Breaking The News
The Brief:
create an article that fills two double page spreads, for a publication that focuses on communicating a specific news back-story
to a readership. Data visualisation and diagrammatic display need to play a key role in explaining, clarifying complex matters to
a reader. The visualisations need to be integrated in an editorial design context. Strong layout skills and typographic excellence are essential.
The Outcome:
I found that the British Steel crisis is a very big and impactful contemporary piece of news in the UK and is an issue that is very personal to many families communities within the UK due to the huge amount of job losses. Due to this I found the topic very interesting and believed it had a lot of potential. The data I focused on was global steel production in tonnes, job losses within
the UK by location and numbers, and numbers employed compared to steel produced in the UK annually.
