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SND Winners: Updated for 2013 21 Feb 2013 | 05:56 am
The winners of the 34th Edition of the Best of News Design contest were released today, so I’ve updated my interactive crosstab of SND winners that lets you see at a glance which publications won awar...
MultiExporter: Multiple Resolutions 29 Feb 2012 | 06:58 am
Just pushed out an update to the Adobe Illustrator MultiExporter script that lets you specify if you want to export PNGs and JPGs at a different scale factor so that you can generate versions of the i...
Who Wins at SND 28 Feb 2012 | 06:27 pm
The Society for News Design’s annual contest is one of the handful of design and infographic contests that we enter each year. They’ve got a database online that lets you search the winners, but while...
Visualizing the News at AIGA 15 Oct 2011 | 01:17 pm
I had a great time speaking today at the AIGA Pivot design conference about how we approach data visualization and information graphics at The Times. I’ve posted the slides from my presentation as a ...
When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps 15 Oct 2011 | 03:12 am
View full interactive map on nytimes.com » Often, when you get data that is organized by geography — say, for example, food stamp rates in every county, high school graduation rates in every state, e...
Illustrator MultiExporter script: Now with JPG and EPS 4 Oct 2011 | 12:34 am
Just pushed out a little update to my Illustrator artboard and layer exporter script that adds JPG and EPS as export options. Read about how the script works and download it here: MultiExporter.jsx
Mapping the News 17 Jun 2011 | 04:13 pm
I spoke today at the New York City Arc Users Symposium about how The Times graphics department uses maps to explain the news and help readers better understand what’s happening in the world around the...
Export Illustrator Layers and/or Artboards as PNGs and PDFs 14 Jun 2011 | 03:24 pm
Over the last year or so, I’ve cobbled together a couple Illustrator scripts that export multiple artboards in an Illustrator document as PNG files, and export multiple layers as PNG files. (See my pr...
Caching HTTP Requests with Ruby 27 Apr 2011 | 02:43 pm
Making information graphics these days often requires scraping data from web sites, and Ruby is currently my goto language for most scraping tasks. The process of building a web scraper often involves...
International Journalism Festival 15 Apr 2011 | 09:00 pm
I spoke this afternoon at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, about the interactive graphics and data visualizations we produce at The New York Times. Here’s the list of the inter...
