tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66962010879500992042011-10-31T14:00:20.974ZA WIDE ANGLED VIEW OF THE VISUAL NEWSMichael Agarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798582148168705386noreply@blogger.comBlogger1701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6696201087950099204.post-22737354010043062622011-01-08T23:59:00.003Z2011-01-09T00:22:05.464Z

Data as ArtThere is something both arresting and appealing about this visualisationCalming, and slow enough to understand the informationWith thanks to Jeff Cambron who writes:A new project with GE, the science of dynamic breaking (a key to GE's in-development hybrid diesel-electric trains) gets broken down via super slow motion video captureBasically it is a simple illustration of the physics

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SND: Multimedia and interactive awards winners of 2009The Best of Multimedia Design winners were awarded at the 2009 Society for News Design annual workshop and exhibition in Buenos Aires on Sept. 24. The competition recognizes skill, innovation and high-quality visual journalism in Web and other new-media design with quarterly and annual awardsDeservedly so, as their work is completely top-notch

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Pakistan: drone strike doubleEx-Telegraph infographic genius Ciaran Hughes has produced this excellent flash interactive for Channel 4 tv network, his new office since leaving later this yearIn the last 12 months there have been at least 113 attacks by secret US drones in Pakistan's mountainous Waziristan region. It is double the number of strikes in 2009, which itself saw a dramatic

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F1 glamor from the Middle EastAgain, the most fantastic and innovative work coming from Luis Chumpitaz and his teamAmazing detail, over many spreads in an entire print-run devoted to the coverage of Formula One, in graphic formA huge project similar to the award-winning Olympic project poster set design by the very same manBeautiful and well deliveredWonderful!Merry Christmas

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NYT maps every city and every block in the United StatesA wonderful interactive, as always, from the New York TimesBased on samples taken from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey during 2005 and 2009, this interactive enables us to understand the distribution breakdown of racial and ethnic groups across the countryLooking at the data viz in the map of Manhattan, check out the ethnic

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Kevin Nolan v LiverpoolInfographic premonition from Alan SmithSmith, the author of the column in the Telegraph Sport section, writes;"Pardew must ensure proper Carroll service. Rather than try to beat his full-back, Barton [Joey] has made a habit this season of swinging in crosses from anything up to 30 yards out. And if the delivery is right this afternoon, Carroll will fancy his chances of

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New Zealand mine explosion at Pike RiverWe've cobbled together this infographic on the recently redesigned Telegraph website, which shows where the mine is, and where the access tunnel meets the "coal seam"Basic graphicBut adds to the reporting

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Chile miners infographic from the TimesI completely forgot to pass this onBusy timesIndeed a busy time at The TimesThis was printed the day of the rescueRead it, paw over it. It had everythingI don't often like the "kitchen sink" approach to graphics, but I have to admit that I really did likeAbove all - it feels like the team at the Times had fun;With the researchWith the planningWith the

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Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – update from Channel4Looking forward to seeing more animator Ian Watkins

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Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – excellent animation work from Channel4Click here to see their TV animationThanks to Ciaran Hughes

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Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – online at the TelegraphConrad Quilty-Harper, Data Reporter for Telegraph.co.uk has been updating the content online, and building the graphicsClick here to view the full graphic

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Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – more amazing interactivesGreat work at the BBCClick here to see the wonderful animated infographics that show everything you need to knowReally well rendered, they remind me of the great work that came out of el Pais and el Mundo of Spain in late nineties and the turn of the millenniumI would love to see what Rafa Hohr is up to with the Sunday Times, but

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Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine: latest infographics from Sunday newspapersThe Independent on Sunday eschewed the trend for "rock textures" to give a stylised guide to the rescue. Informative, and designed to work with the page, the "yellow brick road" approach offers quite a lot of bite-sized information in a small space. Also important to note the reappearance of Glenn Swan's byline in

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Globe and Mail goes greenThe Globe And Mail finally unveiled it's new redesign on FridayMoving away from broadsheet (pic1) to a slightly larger than Berliner format (pic2), The Globe And Mail is now full-colour throughout and uses glossy paper for certain areas of the paperThe new KBA Commander CT presses provide unparalleled colour and registration quality coupled with an extremely fast output.

