Bringing words to life
Happy New Year! Being a cyclist I always enjoy the occasions that I do travel on the tube to catch up on the latest posters and artwork on display all around. Fed up of getting a daily drenching most days…
Visual chapters
Look at the six thumbnail sketches down the left hand side: I really like the use of visuals here to draw attention to where the stories are. They serve to guide the reader through an otherwise complicated and confusing landscape.
All about Bloomberg Business Week
If I had a pound for every time someone’s recommended Bloomberg Business Week recently I’d be £5 better off. Which I could have put towards buying the latest issue of Eye in which Simon Esterson interviews BBW’s creative director Richard…
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…
Numbers narrative
Whether or not you agree with their methodology I think the Economist’s Shoe-throwers’ index is a good example of using video to tell a numbers-based story. With a tight script, well timed animations and clear explanations of what they’ve done…
Why choose to use an infographic?
The range of speakers at the ‘Design of Understanding’ and the range of work they create put me in mind of a theme I have been mulling over of late, that is the motivation behind creating any graphic. And looking…
The benefits of storytelling
The production values of the two videos below aren’t great but they both use the tool of storytelling to help explain the big numbers we keep hearing in the news. And the advantages are that they make the subject matter…