Author Archives: Dave

Freelance Graphic and Web designer from Manchester, UK.

Simplification: Hogarth’s Gin Lane

I’ve had this recording for a while now and I think it’s about time to get it posted. Back before Christmas The One Show had a feature on Gin, and in it was an explanation of ‘Gin Lane’, an engraving by William Hogarth, 1751. I’m not going into too much detail on why it was […]

Post Details Posted March 7, 2008 at 1:43 pm | Filed under Research | Tagged as , , , , , , , | 0 Comments

One week of The Guardian: Monday

UPDATE: This post has been updated on 05 April 2008. The original contents of this post can be found in this text file.
Well here’s version 2 of Monday’s edition. I like to think of this as 1.0, and the previous was just the beta. Software gets beta’d all the time, why can’t posters?
Anyways, I felt I ‘copped […]

Post Details Posted March 1, 2008 at 7:02 pm | Filed under DTN Lab, Design, Thoughts | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

DesigningTheNews.com + CSS Galleries = Traffic!

Ooooh well. Over the past couple of days there’s been a rather large surge of visitors to the site, thanks to the readers of some of the internets’ best web design and css galleries! Seen as though this site is part of a university project, and I’m hoping to get a good mark at the […]

Post Details Posted February 29, 2008 at 11:59 pm | Filed under Design, Site News | Tagged as , , , , , | 3 Comments

Newspapers, books, and rather large word counts

After collecting all the data for One Week Of The Guardian, I’ve been looking through the statistics. One thing that struck me was the amount of words in the news for all 6 days, Monday to Saturday. In one week, there were 182,001 words. That sounds alot to me, but I managed to read all […]

Post Details Posted February 29, 2008 at 12:06 pm | Filed under Research, Thoughts | Tagged as , , , , , | 0 Comments

One week of The Guardian: Statistics Collection

For an upcoming visual series on designing the news contained in the Guardian newspaper, I’ve been data mining through a weeks worth of the papers, Monday to Saturday (Sundays’ issue is the Observer so no Guardian then), and disecting all of the information. The information I took from the paper in order to create the […]

Post Details Posted February 28, 2008 at 4:15 am | Filed under Research | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

One week of The Guardian plan

Last week The Media Centre in Huddersfield held a four day workshop to help develop our projects further for the final year. During the workshops were four presentations by various people from the design industry; Steve Teruggi of Winkreative and Monocle, David Squire of Desq, Christine Osborne of Swamp at Brahm, and Clive Tonge of Lynchpin.
After […]

Post Details Posted February 23, 2008 at 11:52 pm | Filed under Research | Tagged as , , , , , , | 0 Comments