Authors of scientific journals are building the kinds of prototypes for Web articles that media groups seemingly are unable, or unwilling to do.
Allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques.
Watch the video walk through below. These Cell Press and Elsevie article designs don’t use Flash, and yet, they don’t conceive of publishing articles without visuals. The designs promote transparency, interaction, and links to establish authority and reward contributors.
The Victoria Advocate's Harry Potter themed newspaper.
Visual editor, Ryan Huddle posted an impressive gallery of Harry Potter themed pages in the gallery on Visual Editors. (See slideshow embedded below)
He writes that his newspaper, the Victoria Advocate, had “a lot of success with the Victoria Prophet single pages we did in 2007. This year we went bigger and better with an entire section. We turned our weekly entertainment section into the Victoria Prophet with local feature stories, Advertising, Games, and we even have ads for the busniesses in the world of Harry Potter.”
In a time of contraction for some U.S. newsrooms it is heartening to see a paper take an idea like this and run with it and really, really do it right.
From Brussels, DeMorgen’s front page meshes the print and online worlds. A word glyph of the words from President Obama’s address paired with an iconic image and strongly worded headline.
Those word cloud graphics are striking and surprisingly easy to generate at worldle.net
Today I taught a magazine design at Cairo University, Faculty of Mass Communication and in the afternoon returned to finish the last day of my four day design workshop at the Supreme Press Council.
It’s been an adventurous 30 days in Egypt training student and professional journalists under the Media Development Program.
Below are some photo slideshows from my video and design classes conducted in Alexandria and Cairo.
Hyderabad: Below is a slideshow of photos from the start of a two day newspaper design and redesign workshop in Hyderabad, India. These photos were taken by my host V Antony, Business development manager of IFRA India. Antony’s background is in prepress - so hat’s off to him for making some nice documentary images.
The sold out training event brought together editors and designers from Singapore, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and their interest in gaining knowledge is great.
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
