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Feb. 8: Cartoon characters invade page one in Hartford, Conn.

It’s rather low on the page. But there is an amazing assortment of cartoon characters on page one of today’s Hartford Courant. The story, of course, is a new advertising campaign by MetLife Insurance — the first commercial of which you may have seen during the Super Bowl. Here’s a closer look at the illustration, which is presumably a handout [...]

Feb. 2: How newspapers played the Facebook IPO on page one today (2)

Just a few papers had fun today with the announcement that Facebook is about ready for an Initial Public Offering — or IPO — of stock. This is expected to raise $5 billion or more for the company. — DAILY NEWS Palo Alto, Calif. Circulation: 18,500 The paper in Palo Alto led today with a picture of tourists standing beside [...]

Jan. 18: Washington Business Journal’s Timothy Wong moving to Washington Post

Timothy Wong, design editor of the Washington Business Journal in Arlington, Va., is moving to the Washington Post, where he’ll join the digital design team working on mobile products, reports Eddie Scarry of MediaBistro‘s FishbowlDC blog. Scarry quotes Tim as saying: The position seemed like a unique opportunity that would give me more exposure to the digital side of the [...]

Jan. 10: Reading Eagle launches new weekly biz tab, standalone graphics column

The 49,375-circulation Eagle of Reading, Pa., last week launched a weekly business tabloid. They called it — oddly enough — Business Weekly. The Eagle‘s Craig Schaffer tells us: As part of the prototype, my design editor asked me to develop a large standalone graphic. The graphic developed into an “illustrated column” with my mug and everything.   When the prototype [...]

Oct. 7, 2011: An interesting how-to for a complex business graphic

Check out this complex graphic from the upcoming issue of Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek magazine. Click for a larger view: According to the artist — BusinessWeek graphics director Jennifer Daniel –  that graphic shows… …how U.S. corporations lobby for tax breaks by hiring lots of former congressional staffers to lobby for them. It’s not enough that Jennifer posted it in her blog. She [...]

July 21, 2011: A fun Google+ illustration today in the San Jose Mercury News

The story today in silicon valley: Google+ and its battle against Facebook and Twitter. And how better to illustrate that story than by comparing it to a good ol’ Lucha Libre-style wrasslin’ match? Click for a much larger view: The illustration is by Pai, the graphics director for the San Jose Mercury News. Pai tells us: The graphic was initially [...]

Feb. 24, 2011: A very busy Wednesday in Johannesburg

Yesterday was so busy here at MediaPark in Johannesburg. Which is the way I like it. I started the day with a 90-minute presentation to the Media24 Journalism Academy. This consists of a group of college graduates, hired for a year-long internship that is really more like a medical residency program. Except, y’know, without the doctors. Or the sick people. [...]

Jan. 4, 2011: Kalamazoo’s Kris Kinkade headed for USA Today

Kris Kinkade spotted his birthday announcement in the blog this morning and realized he needed to bring me up-to-date on his job status. Kris writes: Thanks for the birthday wish. I’d been meaning to write you, but things have been crazy busy the past couple weeks. Based on your blog posts, I’d say it has been the same for you. [...]

Dec. 4, 2010: A fun first-person graphic for the business page (4)

There’s something very interesting on the back page of today’s Sake24, the business section inserted into the Saturday Afrikaans-language dailies here in South Africa: Die Burger in Cape Town, Volksblad in Bloemfontein and Beeld here in Johannesburg. Or, at least, I hope it’s interesting. It’s a first-person alternative storyform graphic in which I write about my experiences dealing with South [...]

Oct. 14, 2010: Catching up with the Chicago Tribune’s Josh Crutchmer

There was a little bombshell tossed into my post — here in the blog Tuesday night — about the end of the SportsDesigner blog. It was buried pretty deep, so perhaps you didn’t catch it. That bombshell is this: Josh Crutchmer is no longer the sports design editor of the Chicago Tribune. He’s now the business design editor. Where he’s [...]

Sept. 22, 2010: Sake24 of Johannesburg, South Africa, seeking a visual editor

Sake24 — the business news unit of the Media24 group of newspapers in South Africa — is seeking an overall visual editor. I worked with these guys very closely last year, so I have a huge interest in making sure they find someone top-notch. They asked me to post their job listing, but I’m eager to give you some thoughts [...]

Sept. 6, 2010: A look at Huntsville’s special Sunday sections (1)

My old friend Paul Wallen — design director of the Times of Huntsville, Ala. — sent me samples of two special projects that inserted into the Sunday paper. The first was a commemorative section celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Space Flight Center, where much of the engineering work was done on Apollo, the space shuttle and the international [...]

July 12, 2010: Baltimore ‘b”s Timothy Wong moves to Washington Business Journal

Timothy Wong began work Friday as design editor of the Washington Business Journal in Arlington, Va. A 2008 graduate of the University of Maryland, Tim interned with the Baltimore Sun, USA Today and the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va.. In April 2008, Timothy became art director of b, the free youth-oriented tabloid published by the Baltimore Sun. A few samples of [...]