Good Journal

VIDEO

When i first wooked at good i was surprised to find out it was an actual magazine up unitl now we have been looking at things related specifically to a design audience.  I was happy to find these excellent examples of say type in motion.  The intro to the videos is excellent in the first four seconds 4 to five seconds has such an interesting combination of text and image it draws my attention is right from the beginning.  This one is quite complex i would say and every time i see the beginning i see a different graphic, it also goes fast.  This intro definitely has flash in it i feel like given the graphics any of us could have figured it out which makes me very excited. In the GOOD News section of videos the animation is so simple, it is a series of scaled images. The guys mouth could be frame by frame by frame or in flash a movie inside of a movie.  This makes me feel so good about using my abiliies in the real world. The type videos cost of war and the state of the planet were really good examples of using type and image on a minimalist level.  The images could easily be taken away and the text would still have the motion of the object, or for example on the 8 golds medals graphic which has no text the word god could have taken on that drop from the top motion the medals did.   

Information graphics

i found this section to be very interesting it reminded me of a mix between our map project and our last project of making posters from data. This ne imparticular does in excellent job of tellin gmy eye were to go.  It shows a map of where this pill travel and also is putting data into a graphic chart.  Most of the other ones does this same thing although the gas one is just a chart. 

Magazine 

the magazine has some very interesting articles.  I like that all of the articles are something different.  Different in a way i wouldn't think to let's say google it on my own and different in that they are not all on design or only business in the U.S. they are form 

everywhere. Some of the designed graphics along with the articles are usually really interesting.   This graphic on the right "thinking inside the box"  really caught my attention simple but paired with the title thinking inside the box really made it work for me.  the section that intrigued me the most on the site is the section titled Good Guide to Shadowy Organizations. An interesting random topic even for the history channel none the less a magazine, but that is just anther thing to add to the list of likes i have for GOOD, variety. 

Conclusion

all in al my experience on the GOOD website was good enough i have added it to my my favorites.  I really liked how there is such a variety of ways to get the information.  Weather it is in an animated news  video or reading and article or text and image and speech working together to tell the story or in a chart.  The colors of the site are black and this greyish color and in most of there stories as well but the interesting things have a bright color that also help in getting your attention.