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Why All Journalists Should Care About Good Design

Designing for Print

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Why All Journalists Should Care About Good Design

"Why do the Supreme Court’s decisions on gay marriage matter to you?," The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/your-own-words/scotus-gay-marriage/

"Where Were You on Sept. 11, 2001?," The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-reckoning/where-were-you-september-11-map.html?_r=0

"Fonts have feelings too," Medium
https://medium.com/who-what-why/fonts-have-feelings-too-1523564d966c

"Science Explains The Enduring Appeal Of Bland, Symmetrical Layouts," Fast Company Design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3031428/evidence/science-explains-the-enduring-appeal-of-boring-layouts

"Are Some Fonts More Believable Than Others?," Fast Company Design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670556/are-some-fonts-more-believable-than-others

"Font Conference," College Humor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM&=kp

"Can design save newspapers?," TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/jacek_utko_asks_can_design_save_the_newspaper

"Eyewitness," The Virginian Pilot
http://hamptonroads.com/eyewitness

"City of Anarchy," South China Morning Post
http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1430050/city-anarchy

"'Syria's ‘Martyrs'," The National Post
http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/fo0114_syriadeathtoll1.pdf

"Tale of the Tape," The National Post
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/45/1d/bf/451dbf8f56988807601f0c5a81472692.jpg

"Gay rights in the US, state by state," The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2012/may/08/gay-rights-united-states

"How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk," The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

"Snow Fall," The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/?forceredirect=yes#/?part=tunnel-creek

"six:01," The Commercial Appeal
http://media.commercialappeal.com/mlk/

"Borderland," NPR>
http://apps.npr.org/borderland/

"NSA FILES; DECODED," The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded

"An open letter on the value of Design," Society of News Design
http://www.snd.org/2010/07/the-value-of-design/



Designing For Print

"The Shrinking U.S. Newspaper: 1964 – 2011," The Daily Mirror
http://ladailymirror.com/2011/10/25/the-shrinking-u-s-newspaper-1966-2011/

"Innovations to ‘Dispatch’ will impress you," The Columbus Dispatch
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/insight/2013/01/20/1-innovations-to-dispatch-will-impress.html

"Mid-Term Election Fold-In," Post Typography for The Washington Post
http://www.posttypography.com/illustration/mid-term-election-fold-in-cover/

"World Cup Ball," Times of Oman
http://vimeo.com/97001010

"Using white space to divide and conquer," NewsDesign.com
http://www.newsdesigns.com/newspaper-design/trends-newspaper-design/using-white-space-to-divide-and-conquer/

"The New York Times' Sports Section's Ingenious Lebron James Cover," Fast Co. Design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033023/the-new-york-times-sports-sections-ingenious-lebron-james-cover

"Home," Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://hoopeduponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lebron-james-return-plain-dealer-cover.jpg

"Newsprint Font Collection," Hoefler & Co.
http://www.typography.com/collections/newsprint/

"Newspaper Fonts," The Font Bureau, Inc.
http://www.fontbureau.com/newspaper/

Type Connection, A Typographic Dating Game
http://www.typeconnection.com/index.php

"Formatting text easily and consistently using Paragraph Styles in InDesign CC," Adobe TV
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-indesign-cc/formatting-text-easily-and-consistently-using-paragraph-styles-in-indesign-cc/

"Mastering master pages," Adobe TV
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-indesign-cc/pages-mastering-master-pages/

TileMill, MapBox
https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/



Designing For Web

"Responsive Icons," Joe Harrison
http://www.joeharrison.co.uk/projects/responsiveicons

"FOLD," MIT Media Lab
http://fold.media.mit.edu/

"Card stacks," Vox
http://www.vox.com/cardstacks

"Will The New York Times Redesign Lead To A New Web Standard?," Fast Co, Design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672123/will-the-new-york-times-redesign-lead-to-a-new-web-standard

"The new latimes.com," The Los Angles Times
http://asithappens.latimes.com/

"ScreenSmart Webfonts Collection," Hoefler & Co.
http://www.typography.com/collections/screensmart/

"Webtype," The Font Bureau,Inc.
http://www.fontbureau.com/webfonts/

"Type on Screen," Ellen Lupton
http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616891701

Type Connection, A Typographic Dating Game
http://www.typeconnection.com/index.php

Datawrapper, ABZV
https://datawrapper.de/

Tableau
http://www.tableausoftware.com/

TimelineJS, Knight Lab
http://timeline.knightlab.com/

CartoDB Odyssey
http://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/

ThingLink
https://www.thinglink.com/

TileMill, MapBox
https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/

CartoDB
https://cartodb.com/

Google Maps Engine
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/

Document Cloud, The Knight Foundation
http://www.documentcloud.org/home

SoundCite, Knight Lab
http://soundcite.knightlab.com/



Other Resources

News Design & Other Inspiration, Twitter list
https://twitter.com/jadiehm/lists/news-design-inspiration

"World’s Best-Designed Newspapers," Society of News Design
http://www.snd.org/2013/02/snd34-judges-pick-worlds-best-designed-newspapers/

"World's Best Digital Design," Society for News Design
http://www.snd.org/2014/03/snd35-worlds-best-digital-design/

"Best of News Design Annual," Society for News Design
http://www.snd.org/join/the-snd-store/

"The Newspaper Designer's Handbook," Tim Harrower and Julie M. Elman
http://www.timharrower.com/ndh.html

"Thinking With Type," Ellen Lupton
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/

"The Functional Art," Alberto Cairo
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/

"Visualize This," Nathan Yau
http://book.flowingdata.com/