Monthly Archives: April 2008

Help. What don’t you understand?

OK so I’d really appreciate some input if you’ll indulge me. Not much, just a couple of lines.
I have a presentation in a couple of days about this project. I’m trying to put together some sort of list of frequently asked questions in order to give a better presentation of the work. I know what my […]

Post Details Posted April 21, 2008 at 3:48 pm By Dave | Filed under Research | Tagged as , , , | 11 Comments

The art of being concise, or not

I just thought I’d post this little update as I’m currently about half way through a 6000 word minimum illustrated report on the work I’m doing for university.
I think I’m a pretty concise person. When I write anything I usually try to get to the point pretty quickly, and don’t like to spin anything out […]

Post Details Posted April 18, 2008 at 6:26 am By Dave | Filed under Thoughts | Tagged as , | 5 Comments

One week of the Guardian: Saturday

Well the end is pretty frikkin’ nigh. This is the final news day of the series as The Guardian doesn’t issue on Sunday.
Todays visual plots all of the headlines in the Guardian on a grid, colour categorised and ordered as to their position in the paper. Relationships are formed for authors who appear more than […]

Post Details Posted April 11, 2008 at 1:30 pm By Dave | Filed under DTN Lab, Design | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

One week of The Guardian: Friday

Yet another ‘One Day of The Guardian’ visualisation is complete. Todays visual illustrates the sheer amount of words in the paper. I wanted to do something like this, something rather simple, as after doing some research on word counts in books I found out that I could pretty much read a book from cover to […]

Post Details Posted April 9, 2008 at 10:00 am By Dave | Filed under DTN Lab, Design | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

One week of The Guardian: Thursday

This one’s been a long time coming let me tell you! It’s been sat on my computer finished for almost two weeks now, and I feel really good it’s finally published, like a weight’s been lifted.
This visual was pretty much focused on the relationships created between headlines, authors, pages, and categories. I wanted to see how […]

Post Details Posted April 5, 2008 at 11:29 am By Dave | Filed under DTN Lab, Design | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , , , | 52 Comments