Updated Monday, July 12, 12:17 EST
TAKEAWAY: First day back from beach vacation with the family, celebrating Spain’s victory in the World Cup, plus links of interest.
Felicidades, España!
The Spanish papers: Spain at the top of the world!
Not such a happy seen for the Dutch, as seen on front page of Amsterdam’s Het Parool
Diario de Noticias, Madeira, Portugal
From Peru’s La Republica.
The World Cup 2010 is now history, but such is the case for Spain, which for the first time has won football’s main event and taken home the coveted trophy. Today we show you a front page from Peru’s La Republica, showing a simple, but direct and effective Bravo for the Spanish team. Ricardo Cervera, La Republica’s design director, has sent us the pdf along with several other pages showing how his newspaper covered the World Cup 2010.
Kicker celebrates its 90th birthday
Kicker celebrates 90 years of the World Cup
….and it reminds readers of how much times have changed: Kicker’s coverage now multi platform
Meanwhile, in Germany, Kicker, the sports newspaper,celebrates itself and its 90th birthday, with tons of memorabilia of its coverage through 9 decades, highlighting Germany’s three wins in the World Cup: 1950, 1974, 1990.. Frank Deville, in Luxembourg, a former professional football player himself, enjoyed these pages of Kicker and sent them along this morning.
Links of interest
As I “disconnected” during my vacation, I asked our summer intern Reed Reibstein (Yale University ‘11) to keep an eye out for topics of interest to revisit once the blog kicked back into gear. Here are some of his suggested itesms of interest, with his own interpretations. I have looked at them and found them worthy of mention here as well.
Tablets and useability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad-kindle-reading.html
Jakob Nielsen published a second iPad usability article, following up on “First Findings from User Testing” . Any tablet research is a very good thing, but this study, on reading on the iPad, Kindle 2, and the book, does not provide much objective information. Specifically, the study fails to isolate or even mention the typographic variables in the experiment (typeface, point size, leading, etc.). Without these controls, his summary, “A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they’re still slower than reading print,” cannot be relied upon. Still, there is little reason to doubt his optimistic conclusion that tablets will soon equal and perhaps surpass the readability of a book.
Someone hates Helvetica
http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/the-helvetica-killer
The Helvetica Killer: Type designer Bruno Maag discusses his distaste for Helvetica and his campaign to replace it.
The one-page newspaper?
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Express-Newspaper/559470
One-Page Newspaper: A student in India creates a single page newspaper as an experiment in information architecture.
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