February 14th, 2012 | by Sara | brewing
Feb
14
I saw this hops chart via a Twitter link today and thought it could come in handy with the brewing … not to mention, it’s a pretty cool-looking graphic. Perhaps someone with more brewing space would want to hang it on his brew room wall.
March 24th, 2010 | by Sara | uncategorized
Mar
24
This write-on, wipe-off lovey frame is really way to sappy for me. But, Swissmiss posted it on her blog, and I thought it was a really cute idea for couples.
March 24th, 2010 | by Sara | uncategorized
Mar
24
For anyone who uses charts as part of their work (or school or play), this is a fun chart to figure out which type of chart you need to make. (Yes, charts galore.)
February 12th, 2010 | by Sara | uncategorized
Feb
12
I love this laptop sleeve that you can have made out of your T-shirt. It’s out of my price range, but it’s a fun idea.
January 25th, 2010 | by Sara | uncategorized
Jan
25
If you haven’t seen the sweet interactive graphic that the New York Times posted about Netflix rentals, you should check it out. Unfortunately, they had to narrow down their data, so they only posted 12 metropolitan areas. (D.C. is included, as is Chicago; but St. Louis isn’t.)
I spent a little time figuring it out before I realized how great it was. I think it’s neat how in the D.C. area you can see huge differences in the rental of certain movies (such as it’s rented much more in D.C. itself versus the suburbs, etc.)
Also, Will at Journerdism posted this link to a Society for News Design article by former Post-Dispatch intern Kevin Quealy explaining how some of the decisions for the graphic were made.
January 19th, 2010 | by Sara | uncategorized
Jan
19
I’ve been meaning to post this for most of the past week, but I suppose it’s better late than never.
A newspaper design blog I follow posted a number of newspaper front pages from Friday (a few days after the Haiti earthquake). The focus was on what photos of bodies were used and how they were played — and the ethics of the decisions to use them in that way.
On the same day, a Missouri School of Journalism listserv I’m on delved into a similar discussion as to whether the New York Times should have run the photo it did. (You can see the page and photo the discussion was about in the link above.)
These types of discussions about whether to use photos of bloody or dead bodies are common among journalists, and most (if not all) papers have them when deciding which photos to publish during tragedies such as the recent earthquake. In simple terms, it’s balancing the paper’s responsibility to show the extent of the situation and not sugarcoat it with the readers’ (and paper’s) desire to not see overly sensational, bloody and disturbing images. In other words, does the photo tell the story perfectly, or is the paper only using the photo in hopes of getting a shocking reaction?
To see front pages of newspapers from across the country and the world any day, visit Newseum.org’s Front Page Gallery.
January 18th, 2010 | by Sara | uncategorized
Jan
18
Following Mark McGwire’s steroid confession last week, Charles Apple’s Visual Editors design blog took a look at the work produced by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As usual, designers Erica Smith and Josh Renaud and the entire staff did a great job.
On a related note, I was at the game in which McGwire hit home runs No. 69 and No. 70. It was an exciting time, and I had a T-shirt commemorating the event (which might still be around somewhere).
December 6th, 2009 | by Sara | uncategorized
Dec
06
Designers and photographers will find these Photoshop refrigerator magnets pretty funny.
November 13th, 2009 | by Sara | uncategorized
Nov
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November 5th, 2009 | by Sara | uncategorized
Nov
05
I was walking into the Metro station one morning last week when Express, the Washington Post’s free paper, caught my eye. The cover was reminiscent of an Adobe advertisement I had seen blanketing D.C. for weeks. “Wow,” I thought, “They have a story on that?!? I’ve been curious what it’s all about.” So I picked up the paper. (Note: I never pick up the free papers by the Metro because reading on the Metro makes me motion-sick.)
What I discovered is that the whole outside of the paper was an advertising wrap. Thus, all I saw was yet another ad, and the paper had no story about Adobe. I suppose the ad did its job, though, because I was so frustrated that I finally went to the website that’s been on all the ads to see what it was about. The ad campaign is “Adobe Opens Up …” and it appears to just be saying, “Hey, we’re really useful” and “More people should buy us.”