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Lifetime achievement award: Javier ErreaHere is a transcript from the SND websiteJavier has had an incredibly broad impact in our industry. It’s an impressive list. So let’s get to it! First, there’s the design work he’s done with Innovation International Media Consulting Group and his own company, Errea Comunicación. His team, based in Pamplona, Spain, specializes in newspaper design, editorial,

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Enjoy the best of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph with our new iPad appThe app brings you the editors' selections from our award winning daily newspaper – from the sharpest political reporting to in-depth sports analysis and must-read columnistsThe best includes UK news, World news, Sport, Business, Comment, Features and Analysis and award winning cartoonist of the year, Matt

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Pope's visit to the UKPope Benedict XVI will visit the UK this week, during which he will beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, putting him on the Path to sainthoodTwo very different interactives from Telegraph.co.uk and the GuardianOur insightful Telegraph offerings, focus on history of Catholicism and diocese data, where as the Guardian has also excellent background information on Newman and

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Deadly Genomes and Virus around the worldThe chart shows the genomes of a variety of bacteria and virus that cause disease among usEach coloured line represents the genome of the bacterium or virus. The size of the genome and percentage of the guanine or cytosine (both are paired with in the double-stranded DNA) are also noted. This is labeled as GC contentThis great and fascinating project by

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The fantastic Mr EstebanJuan Antonio Giner of Innovation has produced a worthy homage to Chiqui Esteban who leads the New Visual Naratives department of lainformacion.com in MadridHis team: he, Carlos Gamez and Sarah PottsYes3! (three)They use Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Cinema 4d, Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, Premiere and Click2Map for Google MapsJAG commentsChiqui and Carlos are fast like the

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A bee hive of activity of world wide flights in 24 hrsAs the light of day moves across from east to west, you can see evening air traffic leaving the United States overnight to arrive in UK and Europe in the morningAs nightfall spreads east, see the flow change, leaving Europe to arrive in AmericaHow many people are in the sky at any given moment?Fascinating

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Councils spending millions on website redesigns as job cuts loomA Telegraph.co.uk interactive shows the fees for the revamps, which come on top of salaries, were criticised by campaigners who say money would be better used ensuring workable internet access for residentsOne council refreshed the look of its website eight times in a decade, another paid more than thousand pounds for a spellchecker

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Cloned cow chaos born of supreme champion cow from United StatesFrom a prize winning cow in Wisconsin to Nairn near Innverness in ScotlandIn today's Daily Telegraph, Gordon Rayner provides great insight into the scandalReconstruction (infographic) of events:Mark Rueth, a farmer in Oxford, Wisconsin, paid £9,800 ($15,500) to Cyagra Clone, a genetics firm, to create a copy of his Holstein cow,

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NYT Stop, Question and Frisk interactiveClick here to enjoy another fantastic data interactive by the NYTNew York City’s police force, in its fight against crime, has increasingly used a strategy known as “stop, question and frisk,” which allows officers to stop someone based on a reasonable suspicion of crime. One expert has estimated New Yorkers are stopped at twice the national rateCircles

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Top Secret America investigation by the Washington PostToday, the third installment of the Washington Post's investigation into the growth of top-secret government work after Sept. 11, 2001, takes readers to the capital of Top Secret America. Fort Meade, anchors the largest of a dozen clusters of top-secret government organizations and the companies that do work for them.They are in otherwise

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Inside the New York Times graphics department with GestaltenGestalten.tv in Berlin, have produced THE MUST SEE interview with Steve Duenes, Graphics Director and Archie Tse, Graphics Editor of the NYT. The graphic department at the NYT have won countless awards for their ground-braking and peerless graphic journalism. This video podcast offers an incredible insight into the minds of two leaders

