Fashion Magazine - Latest News, Catwalk Photos & Designers (Vogue.com UK) Issue. Cover Story: Daft Punk | Features. Daft Punk started working on Random Access Memories in 2008, playing almost everything on their own and making loops, just like they had done before.
But it didn't feel right. “It became clear that we were limited by our own disability to hold a groove the way we wanted for more than eight or 16 bars,” admits Bangalter. “Something we love about disco is the idea of playing the same groove over and over again—your brain can tell it's not a sample that's being replayed.” So they enlisted technically masterful instrumentalists (the kind of guys who grace the covers of magazines like Modern Drummer and Bass Musician), put different combinations of players together, explained their ideas, laid down sheet music or hummed melodies, and collected tons of original recordings on analog tape.
“The idea of working with musicians was way beyond making it sound better,” says Bangalter. “It was an opportunity to create something on a very personal level with people that we admire the most.” The Verge. Newsweek 2.0: A New Model For Online Magazines. When it was announced last fall that Newsweek, after nearly 80 years as a weekly news magazine, would ditch print and go all digital, it seemed to many like an ill omen—the first step toward an inevitable demise, sort of like when a network unceremoniously boots a faltering TV show to a Saturday night time slot. And indeed, the prospects for Newsweek's survival as a subscriber-supported, tablet-first magazine looked grim; consider the fate of News Corp’s much ballyhooed iPad-only mag The Daily, which was a complete and utter dud despite considerable resources and ringing endorsements from Apple itself. Thankfully, that isn’t quite the path Newsweek is headed down today.
Its new lease on life doesn’t just come in the form of a tablet app but a website, too, built with the help of Huge, the digital agency whose successes include the beloved HBO GO app and Google Think Insights. "I think there’s actually a beautiful restraint with what Newsweek is," he explains. Fashion Magazine - Latest News, Catwalk Photos & Designers (Vogue.com UK) Graphic News - Las noticias de la semana. 35 Traditional Newspaper Website Designs | designrouge.com. Newspaper website design could amaze you if you are going to study it from the viewpoint of a designer. No matter what kind of news they feature, such websites should display a large amount of contents right on their home pages. Creating the navigation, usability and layout of a newspaper website then is a great challenge for a designer. The perspectives that you can learn from studying a newspaper website design is very valuable if you are a designer who must work on blog theme designs and other kinds of websites.
At present, the number of people who want to keep themselves updated on the run continue to grow. To help you understand the subject better, I have compiled a list of 35 newspaper website design examples that can really inspire you. Browse on each of the newspaper website design examples I have presented below if you want more enlightenment. Los Angeles Times – MORE INFO 20 Minutes – MORE INFO CNN iReport – MORE INFO USA Today – MORE INFO ABC.es – MORE INFO Bild – MORE INFO. 33: World’s Best Designed website: BostonGlobe.com. By SND Headquarters A team of top journalists met earlier this year at Ball State to chose the winners in SND’s Best of Digital News Design competition. They came from Madrid, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, London, Washington DC and Chicago. The judges are: Jonathon Berlin, Chiqui Esteban, Brian Ellcierto, Tyson Evans, Jeremy Gilbert, Jennifer George-Palilonis, Sara Quinn, Joey Marburger, Ryan Mark, Rob Schneider, Will Sullivan, David Wright, Chrys Wu and Ben Wuersching.
Leading up to the judging we asked members to submit nominees for the World’s Best Designed Website and apps. After carefully considering that list and those submitted by entries into the SND’s Best of Digital Design competition, the judges have selected one website as this year’s World’s Best Designed for 2011: That site is the BostonGlobe.com which decisively raised the bar for digital news design with its embrace of responsive design.
Congratulations to the Globe staff. Interaction design is maturing rapidly. How to design news sites. Recently, a friend suggested that I write an analysis of news websites: what they’re doing right, and what they’re doing wrong. He suggested that the online news experience was too backward, and maybe a bit boring, and figured that they could make better use of AJAX and similar technologies to streamline content delivery and site navigation. I was inclined to agree at first. I feel that, in many cases, newspapers are still trying too hard to maintain the physical newspaper experience, but with a sliding images approach. In doing this, they often restrict themselves to a familiar but somewhat limiting visual format. This trend also shows itself in some very poor UX decisions, such as almost illegibly small body text.
I know it’s been said before, but the web, as a visual medium, is fluid. So when we see how many major news outlets limit themselves, it’s disappointing in the light of what could be done by making more use of AJAX. Or maybe not… It all comes down to the mobile experience. The NSA Spy Scandal For Dummies, Via The Guardian. After six months of detailed yet complicated revelations about the scope of the National Security Agency's digital spying program, the Guardian on Friday released a multimedia experience for those who haven't been paying the closest attention, which, let's be honest, is a lot of us. "NSA Files: Decoded," an interactive explainer already dubbed "Snowdenfall" in a nod to the Times's recent multimedia projects, distills the scope of the program into videos, calculators, spinning globes, and embedded documents that we can all understand. At first glance, it looks like another highly produced multimedia bonanza. Unlike similar "Snow Fall" look-alikes, however, "Decoded"'s MO is simplicity.
"The whole goal of the project is to tell the story of the NSA files in an accessible and relatable way using all the tools of the Internet," Gabriel Dance, the Guardian's interactive director, told Fast Company. Yet, the user experience doesn't overwhelm. The piece is, therefore, bursting with utility. New York Times offers a glimpse at the homepage of the future. The New York Times is offering another sneak peek at the future of nytimes.com today, with an advance look at the new homepage, sections fronts, and article pages. The paper is offering staffers inside Times HQ a chance to kick the tires of the new site and offer feedback before the rest of the world sees the site next year. (You can see the previewed sections below) At first glance the redesigned nytimes homepage my not appear that different from its current state. But a closer look shows a front page that features new fonts, and has rearranged the way users navigate on the Times site.
