Category Archives: Research

Research into the project, and inspiration and indeas for design work.

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 By Dave | Tagged as , , , , , , , | 0 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 By Dave | Also posted in 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 By Dave | 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 By Dave | Tagged as , , , , , , | 0 Comments

Serial and Parallel relations

After just completing a static news visualisation, I realised the way I linked the stories and authors together was in a serial fashion. That is to say, I linked the stories along a path that progressed from one story to the next in order of the position they appeared in the paper, but they could […]

Post Details Posted February 12, 2008 at 2:04 am By Dave | Tagged as , , , , | 1 Comment

Infographics and pictograms, more research

Well I’m getting ready to disect a few pages of statistics and start creating a bunch of pictograms and infographics, and I did what’s probably going to be the last lot of research on the subject.

Destructive spending by liquisoft, via DeviantArt.
Our goal was to design a poster that informed the public of something. Our focus, for this […]

Post Details Posted December 18, 2007 at 7:29 am By Dave | Tagged as , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments