I just came back from Tokyo where I had a great dinner with some local friends. I remember I found it surprising that they kind of competed about who had the best metro line close to his or her place. As a tourist I usually took the metro on non-rush hours so I didn’t see the point in that. Now I understand:
Tokyo metro can get veery crowded in rush hours and photographer Michael Wolf documented it in a funny/sad series of pictures of people getting steamed and compressed at the same time.
Coming up with a solution for online newspapers is not an easy task and it requires both time and guts. Our advice to Spanish online press is that they have them made a liposuction (as a temporary solution we mean):
Here’s the full picture, with all the fat adhered to the news pieces:
We are big fans of Hans Rosling work. I first mentioned him five years ago (Spanish) when he was leading Gapminder, mixing statistics, data visualization, interaction design and storytelling. Now he’s a public figure doing amazing things just as this one:
When we saw BlackVostok, we immediately thought it was the best way to provide a digital identity to any destination in Castilla la Mancha. Our travelers don’t want to read about beautiful places, they want to see them, they want to have a sense of them before making up their minds and set to travel.
Sometimes an image speaks louder than 1000 words; when it comes to wonderful locations, this is definitely the case. And we think BlackVostok is a great tool to help convey that.
We were excited about Murdoch’s plans to Design a newspaper from scratch, all crafted for the iPad. New device, new patterns and perhaps new design, structure and consumption schemas. Well, not really.
