Things we look forward to this fall: The annual workshop held by the Society of News Design kicks off in Cleveland, United States, in just two days! Apart from the general meeting of SND officers and board members, the workshop also includes free sessions for students, an iPad design

Here we are with the finished print component of our Olympics project, fresh from the printer’s. Like last time, we made a 52-page, standard size print supplement, which came out on the opening day of the Games. But this time we added a few different elements to the mix.  Click

Richest race of the world it was here. A poster for newspaper, part of the campaign for Dubai World Cup 2011

Finally I can breath at least for a week, today is the first day of Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2010 and I’m here holding the checkered flag!. At the same time an F1 infographic supplement -forty colorful pages- is published in Dubai. Take a look at some of them, which symbolize’

About three months of researching, planning and production; and a team of journalists, designers, illustrators, editors and translators involved, were needed to move the project forward. Here some samples of our final product.,  You can read more about it here: http://www.snd.org/2010

The most representative player of each team was chosen to illustrate the pages of the 32 participant countries. A combination of traditional and digital ilustration were used to develop the 48 pages of the World Cup 2010 infographics supplement.

Again we are “cooking” an special graphics with Al Bayan graphics team. I’m enjoying each project with them, and now, we are using extra tea for it!   Different types of tea which gave us a wonderful  scale of warm colors. You can do it at home.

1. Classic pencil sketch   2. Watercolor with tea, to get a texture and computer colored.

Al Bayan newspaper. Delicious project for Al Bayan newspaper, one of the most important paper for the arab readers in United Arab Emirates. Team job: 2 months. 36 pieces.

1. Visual conception for the arabic readers: right to left.   2. Arabic text and graphic edited according of the Emarat Al Youm’s infographic style book.   3. On the page, with all the layout elements.