Category: Graphic Design

April 5, 2018

Setting Rates for Graphic Design

It’s not just photographers that struggle with setting a rate, take a look at this infographic for graphic designers. Does that fit for photographers? I don’t think so. And I’m not sure it fits for designers, either – it accounts for none of their costs and assumes every penny billed goes to salary and that isn’t the case. Granted, the...

Categories Business & Industry/Graphic Design

February 22, 2017

160 Years of The New York Times Front Pages

This is just awesome: Every front page of The New York Times – watch the way it changes over time put together by Josh Begley. (Thanks to DL Cade at PetaPixel for the link.)

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 2, 2015

Eye Tracking Your Obsession

Interesting video made by Canon to promote one of their printers … Not without some criticism, as well. I have a touch of experience with eye tracking (mostly from hanging around very smart people who do it like Sara Quinn and my college Bart Wojdynski), so I think this stuff is really cool. My dream is to take entries from...

Categories Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 19, 2015

Stock Photo Fail: Political Tweet Edition

Stock photography is kind of the gift that keeps on giving. In the latest edition, the Donald Trump campaign tweeted out a patriotic image of the American flag with Mr. Trump, $100 bills, the White House and soldiers fading through it. The problem: the soldiers are World War II Nazi historical re-enactors. The Trump campaign has stated that an intern...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 6, 2015

Mountain Workshops Application Open

Applications for the 2015 Mountain Workshops (October 20-24 in Frankfort, Kentucky) are now being accepted. In addition to the traditional photojournalism track, there are also opportunities to learn about picture editing, video storytelling, time-lapse photography and data visualization.

Categories Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 13, 2014

What Comes After School

Poking around the web today I found this two year old post by Steve Giralt about being in business and, since I’m talking about business with my kids these days, it seems really relevant.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Photojournalism

July 6, 2014

The Letters of Dublin

Neat video on the sign painters of Dublin … Gentlemen of Letters – A Dublin Sign Painting Film from Colin Brady on Vimeo. (Thanks to Khoi Vinh for the link.)

Categories Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism/Tech Talk

June 9, 2014

Compact Communication

A little off topic, but Roy Peter Clark has a piece up on what we can learn from 1954 Don Zimmmer’s baseball card. Even with all this information – words and numbers – there is room for not just one but two captioned illustrations, a lovely blend of language and visuals. Under the logo “Inside Baseball,” we learn that “Don...

Categories Craft/Graphic Design/Photojournalism

March 4, 2014

Why I’ll Never be an Artist

Yep. Not going to happen.

Categories Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 4, 2014

For the Educators in the Audience

Need to spend off a little leftover FY14 travel funding? Here’s how to do it – Poynter’s Teachapalooza is one of the best journalism educator conferences around. Three (or five) days of über nerdy, totally geeked out learning about how to better teach journalism at the university level. Disclosure: I’m on the faculty, but I paid my way for the...

Categories Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video