Posts tagged ‘Information Graphics’
La metodología de Goertzen para el diseño de infografías
Monday, September 28th, 2009
By María de los Ángeles Briones, Universidad Católica de Chile/SND Al enfrentarse a la creación de una infografía, el equipo que estará detrás de ella debe organizar una gran cantidad de información, encausarla por un foco correcto y tangibilizarla sobre un soporte. Jeff Goertzen —quien dirige el departamento de infografía de The Denver Post, teniendo
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Desafíos y sorpresas lejos de casa
Monday, September 28th, 2009
By Militza Moya, Universidad Diego Portales/SND Al presentar a Luis Chumpitaz sólo es suficiente decir que cambió la infografía de Dubai. Uno de los grandes méritos de Chumpitaz es realizar sus infografías en árabe e inglés. Este expositor define como necesario aprovechar el crecimiento emergente de Dubai y los recursos económicos de esta gran ciudad
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What are the rules of clean and simple graphics?
Friday, September 25th, 2009
By Kathleen Sullivan, Gannett/SND The question: How to do graphics that are clean and simple – what are the rules? Good graphics don’t distract, confuse or mislead the reader. The goal is to inform as quickly and best as possible. An example: Cairo referenced the famous “ghost map” by John Stow, which plotted cases of
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‘If all the information is out there, we have to find ways to show it to people’
Friday, September 25th, 2009
By Sahar Vahidi, Syracuse University/SND John Grimwade: “I’m a big baseball fan, which is weird because I’m British…” Oh, and: “New Yorkers feel the the center of the universe revolves around them.” And: “If all the information is out there, we have find ways to show it to people, to make ourselves relevant.” Grimwade opened
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China graphics workshop helps break new ground
Monday, March 30th, 2009
A report from the SND Infographics Design/Asian Boot Camp that was held last weekend (March 26-28, 2009) in Chongqing, China They gathered us together inside a bomb shelter at an abandoned warehouse in Chongqing, China. What was once built as a place of refuge during the Cold-War era, now served as part of an art
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Dutch graphics summit draws a large audience
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
The first Dutch infographics summit, organized by Frederik Ruys, was a tremendous inaugural effort, drawing more than 200 graphics specialists from major newspapers, magazines, television networks and online publications. The summit, on March 21, happened just one week after the successful annual Malofiej Infographics World Summit in Pamplona. The interest in Europe for visual storytelling
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The New York Times wins top prize at Malofiej 16
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Post your pictures: SND Update friend Professor Michael Stoll from Augsburg University of Applied Sciences has set up a Flickr group for Malofiej 16. Check it out and post often. Just tag your pix Malofiej 16 and they should show up. FRIDAY NIGHT REPORT: THE AWARDS For the second consecutive year, a work made for
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In beautiful balance: Visuals and information
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Megan Jaegerman produced some of the best news graphics ever while working at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998. Her work is smart, finely detailed, elegant, witty, inventive, informative. A fierce researcher and reporter, she writes gracefully and precisely. Megan has the soul of a news reporter, who happens to use graphs, tables,
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Keeping an eye out for cool infographics
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
There’s no doubt that the media industry is in a deep and profound period of change. Many of those effects are discussed in these pages. While the disruption in our corner of the world can’t be downplayed, it is only part of a larger technological and cultural shift. The bottom line: Technological advances are changing
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The interactivity gap: Embrace the Web
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
As news organizations strive to produce ever more multimedia while expending increasingly less effort, the immersive interactive graphic has become somewhat of an endangered species, crowded out by waves of audio slide shows and video clips. The reasons are pretty simple. It takes time and at least some programming talent to produce a truly interactive
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