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Aug. 25th When the fingers do the reading: handling lists of information

TAKEAWAY: There is a difference between reading a narrative-style story and a list of items. I call it “finger reading” and it requires the designer to use special strategies. Pure Design download today is all about how to make long lists more palatable.

Letting the fingers do the reading

They are not the designer’s favorite task when it comes to a redesign: those long, awful, small-type logs of information as in “where to go and what to do”, or “sports results” .  They don’t have to be boring, and, indeed, there are things you can do to make those lists pop on the page.

 

The Impact of the Compact

Pure Design: Download entire section: Type

Download entire first section of Pure Design: Words

Now that I have fully presented the first of six sections of Pure Design on TheMarioBlog, I am offering the entire initial section, “Words,“ available for download—all 33 pages of it. This may be useful for those of you saving or printing out Pure Design and will be done following each of the remaining sections. At the end of our journey through words, type, layout, color, pictures, and process, I will publish the entirety of Pure Design in one file.

Who is Jacky?

Jacky belongs to Frank Deville.  The Luxembourg-based pooch is an “avid reader” of the German newspaper, Bild Am Sonntag. Every Sunday Jacky picks stories and interesting graphics in Bild Am Sonntag , the German newspaper.

 

 

WAN’s World Trends 2009 Report

The 2009 edition of World Press Trends from WAN/IFRA is now available. I always like to review this report for its complete information on global circulation, advertising and online trends in our industry.  All countries in the world where daily newspapers are published are covered in the publication.

This year the WAN/IFRA folks have decided to publish a print version but only make the book available on pdf.

Those interested go:
http://www.wan-press.org/forms/wpt2009.html

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Posted by Dr. Mario R. Garcia on August 25, 2009