A lengthy article on why programatic music notation, especially that output from Finale, is less-than-perfect. Good stuff, especially if you’re into typography (as this is basically musical type). Visit site »
The podcast is now available for one of my favorite sessions at this year’s SXSWi. Follow along with the slides as you listen.
I made a couple of comments at the end of the session, and was surprised to find out, when I listened to it back, that I’m actually not completely appalled by the sound of my voice.
I now dread hearing the podcast of my own panel that much less. Visit site »
The contingent of web standards-oriented designers and developers looking to add Flash to their bag of tricks without compromising their ideals is growing. w00t. Visit site »
Another beautiful piece of interactive journalism and multimedia storytelling from The Journal-World. This one was designed by Nathan Borror with assistance from Christian Metts and direction from David Ryan.
This is an early attempt at something we’ve been talking about for a while, but are just starting to really do. That is, to take a story and tell it the way it wants to be told. Wether that’s video, audio, text, photos, infographics, or anything else — the important thing is the story. This is in contrast to most newspaper companies, who still hold text-based pieces as the cornerstone.
Take a look around. You’ll find that many sites are doing videos and photos and such — but rarely are they first-class citizens. Usually it’s a basic text-based story layout with a few additional bits of multimedia in a sidebar somewhere. We don’t want to do that (at least not exclusively). If the best way to tell a story is through a video with some supporting text, then we want to use video with some supporting text. We don’t want the fact that we’re (historically) a newspaper company to keep us from telling stories the way they’re best told.
Besides the “mediums besides text can be first-class” approach, this is also an example of taking a big, multi-part (even multi-day, in print) piece and giving it an art-directed design all it’s own online. You’re going to see a lot more of this from us in the future.
And besides that, it’s yet another sneak preview of the design direction for the new LJWorld.com, which should launch this month. Check out the tight 16-column grid! Visit site »