Why design the news?

Posted on December 17, 2007 by admin

As part of a pre­sen­ta­tion I have to do in a cou­ple of days, I’ve started to out­line why I’ve cho­sen to design the news for my final years project. I’ve used the NABC approach to split my thoughts into segments.

Need

Alot of the news we receive is mostly through news­pa­pers, and TV reports. This requires that the per­son be able to read, and/or under­stand the lan­guage that the news is broad­cast in. I’d like to offer peo­ple a new way of look­ing at news by sim­plfy­ing it, and per­phaps even replac­ing the words all together with pic­tures, and self descrip­tive illustrations.

I also want to explore the cat­e­gori­sa­tion of news. At the moment when news is reported on web­sites such as The Guardian or The Times, it is filed under a sub­ject head­ing or cat­e­gory. This seems pretty vague to me, as the news can be tagged in mul­ti­ple dif­fer­ent ways to make it more search­able and more rel­e­vant to the end user.

For exam­ple with a typ­i­cal news story, first file it in a gen­eral sub­ject header, fol­lowed by cat­e­gories that sit under that sub­ject, and tags that are impor­tant key­words in the story. Make sure the story is filed with the date and time and the author of the story. Also tag it’s sta­tus, whether it’s a break­ing story, a more infor­ma­tive write up, or a fol­low up story. Also whether or not it’s been updated or revised. We can then work out it’s rela­tion­ship sta­tus, and link in other arti­cles about the same story so the user can fol­low it’s development.

Metic­u­lously tag­ging the arti­cles then means we can offer accu­rate related sto­ries by date, pop­u­lar­ity, author, cat­e­gories, tags, sub­jects, and more.

Approach

To demon­strate these ideas, I want to exper­i­ment with ways of com­mu­ni­cat­ing the news visu­ally. These includes a series of posters and wall­pa­pers using graph­ics to replace words, hope­fully some ani­mated diag­nos­tics of the news, and some inter­ac­tive visu­al­i­sa­tions using news based API’s from Google­News and Digg.

I want to apply a range of visual styles to the news, using a dif­fer­ent style for each depend­ing on the head­line. This way I can cre­ate an emo­tive envi­ron­ment to frame the mes­sage of the news.

Ben­e­fits

Visu­al­is­ing the news will show peo­ple new ways of look­ing at a data form that is usu­ally heav­ily text based. It will allow the user to see an overview of the story with the embed­ded emo­tion of the graphic.

Rep­re­sent­ing the words as pic­tures will allow the peo­ple who can’t read to under­stand the news, and organ­is­ing the news into spe­cific and metic­u­lous cat­e­gories will allow appli­ca­tions to use the data to cre­ate visu­al­i­sa­tions and sys­tems that will allow the user to explore news in more depth.

Com­pe­ti­tion / Context

Map­ping and visu­al­is­ing the news is noth­ing new. It has been done before in var­i­ous ways. Jonathan Har­ris has done a num­ber of visu­al­i­sa­tions and data manip­u­la­tion projects includ­ing 10x10, and the labs at Digg.com have some really beau­ti­ful visu­al­i­sa­tions that use their social news net­work­ing data. These appli­ca­tions and oth­ers like them use the stan­dard API’s that seem to be out there, but a more detailed and cat­e­gorised story offer more options for visualisations.

Hope­fully I will be able to come up with a con­cept that uses more meta data from the sto­ries than has been used so far. At the moment, the Digg Arc seems to be the most detailed of the API visu­al­i­sa­tions offer­ing a rela­tion­ship sta­tus between the users and the story, and other sto­ries that the users have ‘Dugg’.

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The infographic army squad

Posted on December 17, 2007 by admin

I’ve been sift­ing through pages and pages of sta­tis­tics lately in order to break them down for another info­graphic piece based on the war on Iraq. Partly because its a highly con­tro­ver­sial sub­ject at the moment, and partly because there are pages and pages of sta­tis­tics on it.

For exam­ple, accord­ing to this About.com piece, the U.S. is spend­ing over $270 mil­lion a day. In just one week, that’s nearly $2 bil­lion! Think of how many schools that could build, how many hos­pi­tals, uni­ver­si­ties, and other pub­lic amenities.

