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Creative strategies: Simplify

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Added by Tim Frank on March 14, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

A visual journalist's survival guide: Finding time for design

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Added by Tim Frank on February 21, 2010 at 11:44pm — No Comments

A visual journalist's survival guide: Why newspapers need you

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Added by Tim Frank on February 14, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Sun Sentinel Super Bowl strategy

South Florida hosted the Super Bowl this year and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank our team for all their great work over the last weeks. Here's a look at the strategy.

Collaboration:
It's been a collaborative effort involving much of the newsroom, online and TV. We tried to take advantage of early planning efforts to have a cohesive visual approach to all SB content that seamlessly integrates photography, writing, graphics… Continue

Added by Sun Sentinel staff on February 8, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

A visual journalist's survival guide: Type as art

This page by Kristin Lenz treats type as art in the most literal sense, with the letter

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Added by Tim Frank on February 7, 2010 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

A visual journalist's survival guide: No art, no problem

So you have an important story with no art and no illustration budget. Here are a few ideas that could help you out. Type as illustration: Using type as your art can be as straight forward as turning up your storytelling really loud. Here's an example by Margit Toovere.

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Added by Tim Frank on January 31, 2010 at 1:57pm — No Comments

www.hayalperdesi.net

E-journals. Cinema Magazine. Waiting for your comments. www.hayalperdesi.net Continue

Added by Erol Polat on January 29, 2010 at 6:05am — No Comments

A visual journalist's survival guide: Art direction 101

If your story is about something tangible and specific, shoot it. If the story is about concept or abstract idea, illustrate it. How many of your publications would illustrate a story on rising airfare by sending a photographer to the airport? My paper had a strong tradition of documentary photography, so… Continue

Added by Tim Frank on January 24, 2010 at 10:38am — No Comments

India's first International NewspaperDesign Competition

Send your best entries and be the part of India's First International Newspaper Design Competition conducted by www.newspaperdesign.ning.com. Well-Known Visual Journalist Charles Apple will Head the Jury.He will be assisted by an International Jury. categories 1.Best Front Page 2.Best Feature Page 3.Best Sports Page 4. Best Center Spread 5.Best infographics THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE Extended deadline is Jan 22, 2010.Entries must be send in the pdf… Continue

Added by tksajeev on January 19, 2010 at 8:25am — No Comments

A Visual Journalist's Survival Guide: Are we having fun yet?

This page, brilliantly illustrated by Andrea Levy of the Plain Dealer, is a great example of the value of being able to sell your ideas. How many of your papers would run a page like this?

The best argument to do so is that having fun with your work is one of the best ways to engage readers. And to use a litt… Continue

Added by Tim Frank on January 17, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

A visual journalist's survival guide: Expand the comfort bubble

Sometimes, truly innovative creative work really can scare the hell out of editors. Maybe I exaggerate, but it does require some courage to take risks – to do anything non-standard. I've been lucky to work with some editors who have had have the courage and the trust to allow us to take a chance on some new ideas. It doesn't happen overnight, though. It comes from building trust with your editors and especially from expanding the comfort bubble. How many of you have done work that was killed b… Continue

Added by Tim Frank on January 10, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

A visual journalist's survival guide: Talk about readership

In this business it's not always about how good you are but how good you are at selling your ideas. It doesn't do much good to do amazing work if you can't get it published. It's really about the language we use when selling our ideas. If we want to be credible leaders in the newsroom, we need to talk about t… Continue

Added by Tim Frank on January 6, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

A visual journalist's survival guide: If you're not scaring your boss, you're not trying hard enough

Yes, if you're not scaring your boss, you're probably not trying hard enough. My staff has probably heard me use that expression too many times. It's really just about doing innovative work, but even more so about getting us out of our comfort zone. Let's face it. We can't afford to be comfortable right now. Newspapers are under a state of siege and visual journalists are all too often the victims. Who wants to be a victim when there's still a chance to play offense? When newspapers are forced… Continue

Added by Tim Frank on January 2, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

SNDS Magazine 4/2009 is out

This year's last issue of SNDS Magazine is out – in print and online. If you're not a member of SNDS or a subscriber to the magazine, you may read it online as an e-paper, or download it as a pdf. Find it in the SNDS Magazine section on snds.org – and read about: Scandinavians in Buenos Aires; Speakers i… Continue

Added by Lars Pryds on December 11, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

SNDS: Mobile media included in the competition

Last year SNDS upgraded the online news design competition. This year SNDS takes a step further into the online media business by… Continue

Added by Lars Pryds on December 1, 2009 at 7:10pm — 1 Comment

Diagramas Dantescos

Para el mes de noviembre la revista QUO publicará las infografías “reinterpretadas” del Infierno, purga… Continue

Added by José Luis Barros Chaparro on October 26, 2009 at 5:20pm — No Comments

La Niña, la carabela cosentida de Colón

Un tema que disfrutamos mucho, siempre la historia da para entretenernos. Al igual que muchos de los temas desarrollados por BIG ESTUDIO, la producción fue desde la investigación hasta la ilustración, desafortunadamente el fondo cambio de último momento y se publicó sobre una fotografía de un mar cost… Continue

Added by José Luis Barros Chaparro on October 26, 2009 at 5:10pm — No Comments

Infografía “Comercial”

Recientemente BIG ESTUDIO ha incursionado en la publicidad informativa, haciendo infografía con el fin de mostrar los atributos de un producto, éste caso fue para la empresa ArcelorMittal, una de las principales acereras a nivel mundial, con presencia en México. Se publicó en dos revistas del… Continue

Added by José Luis Barros Chaparro on October 26, 2009 at 5:01pm — No Comments

Last day o' the week

Got to crank out a coupel of features pages, a wire section and page one, then off until Monday. James Lambert is design editor at a Vermont newspaper . He occasionally blogs about things here and at his portfolio Web site. Continue

Added by James Lambert on October 1, 2009 at 1:49pm — No Comments