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Daily and Sunday Telegraph: Infographics vacancySenior Graphics positionTelegraph Media GroupLondonJob DescriptionTelegraph Media Group are offering this exciting and unique opportunity for a Senior Graphics position in the production of daily and weekend graphics of our two newspaper titles and expanding online empireYou will work closely with Editors, reporters and Design Directors to help them

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King Carles of Spain ready to rule the worldSpain pay homage to Catalonia (i couldn't resist) with the special "Barca" relationship between Puyol and XaviLook at Carles Puyol's eye contact with Xavi Hernandez i Cruz on the back page of today's IndependentGreat photojournalismXavi supplied the cross from the corner that was met by the skull of PuyolThis moment needs no words – they have playing

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World Cup infographic innovationIn a series for each country of the 24 who started the finals in South Africa, Luis Chumpitaz, Graphics Director for Al Bayan (designed by Innovation) in the Emirates, and his team have created wonderful infographics, like this example of GermanyBut here's the beef...The total supplement and each infographic are in Arabic and EnglishIs this a first in the world of

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Battle of Britain – 70 years onThe battle in graphic form, in last weekend's Sunday Telegraph's Battle of Britain eight page supplement, which I hope to post this weekSo rare these days to work on projects, time to think, time to developOver a week or two, Stefan Bayley and Ciaran Hughes played a blinder with visualising the content, and Fiona Mattias as always, steered the supplement,

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Battle of Britain – 70 years onYes - ironic the day Germany's fantastically talented and youthful team, knock out a bunch of over-paid failures, the Sunday Telegraph produced a wonderful "Battle of Britain" supplementInside it told the story of the summer of 1940; The Spitfire – the envy of the enemy and historical by authors James Holland and Brian MiltonThere was also a full-page broadsheet

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Britain's Boom to BustEd Conway, the Telegraph's economics editor, talks us through Britain's boom and bust using eight key graphs – savings, GDP the FTSE and unemployment to name but a fewThese graphs, with the aid of audio narrative, give key insight to the UK economyImportantly, Conway talks to the graphsThe dataThe visual factsWithout these key visual facts, it would be hard for the viewer/

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Book review [The Designer's Graphic Stew]How exciting. To be offered design books to reviewThe Designer's Graphic Stew, is much much more than what the cover showsBy Timothy Samara, his "visual ingredients, techniques, and layout recipes" really does feel like a book for our kitchen shelf. In this, his seventh published book on design and typography, Samara uses "menu" metaphor for structure,

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World Cup Goals – but don't make the newsThe goal infographic should have made ALL the print editions of this Sunday's TelegraphSteven Gerrard's 4th minute goal would have given us plenty of time to produce the goods for the first editionFine.Stefan Bayley and Ciaran Hughes rolled up their sleeves edited the text and imagery. Celebration pics and the glorious annotated England goal ready to

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Behind the paywall: interactives from the Sunday TimesAnd here we goRemember the fantastic online interactives from El Pais in the late nineties and early noughties?The genius behind those incredible Spanish clickable guides is now at the Sunday TimesRafa Hohr, with John Smith's talented bunch have created this entertaining infographic which shows how engineers have been battling to stem the flow

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WC2010: Will the US turn up?OKWe all make mistakes, annoyinglyBut is this a mistake, or a complete cock-up?Granted, Brazil will host the World Cup in 2014, but to confuse South America with South Africa, for the graphics editor to OK the job, for the news editor of channel WGN of Chicago to sign off the visuals before the on-air report...WOWSome commentators are offering the WGN graphics

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Oil spill trackerA fantastic interactive by the New York Times which allows the user to track the spill from the initial blowoutBut the detail is also in the graphic reporting... About the Oil Slick Areas Shown on the Map The “probable extent” of the oil slick is an estimate by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of where oil is mostly likely to go based on wind and ocean current

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Celebrity infographics on TVA cracking editorial decision by John Mullin, editor of the recently redesigned Independent on Sunday to question the Lib-Con coalition government and its "deep, deep splits on the environment"The front page headline reads:"Do blue and yellow really make green?"Sometimes infographics and design transcend the usual "fill the square, headline and tick the box"