In the sta­tis­tics I’ve been look­ing at it says that there have been 3,883 US sol­diers killed in Iraq, so far. That’s a pretty big num­ber, but I wanted to see how that broke down, and how many sol­diers are in a squad/platoon/battalion/etc. The fol­low­ing are all averages.

  • Squad: 5 — 10 sol­diers depend­ing on the mission.
  • Pla­toon: 15 — 40 soldiers.
  • Com­pany: 60 — 200 soldiers.
  • Bat­tal­ion: 200 –1000 soldiers.
  • Brigade: 3,000 — 5,000 soldiers.
  • Divi­sion: 10,000 — 15,000 soldiers.
  • Corps: 20,000 — 45,000 soldiers.
  • Army: 50,000 soldiers.

The Details

The image below rep­re­sents an aver­age army squad, made up of 8 sol­diers each with one spe­cial­ist skill. Of course in any squad each sol­dier will be trained in mul­ti­ple areas, but for argu­ments sake in visu­al­is­ing your aver­age squad I’ve given them all one each.

From left to right, a squad leader (in this case a Cor­po­ral), explo­sives expert, sniper, medic, grenadier, com­mu­ni­ca­tions offi­cer, rifle­man, and scout/recon.

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He who dares Rod­ders! He who dares…

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Why represent the news as pictograms and infographics?

Posted on December 13, 2007 by admin

The aim of the news is to report on the hap­pen­ings of a cer­tain sub­ject with as much detail as pos­si­ble, to be objec­tive and not sat­u­rated with sta­tis­tics, whilst keep­ing it inter­est­ing and readable.

Some news is inter­est­ing enough to read, and then you want to know more about it. With other news you can look at a head­line and skip it over as the head­line doesn’t appeal. I wanted to com­mu­ni­cate the infor­ma­tion in the story just by play­ing with the head­line. Being able to sum up the story in just a few pic­tures means instead of read­ing the head­line and mak­ing your mind up, you can see the head­line, and in see­ing the head­line graph­i­cally you see the emo­tion of the story, giv­ing you a greater insight than what you would get with words.

Pic­togram Sketches

A few screens from my sketch­book show some early pic­togram ideas, where I try to visu­alise the head­lines in small graph­ics. They are really rough ideas and gen­er­ally have a few ver­sions of graph­ics for the same words as I try to find the one that most rep­re­sents that word. When they are finally illus­trated on the com­puter they are cleaned up and simplified.

“Base­ball steroid report names star play­ers” — The Guardian

Below shows a sketch for the base­ball head­line above. First to rep­re­sent ‘base­ball’, the bat and ball. For ‘steroid’, a pill or sub­stance on its own wouldn’t of worked as it could mean any­thing, but a pill inside a bicep illus­trates the word bet­ter. “Report” is shown as a doc­u­ment. A bunch of peo­ples names rep­re­sent “names”. “Star” is pretty self explana­tory, and “play­ers” is shown as small peo­ple icons in dif­fer­ent colours.

Pictograms Sketch

“Beer sales plunge as Britons stay at home”

Below shows in order from left to right, a beer, a cash reg­is­ter, a changeover of money, an arrow point­ing down, a toi­let plunger, a per­son stood infront of a Union Jack, a hand telling the dog to stay, a stop sign, apart­ments, a house.

Yes, my sketches are usu­ally this bad, and my hand­writ­ing sucks too.Pictograms Sketch Beer

I have a bunch more sketches in my book but I really don’t want to bore you with chicken scratch hand­writ­ing and scrib­bles of things that won’t really mean much to you.

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Headlines with pictograms, part two

Posted on December 11, 2007 by admin

More play­ing with pic­tograms and head­lines today, but try­ing it on a back­ground related to the head­line story for more visual effect. Another story from the Guardian news­pa­per, this time about a ser­ial killer in Canada. Note to self, must choose hap­pier head­line next time.

“Pig farmer jailed for six mur­ders” — The Guardian

Infographics Headline Pig Farmer

Fairly red, pretty dark, kinda gritty.

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Headlines with pictograms

Posted on December 9, 2007 by admin

Well here’s the first cou­ple of exper­i­ments. The head­line was taken from the Guardian news­pa­per on beer con­sump­tion in the UK. Only the sec­ond part of the head­line was used as it had some really great words in it that made for some excel­lent pictograms.

