why it might be interesting to take part, then have a read. Thanks to Regine for writing it too. p.s. If you haven’t bought [...]

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Zeitguised Interview

February 24, 2007

<img src=’http://www.polaine.com/playpen/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/zeitguised_lg.jpg’ alt=’Zeitguised’s The Zoo’ /> 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 date is over, but in the meantime you can read it over at the Desktop website.

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Interview with United Visual Artists

February 19, 2007

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 asked the UVA boys a bit more about it and here is the resulting interview: AP: I really enjoyed Volume, it’s very mesmerising and it also brought up some thoughts [...]

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Dialogue with Malcolm Garrett

January 19, 2007

I have been writing articles for various design magazines for over eight years now, mainly for Desktop in Australia/NZ, and felt sad that many of the very interesting conversations I have had with people over the years are just languishing on my hard drive. So the folks at Desktop have let me re-publish older articles [...]

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