Doctor's Note

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

Google Flight Sim

Okay, so once again I’m so far behind the curve on this one I’ve wrapped around and am in front again (I reckon). Mark Caswell-Daniels’ …

Location Aware Ads on London Buses

I’m a bit late catching up with this one (I have been working… remember that?), but I just noticed this post in Ad Age about Yell.com’s plans …

Interactive Architecture

The Graffiti Research Lab (the folks behind the LED Throwies) have just launched another project called Interactive Architecture. Basically it involves leeching …

Re-imagining Higher Education

Recently I have been giving much thought to the structure and issues that most of us in Higher Education have been struggling with for several years. There are …

The Play Ethic and Sustainability

For a very long time now (since 2005 in fact), Pat Kane’s book, The Play Ethic has been on my Amazon Wishlist (hint, hint) along with several other books …

Invitation to play at the Game / Play exhibition

I recently wrote a catalogue essay called The Invitation to Play (thanks to Mark Pesce for that phrase) for the Game/Play networked exhibition displayed …

Fleabilly strikes again

Okay, so a pure vanity post here. A couple of wonderful photos from Fleabilly a.k.a Ray Lewis of me in London. Don’t ask about the mask. It was just lying …

Home Entertainment

colette_window.jpg The folks over at Fabrica have created a new interaction installation called Home Entertainment for the windows of “style, design, art, …

Time Sketches (2006)

Time Smear in action Time Smear and Time Slicer form part of a series of live video works called Time Sketches that experiment with interactivity and the …

Necessary Procrastination

Interaction guru, John Maeda suggests that procrastination might be useful after all (hey, I bet that’s what you’re doing right now right? Reading …