“Do we think we’ve had enough? Beer sales plunge as Britons stay at home” — The Guardian

The first exper­i­ment was to cre­ate clear, sim­ple, dis­tin­guish­able pic­tograms that replaced the words. The words ‘as’ and ‘at’ were omit­ted as they were unnec­es­sary to the read­abil­ity of the headline.

Infographics Headline Outlines

As a sec­ond exper­i­ment, the out­lined images were tex­tured with pho­to­graphic tex­tures to enhance the sym­bols. I think doing this really makes them jump off the page.

Infographics Headline Textured

So those were my first exper­i­ments with info­graph­ics. All together it took around 12 hours or so to do, with cre­at­ing the tem­plates for future exper­i­ments and eas­ing myself back into Illus­tra­tor after a year of absence tak­ing up about a quar­ter. A lit­tle more prac­tice and I should have no trou­ble halv­ing that time. At 1280x1024 they are pretty much wall­pa­per size, if you’re so inclined. Enjoy.

Also there’s a lit­tle more of the theme com­ing into play here and there. I’d appre­ci­ate it if you let me know what you think.

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Infographics and Pictograms: A brief history and a little inspiration

Posted on December 6, 2007 by admin

Info­graph­ics and pic­tograms are used world­wide, and are seen by almost every­one in a com­mer­cial or pub­lic envi­ro­ment. Info­graph­ics are instruc­tive images, and are aimed at mak­ing some­thing com­pli­cated seem eas­ier to under­stand by graph­i­cal illus­tra­tions. Whereas pic­tograms are basi­cally rep­re­sen­ta­tive images we use to replace words or visu­alise actions, and are often seen either replac­ing or accom­pa­ny­ing a tex­tual instruc­tion. Both have been used for thou­sands of years, with vari­a­tions as cave paint­ings by early man, as Hiero­glyph­ics in ancient Egypt, and more com­monly now as instruc­tions, warn­ings, or direc­tions in pub­lic places.

What makes a good infographic/pictogram?

A good info­graphic is a solid, clean, sharp graphic, with an accu­rate depic­tion of what it is try­ing to rep­re­sent. There are no gra­di­ents, no soft edges, and no excess lines, shapes, or fills. The more you can sim­plify, the better.

Pop­u­lar info­graph­ics in main­stream design

Human Heart Love HeartThumb­nail image shows the com­par­i­son between an actual heart, and the accepted sym­bol for a heart.One of, if not, the most used info­graphic of all time is the sym­bol of a love heart. We are used to see­ing this sym­bol over and over again, yet it hardly rep­re­sents an actual human heart in the slight­est. We have been bom­barded by the com­mer­cial­ism sur­round­ing it, and told by card com­pa­nies like Hall­mark that this sym­bol is a heart, and that it rep­re­sents love and that by giv­ing a pic­ture of it on a card will show that spe­cial some­one how much you love them.

Adobe has a really great film about Mil­ton Glaser on their web­site which tells you a lit­tle about the man and his work. One of the most famous designs to incor­po­rate the heart sym­bol is the “I Love NY / I ♥ NY” logo by Mil­ton Glaser. A time­less cre­ation, it is a per­fect exam­ple of an info­graphic being accepted and embraced by a nation, and one that has now become a part of Amer­i­can pop culture.

I Love NY

Ani­mated infographics

A lovely piece of ani­ma­tion for the open­ing cred­its of ‘The King­dom’ includes a vari­ety of info­graph­ics and some cool motion typog­ra­phy. Found via InfoAes­thet­ics.

More info­graph­ics examples

If you’re really inter­ested in info graph­ics next time your in town, or any pub­lic place, take a look around. You may not see them at first as we’ve become so accus­tomed to them, but if you really look you can see them on maps, tourist infor­ma­tion cen­tres, direc­tions, road signs, banks, cof­fee shops, shop­ping cen­tres, train sta­tions, bus depots, to name just a few.

Infographic Caveman Paintings

Cave­men used to paint, amongst other things, their sur­round­ings on the wall so they would know what ani­mals and resources were in the area.

Infographic Hieroglyphics

The ancient Egyp­tians used hiero­glyph­ics to tell sto­ries of their life, their work, and their gods.

