Pakistan: drone strikes

Pakistan: drone strike double

Ex-Telegraph infographic genius Ciaran Hughes has produced this excellent flash interactive for Channel 4 tv network, his new office since leaving later this year

In 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 spike, bringing the total number of attacks under President Obama to an estimated figure of 166. That marks an increase of nearly 300 per cent compared with the last four years of the Bush presidency

Quite a tasty dish me thinks

Mapping, histogram and data viz

Its got the lot in such a small space

Speaking of iPad's and flash, is there any updates on when we can view flash-based interactives on the apple tablet..?

If not, then Flash to some extent is surely redundo

I hope this Apple/Adobe situation is remedied

F1 glamor from the Middle East

F1 glamor from the Middle East

Again, the most fantastic and innovative work coming from Luis Chumpitaz and his team

Amazing detail, over many spreads in an entire print-run devoted to the coverage of Formula One, in graphic form

A huge project similar to the award-winning Olympic project poster set design by the very same man

Beautiful and well delivered

Wonderful!

Merry Christmas

New Zealand mine explosion

New Zealand mine explosion at Pike River

We'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 graphic

But adds to the reporting

Chile miners [6]

Chile miners infographic from the Times

I completely forgot to pass this on

Busy times

Indeed a busy time at The Times

This was printed the day of the rescue

Read it, paw over it. It had everything

I don't often like the "kitchen sink" approach to graphics, but I have to admit that I really did like

Above all - it feels like the team at the Times had fun;

With the research

With the planning

With the drawing

With the design

Hats off!

Thanks to Matt Swift!

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine [2]

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – more amazing interactives

Great work at the BBC

Click here to see the wonderful animated infographics that show everything you need to know

Really 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 millennium

I would love to see what Rafa Hohr is up to with the Sunday Times, but a subscription wall stands between my curiosity and no doubt bloody good work...

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine: latest infographics from Sunday newspapers

The 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 the press.

Good luck Glenn

Second, Fleet Street's behemoth the Sunday Times takes perspective of the "journey to the surface". Its great. Rigorous and nicely rendered with very 'agreeable' illustrative details

Last, the Sunday Telegraph went 'balls-out' with information and attention to the details. It very much feels like a graphic you want to spent some time with. Even better with a pint on a lazy Sunday afternoon. This example also marks the return of Richard Burgess to the Telegraph group

It would be great to see examples from Spain, Latin America etc...

Please forward on

Globe and Mail goes green

Globe and Mail goes green

The Globe And Mail finally unveiled it's new redesign on Friday

Moving 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 paper

The new KBA Commander CT presses provide unparalleled colour and registration quality coupled with an extremely fast output. The Globe And Mail prints from six printing plants spread across Canada

Saturday's issue included a fantastic double truck graphic (pic3) by Ninian Carter who is returning to the UK, and Tonia Cowan, which explains the new printing processes and green initiatives the Globe is striving to implement

It is understood that Carter will continue to work for the Globe and Mail

Lifetime achievement award: Javier Errea

Lifetime achievement award: Javier Errea

Here is a transcript from the SND website

Javier 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, graphic and web design, and journalism consulting in general. His high impact, intelligent work can be seen in publications across Europe, South America and the Middle East. Smart, innovative solutions, with journalistic flair, his work reflects the core values of everything this organization sets out to promote.

And he has contributed deeply and consistently to SND for a decade. He organizes the Malofiej conference – the world’s premier information graphics event. He organizes the ñh event – which assembles great speakers and honors the best of news design in Spain and Portugal. He also produces a book for that every year. And… he is the president of SND/E. For years, he has organized trips to the annual conferences for groups of Spanish journalists.

This year, Javier was instrumental in helping organize the first ever SND events in Milan and Rome. The popular seminars brought in 200 people.

And somehow, in amongst all this, he teaches a class in visual journalism at the University of Navarra.

Now I’d like to say something about Javier from the perspective of an infographic enthusiast. Through the Malofiej Awards and conference, Javier has dramatically raised the standards for information graphics throughout the world. When he took over the awards 10 years ago, they were basically dead on their feet. The absence of an awards book for three years had led to a precipitous drop in enthusiasm for the whole affair. But Javier systematically fixed the problems. He brought his intelligence and his style into the event. The change was remarkable. A beautifully designed annual, a revived conference with new ideas. He saved Malofiej. It is that simple. All infographics people should thank him from their hearts. And, believe me, we do.

No one could do this without a real passion for explanation through images. When you talk to Javier. you know right away that here is a person who is completely committed to the craft. He will tell you that although we are in a difficult transitional period, we are also in an age of unprecedented information, and visual-storytelling has more potential than ever. It’s a message of optimism, And one we can all carry with us from Denver, and into 2011.

