Writing

From the archives: Dialogue with IKEA’s Monika Mulder

February 4, 2008

Continuing the From The Archives series, here is an interview I did a while ago with one of the IKEA designers, Monika Mulder. Monika was really interesting to chat to about the IKEA process and culture, especially as many of these items are in either my or friends’ houses. She also talked about design in [...]

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From the Archives: Jonathan Harris – Man of the Hour

January 10, 2008

I have been promising that I would like to upload all of the articles I have written over the years so that they might be of use for people rather than them languishing on my hard drive, but I’ve been a bit slack at actually doing so because converting them to decent HTML and fixing [...]

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More playful goodies from Jamie Wieck

September 5, 2007

I have just been taking a deeper look at the work of Jamie Wieck, who did the Don’t Play With Your Food plates in the previous post. Not only is his body of work along a similar witty, clever and playful vein – of which there really isn’t enough in design, in my opinion – [...]

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Service Design with Live|Work

July 22, 2007

In another interview I’m re-publishing online, I talk with Ben Reason from service design agency, Live|Work. He explains exactly what service design is, its roots in product and interactive design and the difference between service designers and consultants, as well as the important role it has to play in a sustainable future.

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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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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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Invitation À Jouer

January 8, 2007

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 Invitation to Play (a phrase, incidentally, that I completely owe to Mark Pesce who mentioned it to me once when we were talking about a student’s work – [...]

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Vote for my manifesto

September 2, 2006

Having spent a long time thinking about and writing the Re-imagining Higher Education essay I am trying to get it published as a Change This manifesto http://www.changethis.com.

So, if you’re a regular reader, you can help me by voting for it to be turned into a manifesto. Just click on this link http://www.changethis.com/proposals/775 and click the “Yes, write this manifesto” button.

If it gets published I’ll love you forever. Or at least ten minutes. Or something.

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