We produce and access vast amounts of information every day. Through the information networks we inhale ultra-fast cycles of news reporting that often focus on what’s happening “right now” but don’t always allow for the background information to be explored giving the reader more context and meaning. Also consider how our narrow, echo chamber, social media bubbles throw ‘fake news’ reports and clickbait nonsense articles at us with accelerating multiplicity, leaving many of us overloaded, disillusioned and even distrustful of media.

Did the News finally break?

For this brief you are asked to create a feature article that fills a large double page spread, 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 story must have a political, economical, social or environmental angle. This story mustn’t be breaking news but something that has been an issue for some time. What is important is that the story is backed up by a study that contains a dataset.