Category Archives: Research

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

Why design the news?

As part of a presentation I have to do in a couple of days, I’ve started to outline why I’ve chosen to design the news for my final years project. I’ve used the NABC approach to split my thoughts into segments.
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Alot of the news we receive is mostly through newspapers, and TV reports. This requires that […]

Post Details Posted December 17, 2007 at 12:31 pm By Dave | 3 Comments

Why represent the news as pictograms and infographics?

The aim of the news is to report on the happenings of a certain subject with as much detail as possible, to be objective and not saturated with statistics, whilst keeping it interesting and readable.
Some news is interesting enough to read, and then you want to know more about it. With other news you can look […]

Post Details Posted December 13, 2007 at 11:31 pm By Dave | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments

Infographics and Pictograms: A brief history and a little inspiration

Infographics and pictograms are used worldwide, and are seen by almost everyone in a commercial or public enviroment. Infographics are instructive images, and are aimed at making something complicated seem easier to understand by graphical illustrations. Whereas pictograms are basically representative images we use to replace words or visualise actions, and are often seen either […]

Post Details Posted December 6, 2007 at 11:48 pm By Dave | Also posted in Design | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments