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Infographic from El Universal from Mexico |
This is an interesting blog post about the challenges of creating breaking news infographics. It is an art form, but unique in that the illustrator has very little time to play with the design and process. From the Visual Journalism blog post…
I have been through as many media as I could find, to see what the current state of Breaking News Infographic is. People often talk about this category as an lost artform – with dataviz taking over in the newsrooms, online-discussions and conferences. And yes – Breaking news isn’t trendy anymore (if it ever was?). It’s hard to innovate and experiment with new visualization-tools, when you know you have only a few hours before deadline. You never have the time or ressources you need. All that is part of the art – deliver while it’s hot. Like a glassblower you’ll blow life into your material, while it’s molten and constantly changing.
Infographics of the raid on Abbottabad come from:
- The Clarin in Argentina
- The Washington Post
- The Chicago Tribune
- The New York Times
- The Aamulehti in Finland
- UOL from Brazil
- Toronto Star
- The Independent from the U.K.
- The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
- Publico from Spain
- and many others
The Blog Post & Infographics: http://goo.gl/CpKuf