Monday, October 10, 2005

Annoying Boston Globe Graphics

I get the print edition of the Boston Globe. Today two things bothered me about their page designs. First was the cover story of the Health and Science Section on flu vaccines. There's a fine graphic timeline on how the vaccine is made and some text, but someone choose to put some splattered green and yellow background that I guess is supposed to look like cells in a petri dish. To me it was like reading text over vomit. Ridiculous. At least it's not in the online version of the story.

A cover story of the City and Region section was about map-based travel guides of Boston and how they only show a limited area. They had a summary of 6 guides each with a small map and a rectangle that showed how much of Boston they covered. But to screw up the comparison, 4 of the maps were the same and 2 were different. They all should have been on the same scale.

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