Infographic Roadsigns

British road­signs show plenty of info­graph­ics that we pass by on a daily basis. More road­signs from the Direct­Gov site.

Infographic Warning Signs

Just your bog stan­dard warn­ing signs that when ignored may melt the skin off your face and turn your bones to dust. Per­phaps not, but you can see more signs at Online-Sign.com.

Infographic Exit

You can usu­ally find lots of info­graph­ics in pub­lic places. A favourite one of mine is the ‘exit’ sign. If ever I’m in the cin­ema or the the­atre or some­where where I’m not enjoy­ing myself, I always look over and have a lit­tle laugh when I think it could be me run­ning away.

Infographic Airport Signs

Air­ports are always full of info­graph­ics as they are the direc­tions and infor­ma­tion for trav­ellers who don’t under­stand the language.

More infor­ma­tion on the font here. Infographic Webdings

The web­d­ings font has been shipped with Microsoft Win­dows for years now and con­tains a num­ber of good graph­ics in it.

A big­ger image is avail­able here, and another image of what the tube map looks like today. Infographic Harry Beck Tube Map

This is the first Lon­don tube map to be designed by Harry Beck in 1933, who stripped away the geo­graph­i­cal loca­tions of the sta­tions to leave only the lines of the tracks and show how they con­nect with each other.

Infographic Computer Icons

Com­puter icons are a good exam­ple of pic­tographs, and if you look back at them in rela­tion to the his­tory and devel­op­ment of the com­puter tech­nolo­gies, you can see how they have become over­worked with reflec­tions, gra­di­ents, and ani­ma­tions, when all we really need is a solid, accu­rate, non-distracting graph­i­cal representation.

There’s also a pic­to­graph lan­guage I’ve seen before, but right now I can’t remem­ber what it’s called or who it’s by. All I can remem­ber, is that I saw it on the back cover of a copy of either Cre­ative Review, or Com­puter Arts. I think. I’d be grate­ful if any­one can shed any light on this because I’d really like to show people.

That’s it for now then. I’ll be try­ing my own info­graph­ics and pic­tograms tomor­row, and I’ll post any more I see that I think are worth­while. Maybe you have some suggestions?

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DTN site design and review

Posted on December 5, 2007 by admin

Well the new site design is now up, and I’m get­ting well into the swing of things. I have my research all filed on my com­puter ready to post, and I’ve started sketch­ing out some ideas in detail for what I want to do. Now the site is up and designed, all I have to think about now is fill­ing it with con­tent, and that is going to start in the next cou­ple of days. Until then, I’m going to run through how I designed this site, and why I did what I did.

Plan­ning & wireframing

Layout HeatmapThumb­nail image shows mockup heatmap I wanted to cre­ate. This was the most impor­tant stage for this project. Usu­ally when mak­ing a web­site I con­cen­trate on the header and the footer, and the body seems to fall into place. With this site I gave the body much more atten­tion than usual as I wanted the con­tent to in some way mimic a news­pa­per lay­out. What I mean by that is I wanted to dis­play the infor­ma­tion in columns like a news­pa­per would, only the columns on site would flow in order of impor­tance. The main con­tent would sit on the left as the most impor­tant, fol­lowed by the semi impor­tant story high­lights in the mid­dle, with the least impor­tant side­bar com­ing up on the right.

The logo and brand

Logo ConceptsThumb­nail image shows rough logo posi­tion­ing con­cepts all of which I thought unac­cept­able. The logo took a fair amount of time for me to be happy with. I went through dozens of sketches and nearly equal amounts of revi­sions and fin­ished con­cepts. In the end I chose Times New Roman for the font. There were a cou­ple of rea­sons for this, one of them being that I can have the post head­ers in the same font as my logo with­out hav­ing to add in sIFR titles for any cus­tom font. This meant I could keep the look and the feel I was going for flow­ing across the pages.

DTN Logo

UPDATE: Logo has been tweaked. Scroll down for more.
The final colours I kept as black, white, and red. You know the old joke, “What’s black and white and red/read all over? A newspaper/A panda with a rash”. Of all the news­pa­per research I did, most of the logo colours for a wide for­mat news­pa­per were black and white (The Times, The Mail), and alot of the colours for a tabloid news­pa­per (The Sun, The Star, The News Of The World) included red.