Creative and innovative, modest and unassuming, welcoming and supportive. A true friend to SND, and an inspiration to us all.

For all these reasons, we honor Javier Errea with the SND’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ladies and gentlemen, Javier Errea!

Truly, truly well deserved. A friend and colleague. Lets raise a glass

Cloned cow chaos

Cloned cow chaos born of supreme champion cow from United States

From a prize winning cow in Wisconsin to Nairn near Innverness in Scotland

In today's Daily Telegraph, Gordon Rayner provides great insight into the scandal

Reconstruction (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, called Vandyk-K Integrity Paradise

The clone called Vandyk-K Integrity Paradise 2 was born in 2003

To recoup his outlay, Rueth set about inseminating the clone with seamen from a prize bull, Raging Crest Dundee, and selling the frozen embryo to three farms in the UK, which in turn implanted them into surrogates

Of those born from the surrogates, three were bulls, which in turn sired 97 calves

These bulls have since been killed, and two have entered the UK food chain, which is illegal. Food derived from cloned animals or their offspring cannot be sold in EU countries without a license, which are authorised by the Food Standards Agency (FSA)

As yet, no licenses have been requested

Thanks to Conrad Quilty-Harper

Telegraph Media Group: Infographics vacancy

Daily and Sunday Telegraph: Infographics vacancy

Senior Graphics position
Telegraph Media Group
London

Job Description
Telegraph 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 empire

You will work closely with Editors, reporters and Design Directors to help them decide on suitable subjects for news coverage, and should be aware of news stories developing around the world. You will be responsible for creating, editing and producing ground-breaking graphics of the highest quality, in a news orientated environment

This position is crucial in our news, business and sporting coverage. You will need to be an experienced graphic artist, have a broad understanding of illustration and typography, have the talent to understand complex events and develop ideas with succinct visual explanations through hand drawn and conventional computer rendering. You should be able to develop creativity, professionalism and innovation within the team and ensure your continuous personal development

5-10 years experience or equivalent, and spoken English is required

All applications by July 30

To apply please email resume and five examples of information graphics in pdf format to:

Michael Agar
Head of Graphics TMG
michael.agar@telegraph.co.uk

World Cup innovation

World Cup infographic innovation

In 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 Germany

But here's the beef...

The total supplement and each infographic are in Arabic and English

Is this a first in the world of visual reporting?

And infographics that have driven syndication (cash paid to your publisher) throughout the Arabian nations

Chumpitaz says:

This project was challenging because is the first time that, an Arabic newspaper recognizes that in Dubai the big population of expat like football, for this reason I suggested to make this supplement in two languages. After the approval my surprise was the reaction of the sport media in GCC, newspapers like Al Shabeeba in Oman, Al Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Al Sharaq in Qatar, and others in the rest of GCC countries took the decision acquire and print the supplement in their own countries. This was really good news!

Total football, total infographic caviar

Battle of Britain [2]

Battle of Britain – 70 years on

The battle in graphic form, in last weekend's Sunday Telegraph's Battle of Britain eight page supplement, which I hope to post this week

So rare these days to work on projects, time to think, time to develop

Over a week or two, Stefan Bayley and Ciaran Hughes played a blinder with visualising the content, and Fiona Mattias as always, steered the supplement, meticulously

My favorite part?

The daily number of aircraft lost from July 10 to the end of September

This is a lot of aircraft

And in the sky, over the southern coasts of England and initially across the deep channel

Can you imagine witnessing a dog-fight in clear summer skies?

I was walking the dogs this morning, and a Messerschmitt Me 109e idled above the Chiltern Valley, where I live

Great engines roaring

Imagine multiplying this by at least 100, and imagine the sounds of break-neck speed Me 109e and the British Spitfire – aircraft and each pilot with two aims – to kill and to survive

Is it impossible to "imagine you are there" with infographics? Whether we produce a more data/information driven, with illustration, or more decorative work with the added bonus of a annotated map – can our reader/viewer imagine themselves in the picture?

Maybe as children they can, adults maybe not

But the power off illustration goes along way in evoking these emotions

Although the infographic industry has grown and developed great analysts, visual reporters and chart divas, let us not forget the power of illustration

We contacted well known manufacturer of air-fix kits, and fortunately managed to manipulate a great image, to edit and show what we thought would benefit the page

Does it matter from where the visuals come?

No!

