Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Find out what the person next to you in traffic is nodding their head to...

Regine from ever fascinating and brilliantly titled We-Make-Money-Not-Art has just posted a story about the SoundPryer from the Interactive Institute in …

Boring 3D far from boring.

I’ve just been checking out Jimmy Maidens’s Boring 3D website which is far from boring and has some beautiful 3D “cartoons” I suppose …

Playpen renamed and rebuilt

I’ve just re-built the entire blog with MovableType now instead of Blogger and renamed it Playpen, which I felt was more apt and less pretentious than …

Amazon goes back in time

I just ordered and had an album delivered to my God-daughter via Amazon.co.uk. Everything went fine, as it usually does, but check out the order status - they …

COFA Annual (2004)

Interaction Direction and Producer for the Annual CD-ROM of over 320 collected student works for the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. This interface worked on …

The iMac G5, a simple wow.

Jeez Jonathan Ive and his team are amazing. The new G5 iMac is simply rocking. Nothing more to say until I get my hands on one. In the promo movie, Ive talks …

Designer fired for having an opinion about Bush

I just heard this story about a designer, Glen Hiller, from agency, Octavo Designs, being fired for heckling George W. Bush at a politcal rally. Apparently one …