Monthly Archives: February 2008
DesigningTheNews.com + CSS Galleries = Traffic!
Ooooh well. Over the past couple of days there’s been a rather large surge of visitors to the site, thanks to the readers of some of the internets’ best web design and css galleries! Seen as though this site is … Continue reading
Newspapers, books, and rather large word counts
After collecting all the data for One Week Of The Guardian, I’ve been looking through the statistics. One thing that struck me was the amount of words in the news for all 6 days, Monday to Saturday. In one week, … Continue reading
One week of The Guardian: Statistics Collection
For an upcoming visual series on designing the news contained in the Guardian newspaper, I’ve been data mining through a weeks worth of the papers, Monday to Saturday (Sundays’ issue is the Observer so no Guardian then), and disecting all … Continue reading
One week of The Guardian plan
Last week The Media Centre in Huddersfield held a four day workshop to help develop our projects further for the final year. During the workshops were four presentations by various people from the design industry; Steve Teruggi of Winkreative and … Continue reading
Illustrated headlines, part three
Yet another headline from The Guardian newspaper. Incase you’re not picking up on this, there’s a pattern forming here. I read The Guardian. I’m saving reading The Sun, or the News Of The World for a later date, partly because … Continue reading
Illustrated headlines, part two
UPDATE: Have re-tweaked the image to further degrade the appearance of the boat. Another headline from The Guardian, this time it’s a front page story. With ships. Carrying booty. On the sea. And maybe pirates? I hope there’s pirates. Arrrr. “True … Continue reading
Illustrated headlines, part one
From reading the paper the other day, I sketched out a few drawings of headlines to work with. I haven’t really been very good with sketching anything accurately, but I figured I’ll give it a go and clean it up … Continue reading
Serial and Parallel relations
After just completing a static news visualisation, I realised the way I linked the stories and authors together was in a serial fashion. That is to say, I linked the stories along a path that progressed from one story to … Continue reading
One day of The Guardian
Recently I’ve been working on some static visualisations of news, and decided to create a poster with all of the news printed in the Guardian newspaper for one day. I played about with a couple of versions, trying to create … Continue reading