https://polaine.com/tags/blog/ Recent content in blog on Andy Polaine Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:36:22 +0000 https://polaine.com/2015/01/be-my-eyes-lend-your-eyes-to-the-blind/ Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:36:22 +0000 https://polaine.com/2015/01/be-my-eyes-lend-your-eyes-to-the-blind/ Be My Eyes is an app that actually benefits people. Imagine that. It crowdsources help for visually impaired people by simply using a video link to someone else who can tell them what they’re looking at. Smart and simple. https://polaine.com/2014/12/winterhouse-institute/ Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:01:52 +0000 https://polaine.com/2014/12/winterhouse-institute/ The Winterhouse Institute focusess on non-profit, self-initiated projects that support design education, as well as social and political initiatives. What the Omnium Creative Network should have been - nice to see this off the ground. https://polaine.com/2014/12/the-daily-monster/ Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:01:43 +0000 https://polaine.com/2014/12/the-daily-monster/ Stefan Bucher’s inky fellas. https://polaine.com/2014/12/phofa-john-warwicker/ Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:01:35 +0000 https://polaine.com/2014/12/phofa-john-warwicker/ A blog from the Waracle. https://polaine.com/2014/12/uppercase/ Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:01:13 +0000 https://polaine.com/2014/12/uppercase/ UPPERCASE. Making, creating and curating visual culture. https://polaine.com/2013/10/design-research-techniques/ Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:46:10 +0000 https://polaine.com/2013/10/design-research-techniques/ Design Research Techniques is an “online repository is a necessarily unfinished and evolving resource for Participatory Design Techniques. These techniques help evolve a project lifecycle through participation of multiple stakeholders including potential users or audiences, partners or internal teams.” Thanks to my colleague Axel for finding this resource. It is, indeed, unfinished, but quite a good source of design research methods (which is one of the courses I teach at HSLU). https://polaine.com/2013/05/inforgraphic-movies/ Mon, 27 May 2013 12:16:57 +0000 https://polaine.com/2013/05/inforgraphic-movies/ The Inforgraphic Movie blog is a rolling resource of, well, infographic movies from Swiss designer, “Hitch”, who is an ex-student of ours here at HSLU. Nice collection. https://polaine.com/2013/04/create-a-one-click-expiring-link/ Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:59:42 +0000 https://polaine.com/2013/04/create-a-one-click-expiring-link/ DeadC.net is a link shortening service with a difference. You can create a URL that can only be clicked upon once. Of course, it’s only a re-direct, so someone can always copy the redirected URL, but useful for quickly sharing things “without being tracked,” as the site says. In many ways, this is horribly wrong, because it breaks the fundamental principle of avoiding dead links on the Web, but that’s the idea I suppose. https://polaine.com/2008/09/paleo-future/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:23:45 +0000 https://polaine.com/2008/09/paleo-future/ Image: Paleo Future The future isn’t what it used to be. Whilst looking around for an image of a flying car for a presentation, I stumbled across the fascinating (and amusing) Paleo Future blog. It’s a collection of historic attempts to predict the future with associated glamorous robots and other assorted imagery. There’s also a Paleo Future Flickr group (where Matt got the name) and another one called In The Year 2000.