Ex-Newsroom: Financial Times Deutschland
Kleiner Nachtrag zu den Newspaper Downfall-Fotos vor ein paar Tagen: Hier ein paar Fotos aus dem ehemaligen Newsroom der Financial Times Deutschland von Peter Raffelt: „Gestern haben die Kollegen der Gruner+Jahr IT begonnen, die Computer für die Einlagerung vorzubereiten. Hier ein paar aktuelle Fotografien aus dem ehemaligen Newsroom der Financial Times Deutschland.“
Newsroom (Danke Peter!)
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Newspaper Downfall Photography
Is this a Headline? Is this just Fantasy? Printed on Paper, this is Newspaper-Hilarity…
Newspaper remade with Tangerines
Making Of a Newspaper, 1940
Dead Wood from Newspapers made into a Lamp
Dead Wood made from Paper
Newspaper Downfall-Photography
Großartige Fotoserie von Will Steacy über die schweren Zeiten des Philadelphia Inquirer, der 2009 Bankrott anmeldete und aus einem riesigen Zeitungs-Komplex namens Tower of Truth in ein einziges Stockwerk in einem Bürogebäude umziehen musste. Von Wired:
The extreme downsizing of the Philadelphia Inquirer is a stand-in for what we know has been happening to newspapers across the country for the last decade. Since its bankruptcy filing in 2009 it has moved from the 526,000-square-foot Tower of Truth to a single floor in an office building.
Photographer Will Steacy has been documenting these financially difficult years for the paper, giving a unique perspective on the national downsizing and closures that are easily dismissed as just numbers.
“I wanted to create a portrait that showed the reality,” says Steacy, whose father worked at the Inquirer for 29 years.
Philly Inquirer’s Hard Years Are Microcosm of Newspapers’ Long Goodbye
Is this a Headline? Is this just Fantasy? Printed on Paper, this is Newspaper-Hilarity…
I’m just a Print-Boy, I need some Headline-Fun… (Print-Journalist-Chorus: And when our Business-Modell blows, doesn’t really matter to me… to me.)
The Ulster Gazette’s deputy editor Richard Burden is the man responsible for that outstanding bit of glam rock pastiche.
“I just always liked to do that type of headline. If there’s a film, a song, a lyric – anything that springs to mind and it lends itself, you’ll try to fit the words in round it,” he says.
But why choose Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody? Is it some deep and meaningful commentary on Danny Kennedy’s plans for our rail network? “They’re my favourite all time band, so it was an obvious thing for me.
Newspaper remade with Tangerines
Tolle Anzeige für einen japanischen Früchtebauern, die zusammen mit einer Tageszeitung aus Shizuoka eine komplette Seite mit Mandarinen nachgebaut haben. Dazu haben sie die Früchte komplett auseinandergenommen, alle Bestandteile verwendet und einzelne Worte aus aus den Saftschläuchen nachgebaut. Ein Mandarinen-Layout. Toll!
Tangerines, satsuma oranges, mandarin oranges, cuties – it seems everyone has their own name for it. And in Japan, the Mikan – everyone’s favorite fruit – is everywhere. So when a local newspaper in Shizuoka decided to run their own ad, they teamed up with Mikabi Mikan, a well-known local producer of the fruit, to take advantage of the concept of being “everywhere.”
Without relying on digital manipulation they meticulously peeled and dissected several mikans, using everything from the skin, pulp and juice to recreate an entire front page newspaper.
Mikan Newspaper | an epic ad for oranges
Bonuslyrics: The Flaming Lips – She don’t use Jelly: „I know who a girl who reminds me of Cher, she’s always changing the color of her hair, she don’t use nothing that you buy at the store, she likes her hair to be real orange – she uses tangerines, tangerines…“
Bad Journalism in Back To The Future
Netter Spaß vom NY Magazine: Back to the Future’s Terrible Newspaper. (via The Verge)
The Complete Toaster From Hell
Youtube Direktaliens, via Gawker
Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich den fantastisch-absurd-lustigen Clip mit einer Dame, die einen satanischen Toaster aus der Hölle besaß (der immer noch super Toast machte!) – jetzt hat Boyd Matson, der Produzent der Story damals (über Boulevard-Schmierblätter und ihre abgedrehtesten Geschichten), das komplette Segment online gestellt:
The devil toaster was part of a story I did on supermarket tabloids. It also included an interview with a man saved from an icy lake by his Howdy Doody dummy, and an interview with a woman who had sex with aliens for several years. Here’s the complete story.
The Clockwork Orange Times
Vor drei Jahren hat das Blog Kubrickonia Scans der Zeitung gepostet, die damals zum Release von „Clockwork Orange“ verteilt wurden. Kubrick wäre heute übrigens 84 Jahre alt geworden. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
In 1972 to support the wide release of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE this tabloid sized herald was given away free in US cinemas. It featured 8 pages of photos, Philip Castle’s illustrations and an assortment of press cuttings pertaining to the films pre-Christmas 1971 limited release. Space was provided at the bottom of the front cover to enable each cinema to publicise show times etc. This particular copy came from the Cleveland area.
Inside the New York Times’ Lively Morgue
Vimeo Direktmorgue, via Petapixel
Vor einer Weile hatte ich über das offizielle Tumblelog des Fotoarchivs der New York Times gebloggt und Tumblr hat jetzt ein schickes Video dazu gedreht.
