Stumbled upon a site called Designing The News while browsing Bryan Veloso’s blog. The author plays around with typography and similar visual elements to enhance “news” (aka text) and give it a visual flair.

His “Week of the Guardian” series is particularly interesting. I have special interest in the following entries:

“Wednesday”

“Thursday”

“Friday”

The rest of the series can be found below:

• Monday – A typographic and layout based piece previewing the contents of the paper as ingredients.
• Tuesday – A list of headlines contained in the paper illustrated with references to the article or subject.
• Wednesday – A polar graph inspired layout mapping the stories and categories on colour coded concentric circles.
• Thursday – A content map showing the relationships between information inside of a circular container.
• Friday – A text heavy piece highlighting the sheer amount of information contained within in the paper.
• Saturday – A grid based typographic piece, showing patterns and author relationships through the paper.

For more, head over to Designing In The News

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