Use what you can find

Make phone calls, and send emails

Show the story

Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain – 70 years on

Yes - 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" supplement

Inside it told the story of the summer of 1940; The Spitfire – the envy of the enemy and historical by authors James Holland and Brian Milton

There was also a full-page broadsheet infographic, part of which is picture above

I will hope to upload these later today, with spreads also

World Cup Goals

World Cup Goals – but don't make the news

The goal infographic should have made ALL the print editions of this Sunday's Telegraph

Steven Gerrard's 4th minute goal would have given us plenty of time to produce the goods for the first edition

Fine.

Stefan Bayley and Ciaran Hughes rolled up their sleeves edited the text and imagery. Celebration pics and the glorious annotated England goal ready to rock

And then butter fingers buggers it up. The news changed

Disaster

No celebrations

The infographic did not make it through all editions, only first

Behind the paywall

Behind the paywall: interactives from the Sunday Times

And here we go

Remember 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 Times

Rafa Hohr, with John Smith's talented bunch have created this entertaining infographic which shows how engineers have been battling to stem the flow of oil which has been polluting the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April

Its simple yet informative and visually pleasing: the oil leak moves through the water, and bubbles rise from robot subs

Its great, and with the online background of Hohr, the Sunday Times will be producing interactive infographics previously seen on websites for El Pais and El Mundo in Madrid and Paddy Allen at the Guardian

Here is another example from Rafa

PS You may need to register, this of course will incur no cost during the trial period

WC2010: Will the US turn up?

WC2010: Will the US turn up?

OK

We all make mistakes, annoyingly

But 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...

WOW

Some commentators are offering the WGN graphics department the benefit of their doubt:

... something makes me think that the mistake was based in a lack of knowledge of geography rather than a simple confusion between ‘South Africa and South America.’ The question to ask is, how many other media outlets will make similar mistakes during the coverage this summer? I would bet that they just default to showing the entire continent of Africa to be safe

Caviar gráfico en gran vía [2]

Powerful words from Juantxo Cruz

He is a man that cares about his art, his profession, his newspaper but most importantly his readers

He 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 Department (M2) supplement in late February. First idea was to arrange a graphic on four or five newspaper pages, no more. That's enough

We needed a lot of help, so we hired beautiful Cristina Rodrigo, a great researcher, to find out all information about the historic street

A lot of Editors don't understand why an Infographic Department needs a researcher. But they need them, and not only one

During the process, we had to be doing the daily graphics too

I remembered the day terrorist band ETA killed a French Policeman in France

The First ETA Killing in our neighbourhood country. Would you imagine it?

Main editor wanted a big firing graphic, and all the team was working on the Gran Via project. Stop! let´s go to the breaking news, the real work for any person who decides to work on a paper

In the middle of March, Advertisement Department saw first [sketches] and got crazy: ‘We love that, we want a big poster’

Translating: That´s a good stuff for ads

Time was running [out as] we have to finish it by 4 April. So, we ran a lot (every building took 3 hours of work, and there are 80 buildings in the Gran Vía)

That's our bet. Functional Design, visualisation tendencies, flow statistics, cool Java scripts commands and all this stuff is great, but people on the street [do not] understand them

That poster is a classic. And Old style visual guide. For readers. For ‘madrileños’

Saving St Pete

Saving St Petersburg

St Petersburg is under threat from the sea and its new flood barrier should protect it for centuries

I don't know whether it compares with the Venetian example, but would be interesting to know otherwise

Sitting above the 6.5 meter high embankment will be a six lane motorway running from Bronka in the south, to Gorskaya in the north

But a great infographic reference, and editorial in New Civil Engineer magazine late last year, with the a major St Petersburg flood barrier package

Paul Weston produced the incredibly detailed infographics

He also produced the good at the Telegraph last year when he worked on the Moctezuma II showcase

Please find more of his work on his site

History of the House of Commons

History of the House of Commons

This House of Commons timeline shows the political make-up of Parliament from 1885

The interactive by David Kinross for the Telegraph's General Election coverage is a fantastic history lesson and archive for researchers, teachers and students

Enjoy this interactive caviar

Grey London adds colour to BA deal

Grey London adds colour to BA deal

Slightly behind with the news, apologies, but I collected these graphics last week

It 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 story

But apart from the two loss making businesses holding each other up, like two drunks trying to find their way home, the use of graphics by the UK press and that of the Spanish, could have not been more different

None are necessarily better or worse pound for pound, content for content, but the offerings by the Guardian and from the Daily Telegraph show that colourful and interesting financial infographics is good business

On one hand we have the basic chart, and in the other multimedia data visualisation

And here, in print, we can see the benefits of both disciplines in very different journalistic strategies

Business is good!