August 27, 2012 on Information Graphics, Multimedia
Here’s some of what the WaPo team put together for the London Olympics:
The definition of perfection
I designed this piece about how gymnastics scoring worked. Wilson Andrews developed it and edited/animated the videos, and Bonnie Berkowitz did the writing.
Profiles in Speed
This six-part series we developed in the run-up to the Olympics featured greats like Missy Franklin, Michael Phelps and Carmelita Jeter. Videos, infographics, and awesome articles. I especially love the segment on technology.
Are you over the hill for Olympic sports?
As part of the Profiles in Speed series, I developed this graphic which lets you see where you fit into the Olympic age spectrum. Flowing Data wrote about it here.
Four more pieces after the jump! »
Posted by Kat Downs on Monday, August 27, 2012 at 12:09 am
Tags: alberto cuadra, bonnie berkowitz, Design and infographics, fun, graphics, interactive, katie park, olympics, sisi wei, sohail al-jamea, sports, washingtonpost.com, wilson andrews, Work
September 19, 2011 on Information Graphics
To create this graphic about exercises you can do at the office, the entire graphics department of the Post got together twice a day to do the exercises. It was a hilarious group activity — we attracted a lot of stares from passersby in the newsroom. I really enjoyed jumping around a little bit in the middle of the day to get the blood pumping.
The graphic was a fun collaboration between Laura Stanton, who illustrated many of the department members, Sohail Al-Jamea, who created the animations, Bonnie Berkowitz, who was our exercise leader and researched and wrote all the text and conducted the survey, and me — I helped design and build the interactive and set up the videos and polls.
So far we have had a lot of people voting — about 1,700 for the first exercise. It’s fun to see how people have responded to each exercise, and we’re hoping it is promoting engagement with the piece.
Posted by Kat Downs on Monday, September 19, 2011 at 11:51 am
Tags: exercise, games, health, illustration, interactive, laura stanton, Multimedia, polls, sohail al-jamea, video, voting