What we do

by Matt Buck on 11th December 2009

Drawnalism - visual reporting for business and publications

Drawnalism makes drawing and visual communication to report your events and business messages. Below you will find examples of our work at conferences and public events. You can find a description of our business skills. Our recent clients include major media groups and blue-chip corporates. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your project needs.

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The interface with technology

by Matt Buck on 27th January 2010

At the heart of the Apple Computer iPad is one rather important thing – the way human beings interact with technology. On the whole, Drawnalism thinks that anything which brings a closer connection between our senses and what we can do with them through technology is worth investigating. (Yes, we watched Minority Report too.) We thought the following video was worth watching as well, mainly as an example of how touch control is going to offer us a rather better interface to technology. Especially, if you make things with your hands.

10/GUI from C. Miller at Vimeo.

If you are interested in a.nother article on the Apple machine, we think @psmith’s round up piece for Journalism.co.uk is as good as we have seen.

Updated: Monday Feb 1st. Drawnalist opinions of the launched object are largely positive. We like larger displays for supply of information and design, but like all new creative devices the iPad is going to need time to develop and show its strengths. We also look forward to a version with a sharp, pointy stick facility for those of us who like them. Yes, we are looking at you Wacom.

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#newsrw – Greg Hadfield of Cogapp

by Matt Buck on 18th January 2010

#newsrw@GregHadfieldNewsRewired – the event for those interested in making the news – had some breaking stuff all of its own last week.

During his panel session in front of more than 100 delegates, Greg Hadfield, one of the UK’s more conspicuously successful journalists and business people announced a change of job.

He explained his move from the Daily Telegraph to digital firm Cogapp as the result of a refusal to wait any longer for institutional journalism to catch up with the opportunities of digital.

Drawnalism taken at the conference. Drawnalism’s final post on the event will be posted later this week.

Updated 19th Jan 2010: Greg Hadfield has written for the Media Guardian repeating his words from the #newsrw event.

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Drawnalism at news:rewired 14th Jan 2010

January 15, 2010

Click the picture for a small gallery of drawing from the news:rewired event which was held at City University, London on 14th Jan 2010. You can follow the online buzz about the event here and find some less urgent and more reflective journalism about it at the site of the event’s organisers, Journalism.co.uk.
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Seasons greetings from Drawnalism

December 24, 2009
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Drawnalism 2009

December 17, 2009
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Some of our on-the-spot drawing and reportage from the autumn of 2009

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Why hand made content isn’t dead

December 13, 2009
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Today the influential Techcrunch site published a powerful piece of opinion claiming that hand-made content was dead.
This contention is based on the revolution in dispersal of ’free’ information – and new industrial-scale commercial attempts to make money through a volume provision of data. (Techcrunch cites a firm called Demand Media who are particularly depressing in [...]

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What is copyright?

November 20, 2009
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Today, the UK government will publish an amendment to its Digital Economy Bill which may allow a great change in the way the law of copyright operates in the UK.
The government amendment to the 1988 Copyright Designs and Patents Act (pdf) gives Ministers the ability to update the 1988 act without bringing new legislation to [...]

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Drawnalism at Reuters conference

November 12, 2009
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Yesterday, Alex Hughes and Matt Buck of Drawnalism attended Amplified 09’s £1.40 ‘curated unconference’, hosted by Reuters at their London base in Canary Wharf. The event was a mixture of talks and panels loosely set around the themes of the future of news and politics, and the impact which social media services like Twitter are [...]

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