2 month ago
philgyford : Hong Kong's Most Disturbing CG Illustrations " WITMOT? - Hong Kong's 'Apple Daily' makes computer images for news stories when there are no photos. Hilarious, especially if you scroll down to Morgan Freeman. (via Ted Mills)
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6 month ago
nelson : Cancel the Examiner - how to prevent the daily litter from this fake newspaper being delivered for free
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Richard Rutter : Award-winning newspaper designs - some great infographics and design in here.
Khoi Vinh : Smashing Magazine: Sampling of Award-winning Newspaper Designs
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16 month ago
Richard Rutter : Le Monde Diplomatique redesigned by SpiekermannPartners - Grids. Lots of white space. Beautiful.
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17 month ago
jonhicks : I'm socially inept, but I joined Facebook anyway
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Meg Meish grabs the Sun's awesome headline from yesterday and pushes it all over the shop - A lovely fun post with a nice retro beginning of the blogosphere feel to it. Much missed casual observations with class...
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32 month ago
deusx : ConceptM, conceptontwikkeling & realisatie
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Newsdesigner talks about the work on the Observer redesign that launched on Sunday - I missed it, which is the most unfortunate thing. Matt Webb says it's a pretty solid piece of work. Looking forward to exploring it properly this coming weekend.
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34 month ago
kayodeok : Stop the Presses! How Pay-Per-Click Is Killing the Traditional Publishing Industry - Ad agencies and publications alike knew that many -- even most -- advertising dollars were simply wasted, but it wasn't in their interest to admit that, so they didn't ... Contrast this to pay-per-click, which is brutally honest, where every successful ad
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37 month ago
Rod Begbie : Doonesbury: returning to G2 - Grauniad dumps Doonesbury strip without warning as part of shrinkifying of paper. Hundreds of readers complain. 24 hours later, the features editor posts "mea culpa" in their blog comments, and says that it will return. Good for them. (FWIW, Steve Bel #
plasticbag : The Guardian's Editor's Weblog shows immediately the discussions and background behind the decision to un-drop Doonesbury - At the smallest level this really does seem to have been a way that the editorial team can talk outside the publication in a less formal voice than ever before. Interesting stuff...
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philgyford : Fullinsert_high.pdf - Preview of the new Guardian Berliner format. I'm probably more excited than I should be.
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38 month ago
deusx : IT Conversations: Rob Curley - IMA Keynote - "The Lawrence Journal-World has always gone beyond providing hardcopy text -- they've delivered everything from audio clips to whatever you can imagine."
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40 month ago
plasticbag : The Guardian is to change its size to a 'Berliner' format halfway between broadsheet and tabloid... - Clearing out the tabs brings this story about the Guardian's proposed change in size that I first heard about at a typography event last year...
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Evening Standard Headline Crisis - a photoset on Flickr - A project that explores the doom-and-gloom agenda of London's Evening Standard headline writers
plasticbag : Darren Shrubsole - relentless Link Machine - reveals the doom-and-gloom agenda of London's Evening Standard headline writers - He's produced a Flickr photoset of some of the best (read most alarmist) Evening Standard Headline's of 2005
Rod Begbie : Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2005 - a photoset on Flickr - Fear and Loathing on the streets of London. [via] #
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plasticbag : Old Observer article about Ikea and their satirisation of designers that I think misses the point... - The article seems to suggest that it's anti-designer, but I don't think it is. I think it's anti pompous designer, it's anti-artifice and I think it demonstrates enormous respect for the craft of design and the creation of simple, beautiful things...
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plasticbag : The Telegraph and Sun misrepresent fairly neutral or positive stats about the acceptance of gay people in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines - It just goes to show that you can use statistics to prove anything - even, er, even things that, you know, the statistics very definitely don't, er, prove... And, er, you know, if you're a right-wing national UK newspaper...
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