February 2012
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There's Beauty in Emptiness
Or at least money in such. Brendan Greeley, or as we call him for no good reason the Gree-man, wrote about a wireless broadband gold rush set off by an obscure provision of the payroll tax bill: dead-air broadcast TV channels, kept empty to avoid interference with neighboring markets, can now be filled with the siren song of whatever. Good news for rural areas written off by broadband telecoms. I...
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January 2012
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The most talented AD at Businessweek?
Our printer. It had some sort of aneurysm before a walkthrough, and these happened.
See the whole set here, but don’t look too close. It’s not a magic eye.
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December 2011
14 posts
Postmortem: 2011 Year-End Issue
The year-end issue, like all of our special issues in general and 2010’s year-end specifically, was cruel to the graphics desk. 7-day workweeks. Sleep dep. Spiders living in my neckbeard. But it turned out nice, so I’ll walk you through the process of getting my charts on page.
Detroit
The Detroit map, showing 2011’s sparks of hope in everyone’s favorite decayfest,...
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What’s next for transportation? Don’t quote BizWeekGraphics but we’re betting jet pack. Our first animation with the amazing Bran Doughtery-Johnson!
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November 2011
9 posts
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October 2011
5 posts
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