Old masterworks, modern graphics

The Thyssen Museum of Madrid shares on its web an infographic to navigate through time and artworks of its collection. And when I say share, I mean they give you a code to include it on your own web. Your product could be old and classic, but you can sell it on the most modern ways

MotionGraphics

This is what Zack Wise is preparing for nytimes.com...

NYTimes After Effects Demo Reel 2009 from Zach Wise on Vimeo.

Looks great. Via @drewvigal

Visualizing crowdsourcing: Trendsmap

We all know nytimes.com is an innovative newsroom. A good example of that is this Twitter map of the Superbowl.




The location of the tweets during the match showed very interesting. And now, these kind of solutions with Twitter can be found on Trendmaps, a trendtopics visualizator for this microblogging service.

This is an example on the visual power of the crowdsourcing data. Visualization has become a powerful way to understand trends and what's happening on thsi interconnected world. So you know what you have to do: tell your children to become infographic experts: there's a future for them! :)

Links to all the ÑH6 interactive design and infographic Awards

The linked post is in spanish, but you don't need to know much spanish or portuguese to understand the graphics.

ÑH6: the Best design of Spain & Portugal

Image: The judges (snd-e.com)

The ÑH6 are the design awards of the spanish chapter of the SND. They choose the best works of Spain and Portugal of the last year (from september to september). The big awards (best designed) have been for Expresso (print, large), i (print, medium), Heraldo de Soria (print, small), Magazine de El Mundo (magazine), as.com (web, large) y lainformacion.com (web, small). I'm specially glad for the awards to lainformacion.com, where I work, and i, where I have a very small role as infographics consultant. But let's talk about graphics, although if you want to know all the awarded here you are the complete list in a PDF.

PRINT NEWSPAPERS

Breaking news

Mention La Voz de Galicia (A Coruña). 'Quince revisiones exhaustivas en un año'
Mention Diari de Girona. 'Els casos confirmats a tot el món…'

Features

Gold Público (Madrid). 'F1, las novedades de la temporada'.
Gold Jornal i (Lisbon). 'Exterminador Implacável'.
Silver Diário de Notícias (Lisbon). 'Atentados mais mortíferos'.
Silver Público (Lisbon). 'O mapa-múndi do CO2'.
Silver Público (Lisbon). 'Presos na baía de Cuba'.
Silver Público (Lisbon). 'Arrancam hoje as obras do metro para Gondomar'.
Silver Público (Lisbon). 'De onde vem a nossa luz?'.
Silver Diario de Pontevedra. 'Por dónde se movieron los tres candidatos'.
Mention Público (Madrid). 'Los 191 números uno de la Motown'.
Mention Público (Lisbon). 'Onde pára o défice'.
Mention Diario de Burgos. 'Semana Santa, paso a paso'.

Portfolios

Gold Público (Madrid). Portafolio 'Elecciones europeas del 7-J'.
Silver El País (Madrid). 'Catástrofe aérea en Madrid'.
Mention El País (Madrid). Portfolio 'Alerta sanitaria'.
Mention El País (Madrid). Portfolio 'Fórmula 1'.

MAGAZINES

Features

Gold Revista Única, Expresso (Lisbon). 'As idades do sexo'.
Mention Revista Única, Expresso (Lisbon). 'A grande mentira!'.

Portfolios

Mention Noticias.CUN (Pamplona). 'Portfolio'.

ONLINE

Breaking news

Silver www.marca.com (Madrid). 'Calendario Copa Confederaciones 2009'.
Silver www.lainformacion.com (Madrid). 'En busca de la caja negra del A330 de Air France'.

Features

Silver www.marca.com (Madrid). 'Así funcionan los difusores en la Fórmula 1'.
Silver www.lainformacion.com (Madrid). 'Antes de ver Harry Potter y el Príncipe Mestizo'.
Mention www.marca.com (Madrid). 'Las claves del juego de Rudy Fernández'.
Mention www.marca.com (Madrid). 'Raúl máximo goleador histórico del Real Madrid'.
Mention www.publico.pt (Lisbon). 'Energia das ondas em Portugal'.
Mention www.publico.pt (Lisbon). 'Há morcegos no Alviela... E na web'.
Mention www.eitb.com (Bilbao). 'La autopista Eibar-Vitoria AP-1'.
Mention www.lainformacion.com (Madrid). 'Influencias de Michael Jackson en la música hip hop'.
Mention www.lainformacion.com (Madrid). 'Explorador de población extranjera en España'.

