Content meant to be read on every screen
Roger Black is a designer who likes to read. Now with partner Filipe Fortes, a computer scientist and user-experience expert, he’s created a platform for narrative in the digital diaspora.
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Old school ads seek a social media guru
A new campaign for a nonprofit health organization reveals the limits of traditional advertising - and the tantalizing lure of online networks. If you're a social media guru, Selfchec needs your help.
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Now playing: The Throwdown Video
Charlton Heston channels Moses. Steve Jobs assumes a higher authority. Crazy guys throw down an iPad at batting practice. All this and...
Read MoreWeThink: Designers Can Save The World
Our new project, WeThink, is an effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing. It is...
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Download: Right Brain rules for design, business and life
One of the fundamental tasks of design and business is to stand between revolutions and life, to help people deal with change. That’s...
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How To: Choose the right colors for your web site
[We like to use, celebrate and design products that are both useful and beautiful. Here's the first in an occasional series of quick tips...
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The seven senses of the world’s best-designed newspapers
The Society of News Design has announced the World’s Best Designed Newspapers, an award I conceived as chair of SND’s design...
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Charles Blow blogs by the numbers
Our friend and former colleague Charles Blow has joined the blogging brethren with a discussion on all things statistical. A visual Op-Ed...
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“I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous”
Steering into the iceberg, the Troubled Tribune company rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic. The redesign of Trib’s Baltimore...
Read MoreRight-brainers rule. Dr. Design emerges from exile at SND.
As news industry conferences go, this is the good one. The right-brainers who attend SND’s annual designfest have managed to make...
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A preview of Poynter Online’s new design
The academy for journalists in St. Pete plans to unveil its redesign, nine months in the making, later this week. Cleaner, yet still busy,...
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Memo to ESPN: Take out the trash in baseball telecasts
To: ESPN broadcasters and producers: So I’m watching bonus coverage of the Yankees-Rangers game. There’s all this annoying stuff on...
Read MoreOrange County-on-the-Ganges
The Orange County Register confirmed it will outsource copy editing and page layout to an editorial services company based outside New...
Read MoreHow to do it
An isometric landscape, Web Trend Map 3 pins down nearly 300 of the most successful and influential websites plotted against the metaphor...
Read MoreNumber Three
The thing about innovation is that you know it when you see it. One version comes from Tribune Co., which has been exuberant about...
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