Posts Tagged ‘news’

Typography makes the news

4, Jan 2009

When something serious happens in the news…
News website headlines get big.
Maybe they think they’re still newspapers. Or they need to make words bigger to remind us how serious it all is.
Let’s look at some examples of how big letters add gravitas:
Israeli troops push deep into Gaza
Earthquake strikes Indonesia
Aliens land in Cotswolds
Lily Allen’s bra kidnapped by [...]

The news is broken.

3, Sep 2008

Can someone please ban the phrase ‘credit crunch’? I’m thoroughly sick of hearing it. The news these days seems to get marketed and dumbed down to the extent that it seems we can’t be told anything unless it is phrased using catchy alliteration or less syllables that the title of a Steven Seagal film. Credit [...]

All the news is new and approved

9, May 2008

I get to see the news every so often, not that often. The TV news is CNN or BBC World, so it’s quite US-centric, or in the case of BBC World a procession of B-team news readers and dull-as-ditchwater business reports I swear not a soul watches, interspersed with adverts for Rolex watches and how nice [...]


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