Ford SHELBY vs CAMARO vs JEEP vs VAZ 2107 vs HELICOPTER - My cars (showreel)... SIGGRAPH'09: Steve Duenes (NYTimes Graphics Director) Keynote Talk. People address me with "Sir" (instead of "mate"), cars are bigger than my living room, and there is a high density of males with pony tails and beards. I must be in the US, and at the SIGGRAPH conference. While the last 2 days were quite interesting and inspirational (hopefully more about that soon), the main question of today was whether the keynote talk from Steve Duenes, Graphics Director at the New York Times, would fulfill the high expectations from the information aesthetics crowd present here. He heads a team of about 30 people, for the print media as well as all the interactive work.
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