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A hallway conversation with Hiroshi Ishii and Lian Loke

When you have a moment to be advised by someone who leads the world in a field of enquiry, it's good to listen closely.

A fireside chat

At this year's REMIX festival I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my dear friend Mark Pesce (alongside the marvellous Simone Chua from the light sculpture and immersive design studio Amigo and Amigo) on creative entrepreneurship – here is what I wish I'd known when I started out, and what

design

Personal, tangible, emotional

A Design Fiction: ABC Ticker is a news feed delivered with your morning coffee, personalised just for you and printed on your receipt. Made with wizard-of-oz prototyping and real test users.

creativity

How Creativity Works, and How the Patent System Thinks it Works

Last week our national broadcaster hosted Edward Jung of Intellectual Ventures , a company that "has earned a special brand of hatred in the business world as the ultimate patent troll". This week they kindly allowed me to present a brief counterpoint:

collaboration

Notes from a SIGGRAPH Panel on Successful Creative Collaboration Across Time & Space

What makes collaboration work? Let's hear from Tim McLaughlin (Texas A&M University), Tommy Burnette (Lucasfilm Singapore), Tim Fields (Certain Affinity), Jonathan Gibbs (DreamWorks Animation) and David Parrish (Reel FX Creative Studios).

Strategy

Prior Art

It was an intoxicating time before the first .com crash and we filled our days with experiments in virtual worlds, multiplayer gaming, videoconferencing and other exotic attempts to figure out what to do with the new 10Mb/sec (symmetrical!) connections. And of course, internet video.

VR

The longer it takes you to catch on, the more visionary I get

Take a look at the wonderful, terrible Immersive Workspaces from Linden Lab and Rivers Run Red.

collaboration

Tap tap tap – a case study for distributed collaborative creativity.

Taptaptap make iPhone apps, but they’re not an old-fashioned development shop. Times have changed.