Andy Polaine
How to be Creative
Just saw this thread titled How to be Creative doing the rounds. As someone who spends his time trying to teach others to be creative, and lamenting my own lack …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Singapore Airlines air rage and the German Professor
Okay, I’m sorry to keep harping on about this whole thing, but being cooped up in a metal tube for 22 hours does things to one’s brain. So, …
Singapore Airlines fiasco continues...
I knew the whole upgrade hassle would come back to bite me. So, having finally sorted my flights I rang Singapore Airlines to check up on something and was told …
In the air and enjoying the Sky Bed
Finally in the air and enjoying the Sky Bed in the business class upgrade with Singapore Airlines after an incredible amount of hassle. The upgrade came through …
Turkey Bombing
Can’t say I’m too happy about the bombing in Turkey just on the eve of making my way over there. I’m sure it will be okay, I spent enough time …
Well this is finally up,
Well this is finally up, on the eve of heading off to Germany and Turkey for a break and the 2004 Design and Emotion conference. I’ll try and post a few …
Balmain Yoga School Identity (2003 - 2006)
Branding and identity for the Balmain Yoga School. Simple typography and beautiful photography (photos by James Bourne) combine to give a sense of serenity and …
Fin Design Website (2004)
Creative/Interactive Director and Producer for HTML and Flash website for Sydney post-production company, Fin Design. Created in collaboration with Gestalt …
Biennale of Sydney (2004)
Interactive and Art Direction of a prototype CD-ROM for the Biennale of Sydney, 2004 in collaboration with my students. The project was unfortunately dropped …
zspace Website (2002)
Flash website and content management system for Sydney-based visual effects company zspace (N.B. the current site is a new version). Created in collaboration …
Dreamlight Imaging Print Material (2002)
Advertising and print material for Dreamlight Imaging, Sydney (utilising exisiting logo). Dreamlight are a film scanning and recording company - light is the …
Dreamlight Imaging Website (2002 - 2003)
Flash website and back-end content administration tool for Sydney digital-to-film recording company, Dreamlight Imaging. The brief was to create a site that …
Mobile Spam
This is an article that I wrote a while back for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Australia. The original link and title is Protecting the extension of …
ABC FlyNet (2001)
Complete site design for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s youth portal, FlyNet (now in archive). Also included the development of Flash E-cards …
Animal Logic Website (2000 - 2001)
As Interactive Director at Animal Logic, one of the main tasks was to oversee the re-development of Animal’s extensive website, down to the very last …