Dealing With Images for the Press
When I first started out in journalism, dealing with images was very simple. I simply asked the source – whether it was a picture agency, photographer or press office – for a transparency or photograph which I would job bag with the written copy. Digital images now mean that all I have to do is put the jpeg or tiff file into a right folder on the company server for the design department. Unfortunately, too often, the digital images that are supplied... [Read More...]
Pay Walls May Work…One Day
Wall Street Journal has a pay wall Predictions from futurologists way back in the early nineties about the World Wide Web suggested that the existing printing presses would probably be the last ones that the publishing industry would need to invest in. They rubbed their hands with exhilaration at the prospect of increasing their readership and revenues without having to increase their costs at the margin by printing extra editions in the future. It... [Read More...]
More Than Just A Contents Page
E&T Contents Page We often talk of printed content and printed pages, but how often do we as journalists, editors and designers question the fundamental design of a magazine contents page? It would appear that on the magazine I work on, E&T, the contents page is constantly being scrutinised internally. Take the example of the latest issue (pictured). This was a specially designed contents page by our chief designer, John Rooney, for current... [Read More...]
Ada Lovelace and Women in Engineering
The Institution of Engineering & Technology membership is overwhelmingly male – in fact, it is approximately 95% male – a fact that I don’t think we ought to be proud of. Its more evident, every time I have meetings, work or attend events at our London Home, Savoy Place on London’s embankment. As you ascend the ostentatious staircase to one of the upper levels, you find yourself inspecting a parade of framed pictures of past presidents... [Read More...]
