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宜しく お願い します. [ Please!]


(It's been several days since it happened to Japan, but it did not happen. The use of catastrophe by day has been different than previous. We have always struck by the immediate visual feedback of the designers in this type of situation. But this time we wanted to know who thought (and felt) a design professional who is very close to the disaster. So we asked our Japanese Kohji Shiiki columnist to write within the energy constraints that are imposed in Tokyo on this solidarity and visual input. We show what I was doing a group of English designers , who recommended Rodolfo Fernandez Alvarez, Chillart columnist, sensitive to this kind of solidarity demonstration)

(For Kohji Shiiki) I've seen what people are doing Designers for Japan. I think terrific reflect solidarity through designs. No doubt that is the tool that we use. But I would like this to connect to companies or groups with purchasing power to provide concrete help to the victims of the earthquake.

I was much struck by some comments left at the site of GRAFFIC. Any country whatever it is in need of financial assistance to a disaster. Perhaps in countries such as Japan joins money faster and probably more but it's absurd who say that Japan does not need such aid be a rich country.
What I can say is that this country is in economic crisis tweakers. Times have changed that Japan's bubble era that ended back in the mid 90s, just as it would take another disaster that was the Kobe earthquake.

think it would be interesting to think about how to generate donations through the design, for example through global organizations like the Red Cross. Personally I have given my small donation through it.

As everyone knows, there are hundreds of thousands of victims hit by this disaster and some who are saved were due to lack of essential materials, as the weather is still very cold in the Northeast and is said to be in the affected areas is a serious problem to transport relief materials.

In Tokyo, the serious energy problem remains the city. The sensible thing is to consume as little electricity as possible, because it is obvious that seriously affects the economy of the country. Anecdotally, one driver told the radio yesterday: "If Tokyo is not right, the whole country is not right and we can not get out of this pit."
And I think he is right. Without going too far, the magazine where laburo is all screwed. Speaking with a colleague who works in the Yomiuri newspaper in English, I said there is not enough paper to print the newspaper in the coming weeks.

Returning to the work of the designer, as I said earlier, I found a website where graphic designers with posters promoting the energy problem. The designs are downloadable to print and stick on the walls. In short, the designer has the virtue of being able to create, promote or terminate messages to specific issues.
I think that is what you need to do in situations like those experienced in these latitudes. Not rule out that the graphic designer to achieve an emotional support, but for such assistance are also musicians and comedians, to name a few. For
More posters Japanese Chillart enters.

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Last week for Virgin


graphic designer, advertising and educational Candelmi Adrian tells us that this is the last week of registration for Virgin teaching space (with Esteban Ibarra, graphic designer and teacher), which begins in April . "There's still time to sign up to our classrooms VIRGIN. A series of workshops articulated the theory and practice. Created for both professional design, creativity and communication, who want to deepen their training, and for those interested in different way to enter the world of design and visual communication, "he says, with more detail.
So far the workshops have to do with Graphic Design - Identity - Typography - Editorial - Character Design - Art Toy - Illustration - Creativity - Audiovisual - Web - Graphic Production - Stained Glass - 3D Paper and more ... (This is where the Norbi can show your side "more virginal" developed in our part of all activities that convene outside. And bringing all their friends and guests to celebrate true encounters " of worship "where the pleasure (for good design, creativity, experimentation and transgression) is not sin")
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Last time: Chin, chin, Sheen


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Today, the newspaper Tiempo Argentino, El Norbi published a double page with the recent history of Charlie Sheen. Those 35 days of chaos, women and alcohol, they deserved a visual reminder that exceed the typical timeline that appeared in newspapers throughout the world. Marcelo Fernandez Bitar and Mavy Sosa, we worked in this crap shoot of the new journal, which has no trouble experiencing. WOW people already has asked to make a new Infocoleccionable, taking into account the reactions of Facebook.
A computer graphics that for the first time, will be published in a vertical, over two full pages. It is the second time the news story is only one computer graphics. So today here's to experimentation. Sheen toast today. Chin, chin, Sheen.

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Tsunami in Japan: From analog to digital to analog and back to Japan


(By Carlos Gamez Kindelan) These data refer to the period from the day of the earthquake, Friday March 3 to Sunday 5. I chose 14 / 2 18 different graphs of these media . This type of analysis is something I like to do from a young age. It is often enlightening in some sense and you always learn.

A simple Google search was showing me some charts, others such as nytimes.com for example, tracked by self-interest (something I do daily). What we can read these numbers? The news that we call 'breaking news' still important from the point of view of graphics. And since we only talk online territory, the importance is twofold. On the one hand, it shows that some media and do not hesitate to post your graphics on the Internet but are the same versions for print editions. This is what happens in most cases, on the other hand, one sees that more importantly the holder online chart that the very information covered in the chart. This I think only suggests that, in some cases a higher value chart positioning in the Google search engine to the chart itself. The sooner you post the url of your chart more likely to "succeed" in the race to be first on the website and get hits. This is not something new or I have invented myself. Just so, it may be that with some slight but true. Everyone knows that what it takes to make a static graphic or an interactive video. Prioritizing speed Internet there have plump graphics and new formats (eg so fashionable 'Towergraphics'). Never saw so many graphics on the web, especially those dealing with their own web, social networks, mobile devices and Apple iPad. These are, in general, news of those who speak the "new graphics" we see on the web. Why go out to document, interview and obtain information? Because Google and Twitter for good or ill give you all this. The new journalists know and know perfectly these new avenues of information and just get up from his seat rather than to go to a meeting or a coffee. With so much information flowing through the network is the problem of intoxication. It is very difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff and contrast sources is something for which there is little time, then copied the piece. But in addition to copy or obtain information from traditional means rigorous, sources in many cases are graphic or news published by companies away from journalistic rigor with which the quality of this work leaves much to be desired. We are all taught in schools of communication that were never rush an excuse to do wrong your work, to trust a misspelling or just because the first information that will come to hand. For all that is changing. Journalism, now, is called technology. And this must be taken into account.

Moreover you can also see computer graphics professionals still maintaining their way of work, professionalism and quality in day to day because they know how to avoid all this noise. They are experienced professionals, hardware work, school writers who have adapted to changes without changing their professionalism. And we also see media companies who support these professionals. Where do the best graphics that we see today? Of course these profiles.

This is not to say that everything we see on the web has to go directly to the trash. We also see very good examples and a boom in testing as never seen before on the Internet. But if all our work we rely on speed always closer to the static and interactive as analog and digital and see that 18 papers on the disaster in Japan, only 3 are interactive. After a long way to go and that's good for everybody.