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FTSE 350 executive pay interactiveExecutive pay is more important as ever as the economy struggles to emerge from the recessionDavid Kinross has developed this interactive flash guide with Richard Blackden to track which of the 50-best paid execs from the FTSE 350 companies enjoy the highest salaries and the biggest cash bonusesYou can also click to see how share prices of the companies they work

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UK Election infographicsNice clean infographics from the Guardian, Independent, FT and the Daily Telegraph todayAnd a great proportional representative map from the FT which included constituency names and a label in each corner where a 'swing' had occurred and a colour tab to show from which partyAnd check out the various online result interactives on the above linksThe Guardian has devoted

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Independent on Sunday election coverageAgain, Cath Levett and the IoS provide the goodsElection clarityAnd a true guide the your election!1 On the night possible swings2 The seats and battlegrounds to watch produced on a "proportional representation" map3 The morning after possible scenarios and outcome for the new or hung parliamentAnd following from my earlier post regarding proportional

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Excellent graphic by the New York TimesAnd a great blog by JAGHe thinks that Spain could be the next GreeceInterestingly he comments that the Spanish bankruptcy will destroy the Euro and damage the economies of the French, German and the BritishExpect a bigger crisis

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NYT bombtasticFantastic breaking news infographic by the New York TimesUsing Google Earth to create the 'scene' and usual Photoshop and Illustrator techniques to edit the visualsThis print graphic and also published online enabling 'links' to connect with other video and related articlesHere is the NYT timelineThe Events Saturday Night6:28 p.m The Nissan S.U.V. first appears on surveillance

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Powerful words from Juantxo CruzHe is a man that cares about his art, his profession, his newspaper but most importantly his readersHe cares about the "man on the street"That was a really crazy work. Modesto J. Carrasco and Isabel González were the creative directors of the Gran Via Poster I only did the coordination of all the team [and was] 1.82 meters long We had a meeting with Madrid

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Caviar gráfico en gran víaI am waiting for more images and quotes from Juantxo Cruz – the Head of Infographics at El Mundo newspaper in MadridI'm afraid that this is another example of wonderful showcase visual journalism from his teamI think i'm write is thinking the poster graphic shows the entire history of every building on the "Great Way" – the ornate and upmarket shopping street in Spain's

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Saving St PetersburgSt Petersburg is under threat from the sea and its new flood barrier should protect it for centuriesI don't know whether it compares with the Venetian example, but would be interesting to know otherwiseSitting above the 6.5 meter high embankment will be a six lane motorway running from Bronka in the south, to Gorskaya in the northBut a great infographic reference, and

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How you should vote interactiveOn the Telegraph website you can click through a question and answer guide to find out how you should voteI was surprisedAnd so were many in the Graphics departmentSome were not as 'liberal' as they thoughtGood fun, but serious

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History of the House of CommonsThis House of Commons timeline shows the political make-up of Parliament from 1885The interactive by David Kinross for the Telegraph's General Election coverage is a fantastic history lesson and archive for researchers, teachers and studentsEnjoy this interactive caviar

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Swing low swingometer for the General ElectionI forgot to mention this while fighting fires and responding to the governments call of the electionAlthough cliched, this was an excellent graphic by Stefan Bayley at the TelegraphIt clearly shows what David Cameron and the Conservatives need to do in their uphill task of winning an increasingly-unlikely election victoryGreat stuff

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General Election leaders' TV debateIts party time, the 2010 election has finally started, and Nick Clegg has smashed through the "two-party system" in the historic TV debate on ITV tonightThe Telegraph’s verdictBenedict Brogan says Cameron stayed calm but Clegg got the creamJanet Daley believes there was no clear winnerAnd the Telegraph explains that Clegg used the first TV debate to best effectI

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Grey London adds colour to BA dealSlightly behind with the news, apologies, but I collected these graphics last weekIt is a huge deal, and the Guardian headline to the editorial "British Airways name to vanish from FTSE if Iberia merger succeeds" – slightly summed up the weight of the storyBut apart from the two loss making businesses holding each other up, like two drunks trying to find their

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More Infographic caviar from the ObserverPete Guest is working his mojoVery easy to understand information, that is visualAnd guess where the gutter is, and a good spotI've seen infographics go over the gutter and text is lostDisaster!Nice work, clean messages from clean designBoner!

