Graphic Design – Page 8 – Visual Journalism

March 3, 2008

Strange Crops

I have been reading newspapers for 30 years now, on and off. I started with the comics, then moved to news and features. And I read the sports pages, but I admit to not being a huge sports fan. I’ve worked for small news papers and mid-sized newspapers. I’ve shot photos, edited photos and done some page layout. Wrote a...

Graphic Design

February 1, 2008

WooWho!! The Red & Black Goes Multimedia in a Big Way

They have dabbled, they have played. They have experimented. Now, they’ve figured out some stuff … In Wednesday’s edition, they broke a story about a faculty member with a history of sexual harassment charges having been filed against him, dating back almost 20 years. They also created an infographic timeline that ran on page one. Online they posted the documents...

Audio/Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

January 14, 2008

Guest Speaker Jim Stovall – Thursday, Jan. 24, 11 a.m.

Professor Jim Stovall will describe the Tennessee Journalist, the student news web site he created at the University of Tennessee. Prof. Stovall was the brainchild behind Dateline Alabama and runs JProf.com, as well. He’ll be here to talk with us about student news web sites and is a jack-of-all-codes, so to speak, and can help us think about what we’re...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

November 5, 2007

Motion Graphics Talk – Wednesday Night

From David Hazinski in Broadcast, something to think about going to. Meaning, GO!! Motion graphics workshop Wednesday night in the photo lab, room 130. Unless we get too many people, then we’ll probably move to the newsroom. My classes had asked for ‘more’ on motion graphics, so I set this up… then invited Mark Wright. Mark has been the chief...

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

November 1, 2007

Geek Alert – Eye-Fi

So you think downloading your cards takes too much time? Wish you could “live post” images to the web as you shoot them? Without having to spend hundreds of dollars on wireless bits from Canon or Nikon? Check out the EyeFi – a SD card that acts as a wireless transmitter, moving images from your camera to computer to the...

Graphic Design/Tech Talk

October 4, 2007

Ten percent of page views at NYTimes.com are of …

… slideshows. So says Vivian Schiller, general manager of NYTimes.com, in a piece on MarketWatch. (Thanks for the lead goes to Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess.)

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia

September 26, 2007

Burning Man 2007

The Las Vegas Sun has videos – and Flickr photo feed – up from this year’s Burning Man festival. This goes well beyond what a “normal” broadcast station would do on this type of story – it has the traditional journalistic narrator, as well as interviews, but adds text and stop-motion style photography to the package. It’s smooth, sophisticated –...

Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

September 18, 2007

Type Show

Didn’t see anything about this until today … The Broad Street Gallery in Athens has a show up called “Snap to Grid,” on Brett MacFadden’s experimental typography. Show runs through Sept. 28, I’m going to wander over there soon …

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design

September 10, 2007

iDMAa Conference in Philly

Dr. Scott Schamp writes about it better than I can … so go read his 10 reasons why you should go. I may.

Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

August 30, 2007

Color Tests

We should talk about color theory in class a lot more than we do, I keep trying to get it in there and it just keeps slipping by. So in its place, here’s a small online game for looking at color gradations. See how you do.

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Thoughts & Theory

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