Mallory at SMH: July 2015

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Hospital birth stats

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/failure-to-cut-medical-intervention-rates-in-childbirth-20150725-gikdnn.html

There's an uncomfortable amount of information about how babies are born in NSW. Delve deep at your discretion. There are three charts - all SVGs that transition

Nat'l Geographic kids quiz

http://www.smh.com.au/national/can-you-pass-the-national-geographic-kids-quiz-20150726-gikiu0?9287324

This is just my regular quiz format I made a while back for Les Miserables and the gay pride Mardi Gras quiz. However! the Sun Herald is running a National Geographic promo, so we got to skin our content look like their stuff - to inspire the paper purchases. The custom splotchy sun background was pretty exciting to make into a repeating background tile. And all the images get to be in colorful circles! really cheered up my day.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Diplomatic impunity

http://www.smh.com.au/national/diplomats-rack-up-thousands-of-dollars-in-unpaid-parking-and-speeding-fines--20150711-gi8etp.html

Diplomats are coming to Australia and breaking the law with very minor traffic infringements. But then they don't pay up. So, we pooled all the fines and fees for the top 40 countries out there defying Aussie rules and principalities.

USA is tied with Egypt for #8 with 7 unpaid fines.

Oil has never looked so good

I love working with content that looks this nice. I was given 13 pro shot photos of oil in varied containers. (exempt is the olive oil - it's actually canola oil that I have photoshopped - the only two in the same containers).

http://www.goodfood.com.au/good-food/cook/are-you-cooking-with-the-right-oil-20150708-gi1agi.html

web version

The perpetual battle is mobile content. Since these little interactives are iframe'd into a page that will display web and mobile content interchangeably, I need to divine a way to display the same content on a narrower screen that cannot get deeper. This one is a success story; I got a bit smarter. The trick is to think small first, then expand for web. That way you make sure everything fits the lowest common denominator.

mobile version

Council amalgamation

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/minister-toole-warns-councils-to-look-to-the-future-and-seek-mergers-20150628-ghzt90

A recent issue in NSW that has been perpetually simmering, for what feels like the whole time I've lived here, is 'Council Amalgamation.' The state proposed merger of many clusters of smaller councils to a few large government bodies. A few stand to gain and many think they stand to lose if this happens. It looks more efficient, but is the primary job of local government efficiency?

Winter is coming - what to do for the next three months

This project came up really fast. I had to flex my spreadsheet muscles and crank out a very concise way to display a rather large amount of information - also had to be flexible for the varied phone sizes to which we want to cater to fully. Also the print version was done, so the colour layout was meant to reflect the prior paper visual decisions.