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Total pixelatiaWatch this short movie by Patrick Jean on DailymotionIncredible8-bit creature invasion on New YorkRead more here on Wired web siteWritten and directed by PJDirector of Photography is Matias BoucardThanks to Tim Dog

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Oxford | Cambridge Boat race special in the Daily TelegraphThis special appeared last Saturday for the university boat race, which was won by CambridgeDesigned by Wayne Caba, and the boat illustration by Mark Oliver, it was a visual jollyGood fun which also informsPerfecto!

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Top Notch Ninfographics from Ninian Carter's new siteFormer Graphics Editor at the Observer, Reuters, Sydney Morning Herald and now at the Globe and Mail in TorontoHis award winning portfolio is vast well worth flicking throughHave a look at his news sitewww.ninian.net

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Elections erections: its go go timeAll the nationals gave it large on Tuesday, massive editorials, mega party-leader pics and huge amounts of infographicsThe Times advertised an election map "Free inside" on their mastheadWe at the Daily Telegraph produced the UK's favorite election tool – the swingometer – what seats Cameron must win to swing the election in favor of the ConservativesA huge

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Moscow blasts: UK breaking news mapsMaps in Tuesday's news sections, yes Foreign news that has made it to the Home news sectionAlmost beggars belief, here we start with the Times on page 3, and then we have the Independent, the Guardian, the FT and finally the Daily Telegraph with a map/graphic on their Foreign pagesInteresting that the Independent, the Guardian and the FT all have included the

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Guardian mountain of debtMore genius from the GuardianSomething which most colleagues pointed outAnd they are right, it is greatLook at how the graphic compares the 2009-10 forecast with Alistair Darling's reportThe ghost of that past, haunting our futureClick here for the fab journalism

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NYT – the art of total journalismThis online report by the New York Times, is possibly, one of the finest of any modern journalism, shows us that the efficiency of footwork is the key to Federer's successIntroduced as a winner in Pamplona, its got the lotYou don't need to be a tennis fan to love thisFor me – the bestVoice over from a tennis coach, animation, diagrammatics, video footage and

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Malofiej18 – Rubio display at the opening ceremony and summit hallA few weeks have passed since the wonderful Malofiej18 world summit at the HQ of infographics in Pamplona, northern SpainIt now feels OK to show this 'rough' video, taken with my iPhone, of a display of Rubio Fernando's work from Diario 16 and mainly ABCAlthough the video is not of great quality, and maybe to small, but we can

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Robin Hood tax for the richWhat do Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and Robin Hood have in common?Quite a lot according to the latest number crunchers at the Institute for Fiscal StudiesAs we can see from the charts above from the Independent, Financial Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, all sourced from the IFS, that the three consecutive Labour governments have redistributed our

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FT 'the new Google experience'There you goA rather jolly, clean and crisp infographic from the FTUtterly simpleIt works

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Malofiej18: John Grimwade reports from the Jumping JesterGrimwade comments today on the SND website, that you get a very good idea of what is going on in infographic departments around the world, from one bar in Spain - the unofficial HQ of infographicsSo, in a somewhat scary atmosphere of smoke and blasts of infographic hot air, you can get a very good idea of what is happening in graphics

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Boys toys infographicsMy son and his friend have worked on this 'theatre of war'They like traditional illustration styles, as it is all they have in their visual toolboxTanks, helicopters, landing pads, HQ and 'barrak'And the drivers of the tanks have blue heads, but near the first helicopter there is a random headBuildings have perspective, and the paras have chutes attached to their

