Writing

Ten rules for writing fiction – Part Two

by Andy Polaine on February 1, 2012

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Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)

The second of The Guardian’s series on rules for writing from a survey of established authors. (Part one is here, in case you missed it).

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Desktop columns online – onlab

by Andy Polaine on November 12, 2010

in General

Desktop magazine are republishing some of my previous Foreign Policy columns for their website. It’s good to see these get a new lease of life. The first one, Trying It On is a profile on Swiss/German studio onlab.

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Domus Magazine, Intersections #923, March 2009, illustration: Tobias Krafczyk, Publisher: Editoriale Domus, Italy. You can watch the folding on YouTube.

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The Virtues of Imperfection

October 4, 2010

I have enjoyed all of Jonathan Franzen’s books, in particular The Corrections, his novel about the complexities of family relationships, careers and, for one character, writing. The irony that 80,000 copies of his new book, Freedom will have to be recalled and/or pulped because someone used the wrong file can not be lost on him. [...]

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Core77 Columnista

August 11, 2010

I’m very pleased to have been asked to be a columnist for the Core77 blog. It’s been in the works for a few weeks, but my recent trip to Ethiopia and our new daughter delayed my ability to get down to some writing. I’ve long been a fan of “industrial design supersite” Core77 (now re-taglined [...]

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Mentoring Creative Minds

July 4, 2010

The current issue of COFA’s Incubate magazine has a piece by me in it called Mentoring Creative Minds, which is a reflection on 15 years of teaching (that I have been teaching that long came as a bit of a shock). They also used a scarily large version of my head logo (I can see some [...]

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Writing is Design

March 3, 2009

“Verbalizing design is another act of design. I realised this while writing this book,” writes Kenya Hara in the preface to his book, Designing Design. But writing itself is an act of design, whatever the subject. Over the years I have done quite a bit of writing and recently my PhD is the largest block [...]

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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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Jonathan Harris on the Creative Review Blog

December 31, 2008

I seem to have been writing about Jonathan Harris rather a lot recently. Following the piece on Flash on the Beach I wrote in Creative Review in November, an interview I did with Harris has just been published on the Creative Review blog. He had some interesting things to say about the nature of software [...]

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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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