I’m very proud to have helped design David Cohn’s Knight News Challenge-award-winning crowd-funded journalism site. Spot.Us provides a platform for ordinary citizens to commission stories from freelance journalists, giving (1) the public a say in what stories get written, and (2) creating a new revenue stream for journalists who’re confronting budget cuts and layoffs in [...]
This morning I woke up for the second time in a country with a President Elect Barack Obama. It’s starting to feel real. My endorphin and dopamine receptors are completely burned out, but at least I’m no longer spontaneously breaking out into tears, so let’s take a look around. There’ve been a lot [...]
Notes from the 24th installment in AIGA’s Fresh Dialog lecture series, In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed.
THE VISUAL ETHICS REQUIRED IN INFORMATION GRAPHICS INCREASE THE DESIGNER’S BURDEN FROM FAITHFUL EXECUTOR TO EDITORIAL ARBITER.
How do design choices affect the integrity of the data being portrayed? Can information graphics and the designers who create them ever claim pure objectivity? [...]
This came through my spam filter and I think its just gorgeous. Something about the traditional hyperlinks and the triple-pipes really does it for me.
(View at 100% size for the full effect).
On the R train (en route to Matchupcamp) a man across the way was sketching with a brush-tip marker. Last week I’d been chastised by One Leg Chuck for filming his performance in the Bedford L station: “These are my songs, man! It’s rude to just film someone without asking!”
“What is Web Design and Where’s Its Canon?” seems to be the meta-meme of the moment: Bokardo replies to Vit, and Zeldman checks in too. There may be a ways to go until a positive definition comes about (Zeldman attempts it, and he’s halfway there, but something feels like its missing), but its encouraging to [...]