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Visualising content – the debate continuesFurther to my comments on 'illustrative historical and scientific infographics', there is currently an interesting debate on Max Gadney's blog under the 'Popular Science' postingMax and Ciaran Hughes have exchanged views on these works, the styles of the late Peter Sullivan and where we can redevelop our techniques and communication devicesMax has put

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Malofiej18: 'Best of Show' nerdThis is Thomas Molén the author of the 'best of show' award at Malofiej 18 in PamplonaHis title for his presentation was 'The Infographics Nerd' or in Spanish 'El Idiota de los Infographicos'And to be honest, it was probably the finest ever delivered, well apart from anything by Geoff McGheePlease take a look at the trailer on Gert Nielson's site '

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Man Utd back to the top of the PremiershipFans favorite Ji-Sung Park scores the winner with a cracking diving header against LiverpoolRead match reports from Telegraph, Guardian and The TimesBut look at the first clip - where are the Liverpool defenders?There are three Man Utd players in the 6 yard box, and only one of LiverpoolSurely Alan Hansen has something to say about this in his column in

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Infographic Caviar from Pete Guest at the recently redesign The ObserverIllustrative historical and scientific infographics really do please readersJust pick up a copy of National Geographic magazine and look at their quality visual journalismTheir 22 awards at the latest Malofiej awards is justifiedI don't know whether The Observer plans to do this every week in the DiscoveryBut I think it is

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Jaro visualises Malofiej18Fantastic illustrator from Berlin Jaroslaw Kaschtalinski, has captured his memories of the Show Don't Tell with John Grimwade and Juan Velasco, and the Malofiej Infographics World Summit in Pamplona from earlier this monthCheck out his website http://dub99.com/Jaro is a world class illustrator, who also produces animation, character design, story boarding and game

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Edward Tufte: Beautiful EvidenceIn this rare appearance in England for Intelligence Squared, Edward Tufte will discuss his theories of visual thinking and analytical design at the Royal Geographical SocietyTufte has been described by the New York Times as the “da Vinci of data” and by Business Week (thanks for the pic) as the “Galileo of graphics.”May 19, and tickets are £20Chart and Infographic

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Today is the first day of the Cheltenham festivalLike most large racing meets, betting fever takes holdThis is Andy Blenkinsop of the infographics department at the TelegraphLook how passionately he watches my screen, a screen which is now devoted to horse racing aloneThe energy of the horse, and the power of a cash returnOn the nose!

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Various people will bow be attending the show and tell with greathero's of mine like geoff, john, juan and alberto. Yes they sound likea Latino jazz quartet but they superheros of visual journalismBut I leave tomorrow morning, and eventually get to Pamplona at somepoint late afternoonSent from my iPhone

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Future of our NHSIn a series of the future of health care this week, the Daily Telegraph has and will look at major parts of how our national health service works, how it compares to other mass employers around the globe and where will the future lie for our state run operationCoordinated by the mighty Richard Preston, under his editing authors, writers and professors alike have commented and

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Winter Olympics: Curling infographicThe second of five graphics to be published in the Daily and Sunday TelegraphThis graphic published in today's paper was researched and produced by Ciaran HughesIt shows the very simple rules and how to playKeeping with the colours and style set for the series, the infographic is lively, fun and sooo easy to understand. Which are but just a few of Ciaran's many

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Winter Olympics: Bobsleigh infographicThe first in a series of graphics to be published in the Daily and Sunday TelegraphResearched and produced by Stefan Bayley, it shows course, the sled and the all important startAmazingly, as you can see in the example, 'that prior racing shoes, which have small spikes on the soles, wire brushes were used to aid grip on the ice...'

