One week of The Guardian: Friday

Yet another ‘One Day of The Guardian’ visu­al­i­sa­tion is com­plete. Todays visual illus­trates the sheer amount of words in the paper. I wanted to do some­thing like this, some­thing rather sim­ple, as after doing some research on word counts in books I found out that I could pretty much read a book from cover to cover in the time it would take me to read through two or three issues of The Guardian! That’s alot of words, how­ever they’re arranged.

Any­ways, I wanted this to be a pre­dom­i­nantly text based visual, using all of the words in the news­pa­per to make my point. I was inspired a lit­tle by the Bea­t­les Poster by Daniel Eatock, and the Motorolla 75th Anniver­sary poster by Fibre designs. As a friend said, “it kind of throws away the idea of a 32 page paper”. After he said that it hit me that every­day some lay­out designer(s) has to fit all of this infor­ma­tion into sec­tions, sub-sections, pages, and columns. The blocked details high­light some of the more impor­tant points behind the text.

Trust me when I say, there’s alot of this text! So much infact, Illus­tra­tor nearly died at try­ing to draw all the vec­tors when­ever I moved the page or zoomed in and out.

The Series

This is one day in a series that takes the news from one week of the Guardian news­pa­per, and visu­ally rep­re­sents it as a series of sta­tic visu­al­i­sa­tions. You may also be inter­ested in:

• Mon­day – A typo­graphic and lay­out based piece pre­view­ing the con­tents of the paper as ingredients.
• Tues­day – A list of head­lines con­tained in the paper illus­trated with ref­er­ences to the arti­cle or subject.
• Wednes­day – A polar graph inspired lay­out map­ping the sto­ries and cat­e­gories on colour coded con­cen­tric circles.
• Thurs­day – A con­tent map show­ing the rela­tion­ships between infor­ma­tion inside of a cir­cu­lar container.
• Fri­day – A text heavy piece high­light­ing the sheer amount of infor­ma­tion con­tained within in the paper.
• Sat­ur­day – A grid based typo­graphic piece, show­ing pat­terns and author rela­tion­ships through the paper.