The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
I love it when I come across two examples of a point I want to make. That adds more weight to said point, right? I started yesterday off enjoying BBC History’s series of video explainers about WW1. Lovely, and informative,…
Lessons from visual journalism
"Telling the story with the picture you create." via @lulupinney #visualDEN pic.twitter.com/rUFoaedUJN — James Lethem (@Sycren) June 5, 2014 Many people in industries beyond journalism are having to communicate visually in their work, or to put it another way tell…
Core values
In a world of colourful, interactive, big data it can be easy to forget that straightforward infographics still have their part to play, adding breadth and depth to news stories as the BBC correctly describe it. Here are two good…
The Data Journalism Handbook
It’s been an absolute pleasure preparing a poster about the Data Journalism Handbook, a free, open source reference book which shows how journalists can use data to improve the news. While the book’s being launched end-April at the International Journalism…
A benchmark
This combines the best of all the best things that are happening in the industry at the moment. It’s human, interactive, tells a story, uses motion graphics, has something to share at the end of it. Of course it also…
Wow v ah-ha
This title captures so perfectly a current theme in the ever more data driven infographic-land that I haven’t changed it. It’s lifted from a recent blog post from Juice Analytics that caught my eye a couple of weeks back. Whether…
China
Who hasn’t done a graphic – or ten – on China in some capacity or other? There are masses out there. China is exactly where I’m off to imminently (and Hong Kong) and I’m wondering and hoping I’ll see as…