As another big election approaches in Australia, our editorial design team will be recreating the cut-and-paste homemade visual approach that we used across our coverage of the 2024 US and UK elections. You can see how our designers created this unique set of work in the video above.
In this Q&A, originally published ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, I spoke to Rich Cousins, our digital design director, based in the UK, and Marcus Peabody, creative director and head of visuals for Guardian US, about the story of this distinctly analogue approach to two very digital elections.
