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Typefaces of Singapore Newspaper Nameplates
Here’s a list of the nameplates of Singapore’s english newspapers and what typefaces they use. I’ve also included popular contemporary references that also use the same typeface, maybe the choice of usage says something about the paper? Typeface: Big Caslon … Continue reading
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FOUND: Visual Thinking and Thoughts
This was how Peter Ong explained visual thinking in a 1994 AMIC paper where he also championed the importance of packaging and design so that newspapers stayed relevant to readers. The way to do so is to be, what I … Continue reading
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FOUND: A Short History of Newspaper Design
In this 1987 Asian Media Information and Communication paper that I found via Googling, Peter Ong, a former regional editor of the Society of Newspaper Design, provides a short history of newspaper design. A former editor in The Straits Times … Continue reading
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Explaining the Budget 2009
Lots of of numbers and something for everyone, the Budget 2009 announcement yesterday was a great opportunity for the use of information graphics — so which local English paper did it best? Most engaging concept: The New Paper You have … Continue reading
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Vote for your fave My Paper Cover
my paper, a free paper that touts itself as Singapore’s first and only billingual paper, is celebrating its first anniversary and is holding a contest for readers to pick their favourite covers. This cover (right), in particular, struck me as … Continue reading
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Graphics are for the less educated?
The New Paper (TNP), a tabloid paper, uses a lot more graphics in its stories than most of the other local papers. One reason I can think of is that graphics are seen as tools to present data in a … Continue reading
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