The cir­cle and it’s posi­tion rep­re­sent con­ti­nu­ity, infin­ity, and the sym­bol for degrees, as I think that the news is sub­jec­tive, and means dif­fer­ent things to dif­fer­ent people.

The con­tent

All the way through the site on every page, I’ve tried to cre­ate the most impor­tant con­tent on the left, and stag­ger the less impor­tant on the right. The titles for the posts try to mimic the news­pa­per head­lines, being as big and as con­cise as I can make them. Each sec­tion of con­tent in a main post is split up with sec­tion head­ers, shown in a smaller font of the same family.

The footer

At the moment the footer is only show­ing about a 1/3 of its good­ies. The rest will come appar­ent in the next few days, but what it will even­tu­ally show is the lat­est piece of work from the DTN Design­Labs, and when I get around to it per­phaps a weekly net­cast on the state of the news? (Think ZeFrank only prob­a­bly not as Ze!)

Well I guess that’s it for now. I’d appre­ci­ate any com­ments if you have them. There’s prob­a­bly one or two bugs that have escaped my atten­tion so if you find any I’d be grate­ful if you could let me know. Oth­er­wise, it’s built to web­stan­dards and val­i­dates both in XHTML and CSS.

UPDATE:
After some great input from Nice Web Type’s Tim (tbrown­type) at the Flickr Nice Web Type pool, I’ve rejigged the type in the logo a lit­tle. For most peo­ple it’s going to look exactly the same, but for the detail dev­ils (like me) it’s going to look (hope­fully) better!

DTN Logo Type Fix

For bet­ter ‘after’ detail­ing, just look at the big­ger logo in the header.

ANOTHER UPDATE:
The logo has gone through a few tagline revi­sions, but I think it’s set­tled now.

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Site Plan

Posted on November 7, 2007 by admin

I’ve been work­ing alot on the image of the site and how it should nav­i­gate. I’ve knocked up a quick site plan so far which I think I’m going to sketch to.

  • Page List
    • About, infor­ma­tion on the project
    • Dis­cuss, forum for dis­cussing the news and cur­rent work
    • Labs, the base for all the exper­i­ments I will be producing
    • Net­casts, col­lec­tion of weekly news videos
    • Search & Archives, when you need to find some­thing specific
    • Con­tact, as a foot­note at the bot­tom of site
  • Side­bar content
    • Lat­est net­cast, full size playable video top of sidebar
    • RSS, sub­scrip­tion options
    • Lat­est work, link­ing to the appro­pri­ate Labs page for more detail
    • Pop­u­lar posts, to show the buzz around a subject
    • Tag index, show­ing list of tags
    • Lat­est forum top­ics, possibly?
    • Selected pages — Cat­e­gory list, dis­played on search/contact page
    • Selected pages — Blogroll, used as list of research sites

This is pretty much just scratch­ing the sur­face at the moment. It is rough, and noth­ing is set in stone yet.

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20 images to focus thoughts for the project

Posted on November 4, 2007 by admin

This was an assigned task to find twenty images that rep­re­sent the roots and scope of the project I will spend my final year work­ing on. In order to design the news effec­tively, I will be look­ing at a num­ber of dif­fer­ent angles; Data rep­re­sen­ta­tion, visu­al­i­sa­tions, user inter­ac­tiv­ity, typog­ra­phy, map­ping, graphic sto­ry­telling, seper­a­tion and group­ing of com­mon ele­ments, and dis­ect­ing the news in its cur­rent forms.

Most of the images relate to spe­cific exper­i­ments that I intend to cre­ate dur­ing the course of the final year.

Inter­ac­tive news systems

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Will be look­ing at news mul­ti­screens and inter­ac­tive news setups to see if I can dis­ect, repli­cate, and improve the interface.

Cre­at­ing the news

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In an episode of Brass Eye, Chris Mor­ris starts a war by manip­u­lat­ing the news. This was also done in the film of the James Bond series, Tomor­row Never Dies. A media mogul com­mits hor­ri­ble crimes only to report on them before any of the other news­pa­pers can.

Inter­act­ing with the news on a daily basis

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Ze Frank held a year long exper­i­ment where he reported on news events with his own per­sonal input. This was then backed up with the opin­ions of the view­ers via a forum Ze would mon­i­tor. This cycle of inter­ac­tion with the news, cou­pled with Ze’s unique brand of com­edy made the show a must watch.

