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In design school, I was taught very western-centric design theories. This made me think about other design conventions, especially ones that speak to my heritage.
In this article, we detail the thought process behind our latest story about the world’s reliance on Asia’s transition minerals. We go through the reasoning behind how we designed and presented the piece, in a way that would be accessible and educational for the layperson audience.
I’ll be honest — three years in the field of storytelling/journalism has not made me much more confident about pitching stories than when…
How can data viz design benefit from design theories like the Gestalt principles?
Jane Zhang is an independent data visualization designer based in Toronto. She’s made a name for herself with her recognisable static…
One fine day in mid-2019, a little more than a year after Kontinentalist first launched, some of us sat down to discuss what was in store…
Last week, Pei Ying shared how we’ve rebranded from a map-driven studio to a data-driven storytelling studio… with a fresh new look to…
Let Dylan and Rifqi, our Lead Developer and Full-stack Web Developer, tell you why. Abandon ship! To answer why, let us travel back in time to when Konti started, as Peiying mentioned in her article on our rebranding. In the early days of 2017–2018, most of what we did
We’ve given Kontinentalist a makeover!! Gone are the beige-brown days, and here are the purples, oranges, and pinks.
Hello again! In this second post about our rebranding of notes for the equator, our visual designer Munirah spills the tea about…
Hello! We (Bella and Griselda) will be talking about the rebranding of our newsletter, notes from the equator, in two parts here in this…