Andy Polaine
Art Haus
This skit from on a pretentious Big Brother-style ‘art haus’ full of pretentious artists (with German accents) had me chuckling. I have seen a …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Yes, it's five things.
I’ve seen the Five Things meme floating around and now Nik tagged me. If you’ve no idea what I’m talking about, like Nik I’m going to …
Safari's experimental typography
When I was trying to access Apple’s website for the iPhone the other day Safari went all glitchy with its image rendering. I quite like the above smear …
Regine comes to the Bauhaus
I’m delighted that the very brilliant and extremely well-connected Regine Debatty from we-make-money-not-art.com is giving a talk at the Bauhaus on …
Apple iPhone
I’m going to join what will be an enormous club and blog about Apple’s iPhone. I nearly didn’t, just to not follow the crowd, but given my …
Invitation À Jouer
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 …
Playpen on WMMNA
Just a quickie to thank Regine for the name-check on we-make-money-not-art.com. WMMNA is the source for all things interactive/new media art/design, or as she …
Games Studies Journal new issue
The new issue of the Games Studies journal, Volume 6, Issue 1 was published in December, just in case you missed it in the holiday rush. Here are the contents: …
Light Tracer wins Tokyo TDC Award
I’m a bit late with this announcement due to the holidays, but I’m very happy to see that an ex-student of mine, Karl D. D. Willis won the …
UVA's Volume on YouTube
I wrote a little while back about UnitedVisualArtists’ new work, Volume, that is being shown at the V&A; at the moment. Joel from UVA sent me a mail …
The Power of Red Buttons
Having just mistyped a domain name and been sent to one of those really irritating ‘parked domain’ search pages, I saw this pop-up. Normally, I …
Low tech accidents
Whilst looking through some old archives of work (and also the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive) I re-found a gif that I made for my very first …
The Omnium Blog
I’ve written before about my work with the Omnium Project and the Omnium Creative Network, but it has been needing another home… My colleagues …
UVA's Volume at the V&A
A bit of cross-posting from my Bauhaus blog here, but worth it. Chris O’Shea over at Pixelsumo has written up a good description of a new work, Volume, by …
Analogue In, Digital Out
I just read Brendan Dawes’s new book, Analogue In, Digital Out, in one day. A day when I was teaching all day too. I even stayed up late to finish it. …