General Election leaders' TV debate

General Election leaders' TV debate

Its 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 tonight

The Telegraph’s verdict

Benedict Brogan says Cameron stayed calm but Clegg got the cream

Janet Daley believes there was no clear winner

And the Telegraph explains that Clegg used the first TV debate to best effect

I agree: Round 1 to the Lib Dems

The Polls
Telegraph: Clegg: 40 per cent, Brown: 16 per cent, Cameron: 44 per cent
Sky: Clegg: 37 per cent, Brown: 32 per cent, Cameron: 31 per cent
ITV: Clegg: 43 per cent, Brown: 20 per cent, Cameron: 26 per cent

All other press is running with the same theme, Guardian, Independent and the Times

Usual press/party bias applies, as expected

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!

More Infographic caviar

More Infographic caviar from the Observer

Pete Guest is working his mojo

Very easy to understand information, that is visual

And guess where the gutter is, and a good spot

I've seen infographics go over the gutter and text is lost

Disaster!

Nice work, clean messages from clean design

Boner!

Pixelatia

Total pixelatia

Watch this short movie by Patrick Jean on Dailymotion

Incredible

8-bit creature invasion on New York

Read more here on Wired web site

Written and directed by PJ
Director of Photography is Matias Boucard

Thanks to Tim Dog

Oxford | Cambridge Boat race

Oxford | Cambridge Boat race special in the Daily Telegraph

This special appeared last Saturday for the university boat race, which was won by Cambridge

Designed by Wayne Caba, and the boat illustration by Mark Oliver, it was a visual jolly

Good fun which also informs

Perfecto!

Top Notch graphics

Top Notch Ninfographics from Ninian Carter's new site

Former Graphics Editor at the Observer, Reuters, Sydney Morning Herald and now at the Globe and Mail in Toronto

His award winning portfolio is vast well worth flicking through

Have a look at his news site

www.ninian.net

Election erections

Elections erections: its go go time

All the nationals gave it large on Tuesday, massive editorials, mega party-leader pics and huge amounts of infographics

The Times advertised an election map "Free inside" on their masthead

We 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 Conservatives

A huge amount most likely not enough to win an outright majority

Along with swingometers' and general election good election coverage, the Telegraph also interactively helps you how to vote

In the Independent, they produced the last elections results in today's new boundary format

Why?

We are surely used to the Independent producing much more interesting editorial, although one can imagine that most commissioning editors think that the election map of the UK is key to any election...

IT IS NOT

It is a visual lie

For the 2005 election result, while working for the Observer, Cath Levett, Ciaran Hghes and I produced an proportionate example of how the electorate voted (mainly concentrated urban areas in red) and what the constitutional (mainly blue for rural reasons) map compared

The result being a very blue constituency map of the UK, but the majority of votes going to the red of Labour

Please - for any visual reporting for this election, I urge many to look at current graphics from the Guardian, most certainly on Tuesday

It should serve many swell over the next few weeks

Not news based, but excellent and well planned election coverage

The pick of the best being Mark McCormick's online extraveganza

Infographic Caviar indeedy