Der Clip ist Teil von Tumblrs neuer Storyboard-Seite: “Storyboard is a regular collection of features highlighting talented creators and their work, as found within and around the massively diverse Tumblr community. Produced by the Department of Editorial, these stories are told with words, pictures, video, music, charts, animation, or any other voice these creators choose to speak with.”
The Occupied Times – Behind the Scenes of Londons Protest Newspaper
Schönes Posting auf Creative Review über die Zeitung zu Occupy London. Im Oktober hatten sie schonmal ein Posting, damals vor allem über die Typo und das Layout von Lazaros Kakoulidis und Tzortzis Rallis. Der Font für die Headlines heisst übrigens Bastard. Sehr schön! Die Website der Occupied Times gibt’s hier und da gibt’s alle Ausgaben als PDF.
While the designers recognised that the paper needed to represent Occupy London in print, they were keen to design something that would be accessible to people who weren’t necessarily familiar with the movement. Too many protest graphics, says Rallis, are designed to talk only to those already involved in political movements. Equally, a definitive identity, coupled with well designed communications material, gives a movement added authority and weight.
“Protest collectives are often limited in terms of their communications,” says Rallis, “and in the mainstream media they are often presented incorrectly, even as terrorists in some cases. But graphic design is a way to make people realise that these movements are not like that, that you can present the cause in a better way and make it more approachable to different people.”
Making Of a Newspaper, 1940
(Youtube Direktnews, via Brainpickings)
„There’s a real thrill in seeing your own byline over a story when it’s in print“. Nach dem Klick noch ein Clip über das Making Of Books, 1950.
Biofuel made from Newspapers
Wissenschaftler der Tulane Uni in New Orleans haben ein Bakterium entdeckt, das Butanol direkt aus Cellulose produzieren kann. Treibstoff aus alten Zeitungen, wusste ich’s doch, dass die Teile noch zu irgendwas gut sind.
Here’s one way that old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed “TU-103,” that can use paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that can serve as a substitute for gasoline. They are currently experimenting with old editions of the Times Picayune newspaper with great success.
TU-103 is the first bacterial strain from nature that produces butanol directly from cellulose, an organic compound.“Cellulose is found in all green plants, and is the most abundant organic material on earth, and converting it into butanol is the dream of many,” said Harshad Velankar, a postdoctoral fellow in David Mullin’s lab in Tulane’s Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. “In the United States alone, at least 323 million tons of cellulosic materials that could be used to produce butanol are thrown out each year.”
Mullin’s lab first identified TU-103 in animal droppings, cultivated it and developed a method for using it to produce butanol. A patent is pending on the process.
Cars Could Run on Recycled Newspaper, Tulane Scientists Say (via /.)
Shop-Interieur made from 1800 New York Times’
Aesop, die irgendwelches Zeugs für die Haut verkaufen, haben in der Grand Central Station einen Shop aufgebaut, dessen Interieur aus 1800 Ausgaben der New York Times besteht. Schöne Idee!
The Aesop kiosk is made of roughly 1,800 torn copies of the New York Times. Laid flat, piled up one on top of the other, and held together by a wooden frame, they create little display stands for Aesop’s assorted body scrubs and facial hydrating creams.
Aesop’s New Kiosk, Made From 1,800 Copies Of The New York Times (via Gizmo)
New York Times Timelapse
(Youtube Direkttimes, via Nils)
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira hat aus Versehen einen Cron-Job laufen lassen, der ihm von September 2010 bis Juli 2011 12.000 Screenshots der NYTimes machte. Die hat er nun zu einem Timelapse-Video zusammengeschnitten: „Working on this video was fascinating because the past year was filled with dramatic events (from the Chilean miners [0:39] to the Arab Spring [3:38] and the Japanse Tsunami [4:54]) that I got to watch unfold time and time again. Watch out for them in the video; I took special care to slow down certain time periods.“
New York Times-Candle smells like Dead Wood
Eine Kerze, die wie frisch gedruckte Zeitungen riecht. Ich habe ja lange bei einer Tageszeitung gearbeitet und weiß ziemlich genau, wie das riecht. Ich würde mir das Ding jedenfalls nicht in die Bude stellen. Als Kommentar auf die Zukunftsaussichten von Print ist das nun umgesetzte Konzept des verstorbenen Designers Tobias Wong allerdings ziemlich grandios.
The designer-artist Tobias Wong, who passed away in 2010, thought of himself, more than anything, as an observer. […] One of his last concepts was The New York Times candle. Within the current fascination with scents and, especially, experimental scents, Wong proposed producing a candle with the fragrance of newsprint inspired by The New York Times, an institution he greatly admired and with which he had a longstanding relationship. This project, though in progress, was never actualized.
Various Projects and Josée Lepage of Bondtoo were close collaborators and friends of Wong’s. We have realized his Times of New York candle in a limited editon of 1000.
The scent of the candle is newsy, with hints of guaiacwood, cedar, musk, spice, with “a powdery note and velvet nuance,” meant to mimic the aroma of black ink on newsprint.
Tobias Wong’s The Times of New York candle (via Gizmo)
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Library Perfume
Kids remix the Washington Post
Die Kinder von Angestellten der Washington Post haben die Titelseite der Zeitung geremixt und der- oder diejenige, der oder die die rechte Version mit „Random Story hits paper“ gemacht hat, wird einmal einen Nobelpreis gewinnen, den Weltfrieden erreichen und als erster Mensch mit Außerirdischen reden. Jede Wette.
Children of Post employees visited the newsroom and decided they could draw a better front page than their parents could create. Here are their front page news stories.
Take your kids to work day at the Washington Post (via IZReloaded)
