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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Multi-touch communication in journalism

by Matt Buck on 14th April 2010

We like the way this technology is developing because of the possibilities for interactive, narrative journalism and story-telling using hand control. The secret as we have written before lies in this interface between human and tool. The more natural the control systems the better the possibilities for communication – and so, for drawnalism.

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#newsrw – Are speakers conversationalists?

by Matt Buck on 25th February 2010

We recently attended the news:rewired conference organised by Journalism.co.uk and held at City University in London. Above is a short interactive with an analysis of the key speakers from the event and some of their behaviour on Twitter.

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The interface with technology

January 27, 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 [...]

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#newsrw – Greg Hadfield of Cogapp

January 18, 2010

NewsRewired – 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 [...]

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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.
If anyone who attended [...]

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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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