The site index on the left hand side of the page has been dropped to the bottom in favor of a sections menu that mirrors the Times iPad app. The new homepage also has a fixed navigation bar (which includes “Most Emailed” and “Recommended For You” among sections like World, US, New York, among others), that stays with users as they scroll down the page. Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature. The New York Times Fights "Snow Fall" Fatigue With More Snow Falls--And It's Working. This weekend's New York Times Sunday magazine hits us, yet again, with another "Snow Fall"-esque multimedia feature. The difference? This time, you may actually want to read the whole thing. Similar highly stylized Times projects, while very pretty, "are bad for the web and bad for readers,"critics have argued, with too many bells and whistles that ultimately overwhelm readers.
"A Game of Shark and Minnow," however, is an evolution in the format, as the Times responds to the backlash to the Snow Fall-ification of the Internet, with better versions of Snow Fall. "I think we’re aware of those criticisms with the other projects and it’s in our heads for sure," Steve Duenes, the Times's associate managing editor, told Fast Company. "Those criticisms" for Snow Fall-type projects come in two variants: price and utility. The Times does more than just parallax, but it has cut down on resources by streamlining its process. But does the Times need to spend the money for the multimedia experience? The Times developing a 'suite of tools' for regular multimedia publishing.
Copyright: Screenshot from thesundaytimes.com The Times is developing a "suite of tools" to allow the newsroom to produce multimedia articles quickly and easily in the future. In a post published on The Times Digital Development blog yesterday, Joseph Stashko, digital news development editor, and news developer Ændrew Rininsland explain how a recent article, 'My Year with Malala', was built using WordPress and Twitter Bootstrap tools.
"We're not at the stage at the moment where putting together a long-form piece like Malala can be done easily with a template," Stashko told Journalism.co.uk. "But it's definitely what we're aiming for. Right now we just want to review and refine the process, and start thinking about how we turn what we've built into a tool for the newsroom. " Currently available outside of the News UK paywall, the article bears many of the hallmarks of modern, 'rich-content' articles, integrating video footage and large photographs into a scrolling, long-form read. The rise of the reader: journalism in the age of the open web | Katharine Viner. I'd like to begin with a true story. I was recently conducting a job interview for a Guardian role, and I asked the interviewee, who had worked only in print journalism, how he thought he'd cope working in digital news.
In reply he said, "Well, I've got a computer. I've been using computers for years. " His answer was funny, but also revealing: clearly he believed that digital is just a technological development; just a new kind of word processing. In fact, digital is a huge conceptual change, a sociological change, a cluster bomb blowing apart who we are and how our world is ordered, how we see ourselves, how we live. It's a change we're in the middle of, so close up that sometimes it's hard to see. But it is deeply profound and it is happening at an almost unbelievable speed. I'd like to talk about what this change is doing to journalism, and the opportunities that are possible if you are truly open to the web. Information: from fixed to free-flowing A newspaper is complete. Why The WebView Is The Future Of Mac OS X Apps. Twenty years out of date and kludgy, current design tools like Photoshop and Illustrator force designers to create mockups manually.
Frustrated by what they felt was an Adobe design monopoly, the creators of Macaw set out to build a totally new kind of design tool. But when technical challenges popped up, it was an open source project from Adobe itself that saved them--and convinced them that their technology was headed in the right direction. “We were just a couple of guys who were sick of the way the industry was being run by some of the big companies,” says CEO Tom Giannattasio. “It definitely feels like we were revolting against the options we had.” "Hybrid" Desktop Apps Use WebViews, Just Like Some Mobile Apps Historically, there have been two ways to build an app. The first is to create a native app that runs locally on a device--the best choice when performance and native features (like offline mode) are required. However, there is a third choice. 12Reactions 3Reactions 4Reactions. Wrappers delight by Richard Preston - Telegraph.
While Tunnock is a wealthy man and has the trappings to show – he is a keen racer of a 38ft yacht called Lemarac (that’s caramel spelt backwards) – there is a strong charitable streak to him. He is an elder in the Church of Scotland, chairs the west of Scotland advisory board for the Salvation Army, and was off that night to open a new shop for the RNLI in Troon. Even the personalised plates on his Rolls-Royce are not that showy – they begin at and were inherited from his father. Some of the staff, almost all of whom on the production lines are women, worry about what Tunnock’s will be like without him.
He and his wife, Anne, have three daughters and six grandchildren, and all of them have worked or at least helped out at the factory at various times. With his daughter Karen and her husband, Fergus Loudon, the sales manager, both directors of the firm, the family legacy looks secure. As with Premier League football teams, who’s to say that interest wouldn’t come from the Middle East? Eight examples of long-form digital content projects. In researching for last week's Journalism.co.uk podcast on long-form journalism and digital opportunities, we came across a number of interesting digital projects - some which have been around for years and others yet to launch - which are focused on the production or curation of long-form content, from text and audio to video.
Here is a list of just eight examples we came across (in no particular order) for anyone interested in in-depth content production, or reading, online. Feel free to suggest any others in the comments below. 1. The Atavist The Atavist, based in the US, has been around for about a year and a half now. Its non-fiction pieces are multimedia-rich, with a mix of text, audio, video and images. 2. Matter, which was co-founded by Bobbie Johnson in the UK and Jim Giles in the US, is focused on long-form science and technology journalism, and is due to launch next month. 3. 4. 5.
Narratively is a multimedia project dedicated to in-depth stories on New York-focused themes. 7.