Graph­i­cally rep­re­sent­ing the news

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Tak­ing news head­lines and rep­re­sent­ing them graph­i­cally as poster art.

Graph­i­cally rep­re­sent­ing the news continued

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Tak­ing news head­lines and rep­re­sent­ing them graph­i­cally as poster art.

Head­line reduction

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Tak­ing news head­lines and reduc­ing them as far as pos­si­ble but still com­mu­ni­cat­ing the message.

Reduc­ing ‘news spam’

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Alot of what is pub­lished as news is really not. Who cares if Paris Hilton goes to jail? Is this really the qual­ity of news we expect to see on the BBC?

Split­ting up a news report into sin­gle frames

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Split­ting up a news report into frames which depict the emo­tion of the news reporter, and cap­tioned with the story they are con­vey­ing at par­tic­u­lar moments in time.

News report inter­face disection

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Every news pro­gramme now has some sort of inter­face to show­case cur­rent story high­lights, upcom­ing sto­ries, some­times the time and the date, as well as other ‘infor­ma­tive’ bits. I’m going to see if I can cre­ate a more infor­ma­tive inter­face for broad­cast news using Flash.

Good news bad news

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An arti­cle pub­lished on the Guardian web­site got me think­ing about the seper­a­tion of good news and bad news.

10x10 visual news mapping

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Using the 10x10 news aggre­ga­tion ser­vice to visu­alise ways of rep­re­sent­ing the news.

Buz­ztracker news loca­tion mapping

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Track­ing the lat­est news sto­ries by loca­tion, the Buz­ztracker visu­alises hot points over a world map.

New­s­Is­Free newsmaps

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A highly advanced and cus­tomis­able newsmap from New­s­Is­Free, it allows you to change a wide array of options to map the news spe­cific to you.

Maru­mushi newsmaps

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A beau­ti­ful look­ing newsmap from Maru­mushi. Very cus­tomis­able, beau­ti­fully ani­mated, and colour categorised.

news­cubes

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Newsmap­ping in a 3d envi­ron­ment, using a cube to hold the news data with a dif­fer­ent cat­e­gory on each face.

Dynamic news timeline

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An inter­ac­tive time­line which pulls the lat­est news from a list of dif­fer­ent sources and dis­plays them as a cat­e­gorised timeline.

News aggre­ga­tor

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Aggre­ga­tion of news sources to be dis­played in a user des­ig­nated for­mat to offer news per­son­alised for the indi­vid­ual. Pop­urls aggre­gates feeds, but does not offer a page per­son­alised for the individual.

Visu­al­is­ing News — DiggArc

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The Dig­gArc is a way of visu­al­is­ing the sto­ries sub­mit­ted to the social news net­work­ing site, digg.com. The arc colour cat­e­gorises the pop­u­lar sto­ries, and links them based on the users who have ‘dugg’ them.

Visu­al­is­ing News — DiggBigSpy

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The Dig­gSpy is another way of visu­al­is­ing the sto­ries sub­mit­ted to digg.com. This one stacks the lat­est sto­ries on top of one another, and increases the text­size based on the popularity.

Ani­mated Typography

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I’m a big fan of ani­mated typog­ra­phy, and I was think­ing I’d like to record a story from some­thing like BBC News 24 and ani­mate it typo­graph­i­cally. That might be nice? Here’s another good typog­ra­phy animation.

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Hello world!

Posted on October 23, 2007 by admin

Wel­come to DesigningTheNews.com, part of a final year uni­ver­sity study into mul­ti­me­dia design and tech­nolo­gies, a site which will doc­u­ment my research and devel­op­ment of rep­re­sent­ing and inter­act­ing with news and infor­ma­tion data.

What does this mean?

As I explore how news is viewed, col­lected, read, stored, and updated, all of my research will be posted incre­men­tally on here. It will be a place to gather my tech­ni­cal exper­i­ments of work­ing with live data feeds, and to show­case some of my more ‘designed’ pieces of work.

I guess that’s it for an intro­duc­tion. Stay tuned for a cus­tom site design, as well as upcom­ing research and exper­i­ments, and hope­fully some thought­ful views and opin­ions on what’s hap­pen­ing in the world of news.

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