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FantasticI hope that this works as I am trying to blog from my seat on the trainThe image was shot in the office from my iPhone and colourised with the Photoshop appiPhone caviar

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Data Visualisation and Quantitative Easing explained by Ciaran Hughes in the Daily TelegraphThe idea, initiated by a infographic which appeared in the Guardian last yearThe tried and tested theory of using 'shapes' to 'show' data volume, this example had as many critics in the newsroom as admirersMaybe the graphic was a little 'modernistic' to explain the story on the front page of the

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The highway between Kabul and Jalalabad with scenes of beauty and terrorA fantastic online editorial by the NYT illustrates the danger for most Afghans who dare to drive along the country's most treacherous road, where scores are killed or injuredThe Kabul-to-Jalalabad road was paved for the first time by the West German government in 1960. In the 1980s, it was almost entirely obliterated during

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Infographics News: What are you sending to Malofiej18There are some fantastic infographic examples sent to Chiqui Esteban's blog Infographic News from Cath Levett of the Independent on SundayEsteban's 'no contest just sharing' share-a-thon is attracting many examples from various newspapers around the world, of what they would or might send to the University of Navarra's Malofiej Infographic

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The new McLaren MP4-25A cool, clean graphic by Andrew BlenkinsopYesterday the McLaren team unveiled the 2010 car for the new F1 seasonJenson Button, last years champion, has joined the previous champion Lewis HamiltonFor the first time in a long time, there will be two bloody good drivers in the same team, competing for top spot, and winning points for the constructors championshipNormally lesser

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Fernando Rubio Diario 16 infographicsJuantxo Cruz, the Head of Graphics at El Mundo, Madrid, has pointed me in the direction of some super infographic examples from Diario 16 which he has posted on his blogRubio's brutally direct examples covered the Falklands War from April to May 1982Yes 1982, almost 28 years agoPlease take a look at the examples on Juantxo's blogThe work is very graphic, and

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Daily Telegraph then and nowA little under thirty six years separate these two front pagesThe first from August 1974, the second from January 2010The format then was 394mm x 600mm, and is now 371mm x 575On clearing out her mother's house, my neighbour found old copies of the DT. This front page happens to present one of the biggest political stories not only in the US, but around the worldOur

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In rememberance: Fernando RubioHead of Infographics at ABC newspaper in Madrid, Fernando Rubio has sadly passed awayBecause of his important works as a visual reporter, and as an industry leader in Spain, he will be remembered by all who have worked with Fernando at ABC, and all who met him, as I did at many Malofiej awards dinners in Pamplona, and evenings in the Jumping JesterNot only a friend,

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Emerging from recession?Britain yesterday officially crawled out from recession, and our glorious media presented the same data in many ways and guisesWhich is greatEven in the Daily Telegraph we have to graphics, from the front of the Business section, and the other from inside the main News book, showing differing display methods using the same quarterly GDP dataSquire John Bradley rather

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Guardian spreads the dataA comprehensive data report out in the UK today shows the state of our nationHarriet Harman calls it an 'Inequality bible'Over a double truck, the Guardian in print, and in their data blog, have created the space to visualise the data, and reported on by Tom ClarkYou can also download the data from this linkNice work!

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What are you sending to Malofiej 18?Chiqui Esteban, the genius at la informacion – Mario Tascon's online news project – wants designers and infografista's to send examples to his blog Infographics News in English, and Infografistas en EspañolCiaran Hughes, genius at the Telegraph, is sending Señor Esteban great examplesThe will be shown on Chiqui's blog on FridayEsteban says:...many departments

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Haiti disaster cartographyThey've done it again at the New York TimesTo coin a phrase from my good friend JAG at Innovation, this is pure infographic caviarSuper text and visual reporting, supporting a very impressive topographic relief mapHowever does the wonderful rendering of the mountain range enable us to understand which areas of Port-au-Prince are badly effected by the earthquake?Is the

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Malofiej18: World infographic SummitIts time to send your finest infographics to Pamplona – the location of the world infographics summit in Navarra, SpainAs they are called the 'Oscars' of visual journalism, all eyes for the prize will be on SND-E from the 7-12 MarchThe call for entries 2010 has a deadline of 5 Feb, and the pdf can be downloaded here

