NEWS
IED attacks
IED attacks on civilians, coalition and Afghan troops
16,000 improvised explosive devices are recorded in the Afghanistan war logs, rising from 308 in 2004 to 7,155 in 2009.
Click the map to take you to the Guardian page. Then click start on the map, or drag the date along the bar, to see where and who they hit over these five years.
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The Guardian, World Cup 2010 Twitter replay original Designs.
Personally I’m still not convinced about this Twitter replay. I’m not on Twtiter as I find It all a bit self obsessed, and I hate even saying or hearing the word.
My point is I love football and I would much prefer to watch the game than to watch bubbles smash my computer.
Sadly I was away when the final designs for this were finished, and because of that a lot of what alot of what I did wasn’t used. The style of the bubbles are all that remains, and some other little bits.
I’ll add a bit more in the 2010 archive.
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The work I did for The Guardian’s election coverage has been launched. I’ll write more later. Click below to check it out.
Guardian swingometer
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This graphic shows Obamas budget compares George Bush’s last one. % change, 2009 comapred to 2011 spending estimates
http://www.guardian.co.uk / datablog/ obama budget 2011
Obama's 2011 budget
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It was the year Barack Obama took office, Britain entered recession, MPs’ expenses were exposed to public scrutiny, Iranians protested after a flawed presidential election, Michael Jackson died and the Copenhagen climate summit ended in recriminations and a flawed deal.
Alastair Dant and myself worked on this for the Guardian. Nice to do anything full screen. Each thumbnail is a day the biggest story of that day, Nice Idea and works well apart from I did not do the logo in the top right….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/dec/24/end-of-year-review
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‘PROGECT UNICORN’ AKA The Guardian’s IPhone application.
BREIF: To produce a wide range of icons for the Guardians app, everything from breaking news to books and obituaries.
ANALYSIS: Some subjects were more difficult illustrate than others, the size was an issue too 29px x 29px is quite tight. I also would have liked to have had a bit more time to work on them, maybe a day or so, sadly we work to daily deadlines and graphics for the newspaper/web have priority.
So I came up with over 100 icon variations, a few I wasn’t at all happy with but managed to make it though.
On reflection I would like to re-work a few of them, maybe when the first update is out I will had the chance to get them done.
My personal favorite is the microchip and the one I think is horrendous and should never been seen or used is the one that looks like buildings.
Personally the bar chart and line chart are better for the business icon – they are infinitely better at illustrating the business section.
A great project to work on, a little more tweaking time would have been nice.
Application release date is December 15th, or so I’ve been told.
Guardian Iphone application icons
Guardian Iphone application icons
Guardian Iphone application icons
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Graphic for the Guardian
Graphic I did for the Guardian, Cumulative total of gilt purchases by the Bank of England’s masset purchase scheme
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