Specials

Silver www.marca.com (Madrid). 'La hoja de ruta del Tour 2009'.
Mention www.lainformacion.com (Madrid). '40 años en la luna'.
Mention www.hiru.com (Bilbao). 'Portafolio gráficos': Barrenadores, Cambio climático, Energía eólica, Arrastre de bueyes, Levantamiento de carretas, Recogida de Mazorcas, Carreras de sacos, La trainera, Calzada romana, Segalaris, La vida en las cuevas, Aizkolaris, Parlamento Vasco, TDT, Txistu, Trikitixa y Pandero, La dultzaina, Yunque, Fardo, Sokatira, Levantadores de piedras, Trontza, Txingas.
Mention www.consumer.es (Elorrio, Vizcaya). 'Portafolio de gráficos': Casas prefabricadas, Baño en la playa para discapacitados, Marcapasos interno, Ultraportátiles, Videocámaras, Edifcios ecológicos, Granizo, Cajas negras, Cámaras digitales cuatro tercios y micro cuatro tercios, Faros costeros, Skateboarding.

Innovation

Silver www.marca.com (Madrid). 'Trayectoria de los equipos dentro del Resumen de la Liga 2008-2009'.
Silver www.lavanguardia.es (Barcelona). 'Hemeroteca de La Vanguardia'.
Silver www.tv3.cat/hd (Barcelona). 'A la carta HD'.
Mention www.marca.com (Madrid). 'Calendario de los Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín'.
Mention www.lainformacion.com (Madrid). 'Matisse en el Thyssen'.
Mention www.lainformacion.com (Madrid). 'Así suena Madrid'.

So, just focusing on graphics, the medals leave this list:

1. Público (Madrid): 2 golds, 1 mention

2. Revista Única: 1 gold, 1 mention

3. i: 1 gold

4. marca.com: 4 silvers, 3 mentions

5. Público (Lisbon): 4 silvers, 1 mention

6. lainformacion.com: 2 silvers, 5 mentions

7. El País: 1 silver, 2 mentions

8. Diario de Noticias: 1 silver

-. Diario de Pontevedra: 1 silver

-. lavanguardia.es: 1 silver

-. tv3.car: 1 silver

12. publico.pt: 2 mentions

13. eitb.com: 1 mention

-. hiru.com: 1 mention

-. consumer.es: 1 mention

-. noticias.CUN: 1 mention

-. Diario de Burgos: 1 mention

Sorry for not uploading examples and just linking our examples. I hope I can upload sime works and link more online graphics soon, but I'm still without internet connection in my new flat, so if you have some examples just send them to me or link them on comments. I will post them as soon as I can.

Infographic-design-journalistic details of my trip to USA

I have just arrived from USA, where I have visited NY, Boston, Cape Cod and Vermont. As infographic journalist there have been some details that called my attention:

1. The New York Times has a department with the only task to analyze trends and details form the public statitistics. Other detail: the director, Bill Keller, works with the rest of the journalist, as the chief editors. Keller's office is actually really small, but he's always outside. This details make you understand a little better why this newspaper makes so good journalism.

Foto: Mediabistro

2. Respect to infographics. Xocas (The New York Times) and Javier Zarracina (Boston Globe) explained how are the infograhics department treated on their respective newspaper: as any other section. It could sound as logical, but things don't work always that way. Adn, in this difficult times for media, Boston Globe, in a very hard situation, has kept its five members of the infographics department meanwhile the rest of the departments of the journal had many people fired. At NYT hirings are frozen. But infographics department has been the one and only department to hire people in the last years.

3. More organized, less visual. NY (and some other cities) uses numbers to name streets and avenues. This make much easier to find them, and it's very difficult to get lost. Just a liitle detail: as Manhattan's first settlements were on the south of the island, the numbers grow from south to north (and from east to west), just the opposite of how we read. In other hand, the traffic signals uses much more text than the european ones, where a very high percentage is iconic.

4. The success of Gotham. Fairey's Obama poster used Gotham typeface. Now you can see Gotham in many many many shops, posters or flyers. Don't if that has been always that way or just people has associated Gotham with success.

5. Fascinated by maps. Don't know if it's just my impression, or northamericans love maps. Public libraries have good collections of them, and looked like the most important pieces on them.

It had been stopped for a while...

The causes: I moved to a new house which, at the moment, continues without internet connection. The other cause is that I'm now abroad, in a little trip around New England (USA). As soon as I'm back, I'll start posting again, almost daily. Sorry!