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Bin Ladens network cracks onAlways basing themselves where there is trouble and strife, are al-Qaeda back in town?According to Con Coughlin in the Daily Telegraph:while intelligence officials say it is impossible to estimate the total number of al-Qaeda activists worldwide, the emergence of Yemen as a major terrorist training and recruitment centre... is now major concernI'm not doubting this at

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New emperors clothes?A good friend and colleague at the Telegraph commentsIn an ageing population, as we have in the UK, and in the middle of a financial crisis, an object that whilst a marvel is quite unobtainable financially to the young, and intellectually to the elderly. Plus why do they always scroll down? If it is going to be a giant ipod touch when will someone produce a website that

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Baby its cold outsideI took a few pics with my mobile phone around my small village in OxfordshireThe very county, where which the village of Benson, as reported in the Telegraph, that residents today awoke to find the outside temperature a teeth-chattering -17.7C (0.14F)Popular opinion says that it is lunacy to try and get to the local train station for LondonMany are staying indoors, working

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Fine work by the Guardian todayInfographic analysis, a column wide showing UK GDP sector share between 1970 and 2007For example in 1970 'manufacturing' was 31.7%, whereas two years ago it checkout out at 12.4% of the UK's core money spinnerApologies for the poor scan, but the graphic is so clear, and well conceived that only a complete numpty can not see the extremely clear, sector comparisons,

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The world's first climate change refugeesThey are not please with their new-found notoriety, but the inhabitants of the Carteret Islands, after their 300 year history, will be uprooted and evacuated from their homesThe cause: rising sea levelsWhere the once white beaches made the island a secret idyll, the highest point now only stands 5ft above sea levelAn interactive, by scrolling down the home

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'Queen bees' making a cottage industry from their writingSix women writers intend to revolutionise the book trade by publishing from their homesThey have set up an imprint company called Queen Bee Press and their first collection is out nowCalled 'The Leap Year' the anthology charts transformational moments in twelve women's lives over the consecutive months of the year. Each story is set in a

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Strongholds of Hakimullah MehsudPlease forgive the late posting of this infographicAn important story at the time, four weeks ago, but how the news event developed, or the current status of the Pakistan offensive, is a complete mystery to meThe last report by the Telegraph is here, accompanied with video. After battling since October 17, Pakistani troops gained control of Kotkai, which is the

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Astute launched into the high seasBritain's latest £1.2bn submarine was launched this weekIt will never need refueling in its 25 year, nuclear lifeThe Astute, as Thomas Harding writes in the Telegraph, will be able to detect the QE2 cruise liner leaving New York harbour from the English ChannelAnd obviously great fodder for infographicsCutaway drawings, maps and simple explosive diagrams, the

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Britain's nuclear futureAnother story to my earlier blog on the shooting of UK soldiers in Nad-e-AliHere are two infographics, showing the SAME information in a similar wayThe Guardian produced clean and clear interactive, with good text narrative per new plantThe Daily Telegraph, above, shows sites where the new plants will be built, sites currently in use and those which have been shut downJust

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New grids and visuals with impactNews International's creative maestro Alfredo Trivino, talks about his recent project on YouTubeTrivino's working theory: "trying to create a very organic and flexible design – a content driven design"Using the colours and tones from Australian art, he approached the new colour palette from the incredibly rich red tones from the earth and the beautiful blues from

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London lays host to many great architectural delightsAnd the super Westminster Bridge is no different, connecting north of the river to the south and positioned beneath the PHALLIC Big BenFinanced by PRIVATE capital, lotteries and grants, the bridge was designed by the Swiss architect Charles Labelye and was built between 1739-1750By mid 19th century it was subsiding badly and expensive to

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Three versions of one news eventWhich infographic right?I guess we should ask 'how much do I now know'None seem wrong, although how would we ever know?Local sources communicate to 'stringers' and provide information for our news deskAt which point does information become interpretation?It is generally assumed that we infographers should only 'show what we know'If the 'know' is reported to us as '

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