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01.30.2009—10am    Post #469
Bad economic news: design to the rescue

TAKEAWAY: Rarely a day passes when one does not wake up to another series of dismal economic news—-not just for our own media industry, but generally. Eventually, readers become inmune to the giant figures that parade before our eyes. Doom and gloom become part of the daily news landscape. Designers reach for special effects to make those shock-proof readers and users react. Here are some examples.

Two examples come to view today:

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The Guardian: Where did the money go?

In London, The Guardian’s online edition uses an animated graphic with the enticing headline: Where did all the money go?.
The editors proceed to explain the global financial pyramid with a series of bubbles that intensify as one clicks from one image to the next, showing the full effect of losses, in a visual, easy to follow manner.

Follow the graphic here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/dan-roberts-on-business-blog/interactive/2009/jan/29/financial-pyramid

Goteborgs Posten: The Volvo Crash

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Swedish newspaper, like the GP, print large size posters to stimulate street sales

Volvo, the automobile manufacturer, is Goteborg’s largest business and employer. Today, with the news that the company is losing 2,7 million Swedish crowns per hour, editors used a poster look for the front page, with an image of a crash test from Volvo, following it up with a large photo/graphic image of Volvo’s CEO with superimposed graphic indicating recent losses.

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Today Rodrigo Fino writes about “design surprises”:
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