(Note: This is a somewhat longer version of the same story that originally appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of the RRJ – Ed) The local newscast in Victoria, B.C., looks much like any other local news broadcast. A handsome anchorman wearing a smart suit delivers news of the quest to find a young girl’s… Continue reading Pioneer Spirits
Category: Summer 2011
Pioneer Spirits
Note: This is a somewhat longer version of the same story that originally appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of the RRJ – Ed) The local newscast in Victoria, B.C., looks much like any other local news broadcast. A handsome anchorman wearing a smart suit delivers news of the quest to find a young girl’s… Continue reading Pioneer Spirits
War Torn
When my older brother and I were kids, around ages 10 and 6, we would gather with our friends by a small river on the other side of the fence of our grade school. When the sun went down we’d scour the neighbourhood, collecting empty aerosol cans and building small piles of them by the… Continue reading War Torn
How Designers Think
Innovation in Newspaper Design American newspapers have long been the paragon of newspaper design, but in the past decade many have “lapsed into a lethargy that’s made them homogenized, sanitized and deca einated,” said Mario Garcia, in a 1996 American Journalism Review article. Today many are shackled to a bottom-line mentality as a result of… Continue reading How Designers Think
How Designers Think
I stand next to Adrian Norris, The Globe andMail’s managing editor of design and presentation. Norris, with a cardboard cup of cafeteria coffee in hand, gives me a brief tour of his second home: the redesign room, a closet-like visual spectacle of an offi ce tucked in the corner of the third floor. It’s hidden… Continue reading How Designers Think