This post is delayed—I was planning to commemorate 10 years of being on Twitter back in July, but other things got in the way. However, with the furore around Elon Musk’s buy-out of the site, it seems pertinent to write about Twitter now, especially as many people I follow are starting to flee the platformContinue reading “Design Twitter”
Category Archives: Media
Mainstream discussions on graphic design
Mainstream media doesn’t often do graphic design, and when it does it rarely does it seriously. Preference is more often given over to art, architecture, interior design, photography and fashion. On the odd occasion when an appropriately critical article does appear, (one that does not claim that the journalist’s 6 year old daughter could haveContinue reading “Mainstream discussions on graphic design”
Newsprint isn’t dead, yet
Just before lockdown I had several conversations with colleagues and students about whether newspapers would survive Covid-19. At the prospect of newsagents and train stations closing for months on end, and assuming these are the prime retailers for newspapers outside of people having them delivered, I predicted the situation could be devastating for printed journalism.Continue reading “Newsprint isn’t dead, yet”
The Guardian is dead, long live The Guardian
Today sees the last copy of The Guardian in its Berliner format. What is about to follow will be known by those that come to this blog post after Monday 15 January 2018, when the new look Guardian is launched. But for now, only the new masthead has been revealed in a video teaser. TheContinue reading “The Guardian is dead, long live The Guardian”
Bullying tactics
It is not too bold a statement to claim that advertising is designed to interrupt our vision and assert itself into our conscious and subconscious minds. If it didn’t, corporations would not devote huge budgets to it. But recently I have observed a growth online of adverts that actually disrupt host content, in what canContinue reading “Bullying tactics”
Press release
I’ve long believed The Guardian to be the best designed newspaper in the country, which is convenient for me considering some may think I fit the profile of a typical reader—feminist liberal-left vegetarian art teacher. It would be difficult for me to take if the Daily Mail fitted this design accolade. But I like The Guardian for moreContinue reading “Press release”
Analogue blog
I don’t know whether people still produce fanzines or not, but Kek-W is so tired of writing online that he has decided to produce one. Or rather, as he calls it, an analogue blog. Titled Kid Shirt, this is basically a physically constructed fanzine involving actual cut and paste, which has then been scanned as aContinue reading “Analogue blog”
Nigel Ball 