Craig Grannell quizzes the industry’s finest about the web design and development trends that will occur over the coming 12 months and that you need to be mindful of 2012 looks set to be an interesting year. The economic fallout continues to batter industries worldwide, seemingly with no end in sight; and many governments are doing their best to censor the internet, to deny citizens basic rights or prop up ailing media companies. (via 15 top web design and development trends for 2012 | Feature | .net magazine)
Creative director and motion graphic artist Angie Taylor (@theangietaylor) shows how to use Photoshop and Adobe After Effects for kinetic typography - combining text and motion to express ideas in the form of animation
In this useful and practical tutorial you’ll learn valuable techniques you’ll want to use over and over again in your Photoshop and After Effects work. Please watch the final movie below to see some of the techniques covered. This is an experimental, art project – created in response to the song, That Day by artist, Richard Walker. (via Kinetic typography techniques with After Effects | Tutorial | .net magazine)
This is an excellent example of what Jay Rosen calls an “explainer” it is also a great example of collaborative Journalism as it arises out of the joint resources of the Climate Desk partners who have come together to explore the issue of climate change. It also shows how storify can be used very effectively and in a very focused way.
Kinetic Typography Tutorial (by JesseRosten)
Club Iraq (by wreckandsalvage)
Dance Party in Iraq (by MasterFX2000)
Yet a year after the Arab Spring, Carvin remains a rare breed. More journalists are using Twitter to find stories and connect with sources, but Carvin says few use it as he does. He sometimes writes for NPR’s website, but his Twitter activity rarely yields full articles. Instead, the nonstop chatter among his networked community serves as both process and product. “It’s not that I’m just using Twitter and integrating other forms of journalism,” he says. “It’s that I see Twitter as the newsroom where I spend my time.” (via Current.org | Andy Carvin, virtual correspondent, 2012)
GLEE- Army “Say a Little Prayer” (by TheAmericanJester)
