Tag Archives: Laris Karklis

Mapping the news: Libya and Japan

Information Graphics, Maps, Multimedia March 21, 2011 katdowns Leave a comment

The past several weeks have been full of foreign news, and we have been producing lots of graphics to explain what’s happening. I have worked on these two graphics, one about the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, and one that explains what is going on in Libya. For a full explanation of the process of creating the Japan graphic, visit the new Innovations blog at the WP (excerpted below): Friday morning, as news of the earthquake in Japan spread, we started pulling together an…

Path of a predator

Information Graphics July 25, 2010 katdowns Leave a comment

After a long week & weekend of wrapping up the Top Secret America project, we hit the ground running with a project that came out today about local teacher Kevin Ricks. A four-month Washington Post investigation of his career revealed a pattern of abuse that goes back to at least 1978 and has a trail of victims that spans the globe. Reporters Josh White, Jennifer Buske, Michael Chandler and Blaine Harden worked on the story, which was just a great piece of reporting. Go read…

The Battle of Wanat

Multimedia, Work October 5, 2009 katdowns Leave a comment

Yesterday we launched a multimedia narrative on the Battle of Wanat, one of the deadliest battles that have taken place in Afghanistan since the war began. I designed and developed this timeline in collaboration with Greg Jaffe, Liz Heron, Ben de la Cruz, Laris Karklis and several others. It combines video, audio, maps, documents and photography to tell the story of what took place on July 13, 2008, when Taliban fighters launched a major assault on a small U.S. Army outpost in Afghanistan, killing nine…

Recent Design and Development Work

Information Graphics, Work August 24, 2009 katdowns Leave a comment

I said I was going to publish some of my recent work, so here goes. All of this stuff has been done in the past several months and has been published on washingtonpost.com. I worked on this interactive graphic about North Korean prison camps last month. It explores the five major camps and goes into detail about camp 15. Laris Karklis did the maps, Blaine Harden wrote the text, and I did the design and build. In April, I worked with Amanda Zamora and Alexandra…

Five Years of Banter / What I’ve Been Working On

Design and infographics, Work May 21, 2009 katdowns Leave a comment

I was just poking around my old blog posts and realized that this blog is about to turn five years old on June 7. In honor of that milestone, I plan to completely redesign the blog and add some features. I’m also going to be posting some of my more recent work in the next few days/weeks. I realize my last post was more than a year and a half ago, and a lot has happened in the interim. About a year ago, I started…