News & Events
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We’re busy: send us your CV!
Calling all talented designers and genius developers out there: we’re luckily finding ourselves very busy over the coming months and would love to hear from any available people who’d like to work with us. We’re in need of both freelance designers and coders (HTML5/CSS3/Javascript etc), so if you’re interested, please send us your glowing CV by emailing me (Rachel) via our contact page. No agencies please. Spread the word!!!
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The Times iPad graphics demo
We’ve finally got round to making a demo video of some of the iPad graphics we’ve been creating for The Times (useful, since many of you are iPad-less and the graphics are no longer accessible after 7 days regardless). So here they are in action…
Read more about them on our project page: The Times iPad infographics
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Health of England for Times iPad app
Hot on the heels of our World Cup and Wall of Debt graphics for The Times iPad app, this ‘Health Profile of England’ infographic features in today’s issue. Displaying public health information divided into regions, the graphic illustrates the distinct North/South health divide in England using data collected by the Department of Health.
32 ‘health wheels’ distil different health indicators across nine regions. The wheels act as barometers for the health of each region, and provide users with an intuitive way of scanning through all the indicators. A map of England communicates the national perspective in response to the wheel, with a ‘traffic light’ colour code identifying which regions score ‘better than’, ‘worse than’ or ‘average’ compared to the national mean. For the regional view, segments on the wheel are colour coded according to the performance of each indicator.
The above graphic displays the performance of each region of England for Tooth Decay at age 5 against the national average of 1.5. The best scoring region is the West Midlands with an average of 1 decayed/lost tooth.
Tooth decay in London is worse than average (1.7 lost/decayed teeth compared with 1.5 national average). The wheel also shows how London has the most mixed picture of all the regions, scoring well in indicators of life expectancy and causes of death, but poorly in community indicators such as deprivation and violent crime.
The North East is worse than average (2 lost/decayed teeth compared with 1.5 national average – the lowest score of all regions). The wheel illustrates the comparatively poor performance of the region across all indicators, with only 5 scoring better than average.
The figure for South East is better than average (1.1 lost/decayed teeth compared with 1.5 national average), with a comparatively good performance of the region across all indicators, with only 1 scoring worse than average.
If you have access to an iPad and The Times app, the graphic lives with a story called “Major Shift planned for NHS treatment” in the News section (accessible from the front page). The graphic will also run tomorrow and in future editions to accompany any relevant stories.
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The Times iPad World Cup planner
We’re lucky enough to have been working with The Times to create their interactive World Cup planner that launched this week. A wall-chart style fixture and results schedule meets Panini sticker album (with photos and live stats of all 736 players), the graphic will live on The Times’ iPad app and thetimes.co.uk for the duration of the tournament.
Having tortuously watched England in World Cups since Spain ’82, I’m hoping that, just maybe, we might make the semis again this year. I think if my 16-year old self could’ve worked on this back at Italia ’90 he’d have thought it was pretty cool. Come on England!
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Walk the High Line
Back in May I was lucky enough to take a trip to New York, something I’d been meaning to do for years but the opportunity never arose. The Big Apple is now officially at the top of my favourite city list, and it’s easy to see why. One of the things I enjoyed while I was there, was strolling through the High Line, a new 1.5 mile public park built on a disused train line that stretches above the Meatpacking District and houses 210 species of perennials, grasses, shrubs and trees. So I was really pleased to hear that Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architectural firm behind the parks creation, have won a D&AD award in the Environmental Design category. Bravo!
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Applied Works in print
We’re very pleased to have received two books featuring our work recently. The first, ‘The Graphic Design Exercise Book’ by Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser (below), published by Rotovision, includes work for Save the Children, Spiritualized, Friends Reunited, Miguel Mera, Giles Revell and Dealerward.
The second is ‘Motion Graphic Design – Applied History and Aesthetics’ by Jon Krasner and published by Focal Press, which features our title sequence for Amulet Films’ short film ‘Moth’ and one from the archives – my first project after leaving college in 1997, a title sequence for ice hockey series ‘Inferno’ (below).
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Dealerward van hits the streets
Julia at Dealerward has sent over pictures of the freshly branded Dealerward van. Great to see it finished, we think it looks great.
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iPad graphics for The Times
There’s been a real buzz in the Applied Works studio of late, aside from the excitement surrounding Rob’s pending nuptials to Lidia, we’ve been working closely with The Times to develop a number of interactive info graphics for both their iPad app which launched today, and their new website launched earlier this week.
To coincide with the UK release of Sex and the City 2, The Times iPad edition features an article about famous shoe designer Manolo Blahnik (fans of the show will be aware of Carrie’s obsession with ‘Manolo’s’). To accompany the piece we built an interactive timeline (above) which maps the history of the designer’s career – users can use the touch screen to scroll through key dates, facts, and slideshows.
For a political feature appearing on the new website (www.thetimes.co.uk), we have created a graphic illustrating the location of key parliamentary buildings where the country’s government departments are situated. Presented in birds eye view, each Westminister location is indicated by a labeled hotspot that users can click to instigate digestible facts on all cabinet ministers in office.
Click here to view the interactive guide (you’ll need to register).
Watch this space for more interesting iPad graphics, and of course pictures from Rob’s big day!
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TfL: video & social networking
Our video for Transport for London’s careers department has just gone public, and can now be found on TfL Careers’ Linkedin page.
From the Linkedin page you can also access some social networking tools we’ve developed, including a Facebook app and Twitter page. These tools allow potential candidates to follow the latest job vacancies, which are automatically updated via their preferred social network.
You can read more about our work on TfL Careers’ communications strategy, including the video, on our TfL project page.
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Designer Breakfasts
This morning I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Franco Bonadio at the ‘Designer Breakfasts’ seminar held at BBH, Kingly Street. Franco, CEO and creative director of Identica, gave his refreshing and honest account of running a design consultancy. I liked his ‘fast/slow’ topic referring to a technique he learned at life drawing classes – spend too long over something and invariably the result is overworked and distorted. Give yourself limited time and anything can happen, sometimes disastrous, but often spontaneous, interesting and worth talking about.
All in all, a good way to spend a morning. I highly recommend it.
Image ©merceblanco (Flickr)