Author Archives: Dave

Freelance Graphic and Web designer from Manchester, UK.

How big is the USA?

The first draft of this visualisation was created in about 8 hours before the deadline for USA by Designers expired, on the day before I had to move out of my house and before I’d started any packing! So, to say I was rushed, stressed, and clock watching is a HUGE understatement.
What’s shown below is the […]

Post Details Posted March 5, 2010 at 11:01 pm | Filed under DTN Lab, Design | Tagged as , , , , , , , | 0 Comments

Buzz Tracker

This week I’ve been working on a sweet new data visualisation that aggregates opinion from twitter for a specfic event or set of topics. All week it’s been evolving, growing in ability and scope and I think it’s about time it deserved a little mention on DTN.
I’m not going into too much detail right now […]

Post Details Posted February 19, 2010 at 4:37 am | Filed under DTN Lab, Design, Programming | 1 Comment

Plans

So lately I’ve been thinking about just what I want Designing The News to be and I had a Jerry Maguire moment - an epiphany. There are alot of data visualisation blogs out there that consistently post great examples of data visualisation, and for me putting together last weeks post wasn’t fun. If felt like […]

Post Details Posted January 23, 2010 at 8:29 pm | Filed under update | Tagged as , , , | 1 Comment

Educational food and drink infographics

In the past couple of weeks I’ve been noticing an increase in infographics about food and drink, whether these are brand new productions or just old content being resurfaced I thought I’d start collecting them as and when they cropped up.
What follows are 20 examples of food and drink infographics, ranging from high-end commissions for […]

Post Details Posted January 16, 2010 at 5:40 pm | Filed under Food & Drink, infographics | Tagged as , , , , , | 16 Comments

Resolution

Out of the three resolutions I made this new year this is the only one I’ve not broken yet. Sad but true. 8 days in I’ve already had a beer and cut my hair. Re-launching, writing, and designing for this site is the only one that remains, and with the constant challenge of Anton’s Project52 […]

Post Details Posted January 8, 2010 at 3:16 am | Filed under Site News | 0 Comments

SXSW Panel – Please vote for the DTN talk

It’s been over a year last month since I posted anything on this site - too long by any stretch. I know most of you reading this in feed readers will be pretty surprised (probably having forgotten all about it), but I have a favour to ask.
Like me, those of you visiting this site are […]

Post Details Posted August 20, 2009 at 10:49 pm | Filed under Site News | 1 Comment