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Rafael Höhr, Spain

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Speaker at conference session Infographics on Sep 11

Abstract:
A graphic is a complement of the information content of the web site. In newspapers we have to read statisc layouts and graphics. Now we can move them like little cartoons and allow the reader to interact with them. But we must not forget that the content and the news graphics works always togheter to tell a story, so they do not have to tell the same information.

A graphics is information, but moving, sound and time can be used to explain too, to add more information or to emphasize the content. This is the objetive.

If we add to a new a beautiful graphic with nice presentation, good looking, nice colors and things that appears and disappears on the screen, music or specials effects sounds, we´ll have a big file that does not explain anything and is to big to download in moments like the eleventh of september when all the servers were saturated and all the media online had to clean their frontpage to make them operative.

There were to many graphics in these weeks, but How many of them were accurate?. Of course the reader see only his news channel. He does not read all the newspapers. If he could do it (without die) he could see how the contents change around a little truth (there was a terrorist attack in the EEUU).

At the web we have to tell stories faster, but we can not lie. We have to make graphics faster than the traditional newspaper graphics departaments, but we can not invent.

We can fall in a mistake when we draw something at the print edition, like an arrow in the wrong direction, a false scale, wrong drawing or a bad information in the text. At the web we have to increase the posibility of be wrong when we move something, add a wrong action to a button or a link or make the text content in pass time and we use the graphics more than one day.

Bio:
Born 1972

Rafael specializes in breaking interactive graphics for the online editions of some spanish newspapers. Actually building the relationships between the new online graphic departament and the traditional infographic sections of the newspaper.

1994 started to work with Diario de Cadiz, local spanish
newspaper.
1996-1999 Graphic editor at Diario de Cadiz, Diario de Jerez, Europa Sur and Diario de Sevilla.
2000 El Mundo: Interactive visual journalist for the online edition.
2001 EL PAIS, Diario As and Cadena Ser: graphic journalist at the online editions.

Winner of some Malofiej awards in print and online sections,including the
Peter Sullivan award.

Graduated in Information Science, Sevilla University, in 1996.