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stuart July 1st, 2008Figures will examine through practice led, interdisciplinary research the feasibility of a news magazine built entirely from information graphics. The research will comprise an examination of the visuality of news information and information graphics. It will attempt to examine if a move away from photography’s dominance in news visualisation will allow for greater contextualisation of events within a broader news landscape. While we adopt Hans Rosling’s (www.gapminder.org) call to liberate the public data held in user-unfriendly formats, our approach is new in exploring the possibilities of a context centred news magazine built solely from information graphics, and in examining what constitutes ‘liberation of data’.We will be carrying out surveys and experiments in this on-line companion to the magazine to determine what kinds of information graphics audiences find accessible.