Tim Ball

Founding creative director @politicoeurope; Liz 🍋 enthusiast; Opinion-haver; a Gay. I'll buy a hot dog stand if I'm tryna be frank.

[Society for News Design @SND]

🥇 A #SND45 Print gold medal in Illustration: Single Illustration (News or Business) has been awarded to
@POLITICOEurope for "The road to COP28".

• @_ricardotomas_, illustrator
• @tball, art director, print

[N. Kirkpatrick @n_kirkpatrick]

This morning, @washingtonpost published the most comprehensive account to date of the repeating pattern of destruction wrought by the AR-15. Our story w/@SilviaElenaFF, Arelis R. Hernández and team. Please take care when viewing:

https://t.co/kCXYb8lIvB

[Walter Hickey @WaltHickey]

hey are there like ten people with a diverse set of skills who are free on nov 10 for no reason in particular

[Gay-briel @Ian_Gay_briel]

new york needs to start turning californians away at the border what the fuck is this shit

[Tim Ball @tball]

sometimes it matters when the scrolly bit doesn't scroll on mobile

[Tim Ball @tball]

@greysonchance hi

[Tim Ball @tball]

Nobody but Paul could have come up with all that is packed into this week’s paper. Wish I’d had such a guide when I stepped off that airplane in Brussels eight (!!!) years ago!

[Paul Dallison @pdallisonesque]

Very proud to have put together a @POLITICOEurope guide to Brussels. Thanks to @tball for making it look amazing and thanks to @BMoens @SarahAnneAarup @hclae @joshposaner Giulia Polini @KetrinJochecova @EddyWax Leyla Aksu @AliWalker24 @MariEccles
https://t.co/q9pdn5kKIs

[mymind @mymind]

"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride."

- Anthony Bourdain

[Tim Ball @tball]

As someone who always has to have reruns of tv shows playing while I’m working, there’s nothing quite like that season one finale of Ted Lasso to emotionally destroy me at the start of the week.

[Lisa Maltby ✎ @Lisa_Maltby]

If you’ve been following my #36daysoftype - bird themed letters and my son’s BEAUTIFUL drawings of birds each day, you can now pre-order our prints with 10% of profits going to @WildlifeTrusts

https://t.co/9E8C0N7dyv

[Tim Ball @tball]

Thrilled and humbled to again be amongst this jury… especially since this time we won’t be sequestered in a ballroom in Syracuse or Florida!

(Should I start packing?)

[Society for News Design @SND]

We’re thrilled to announce the 47 phenomenal judges coming to New York for the Best of News Design Competitions. They’re coming from seven different countries and represent a wide variety of fields within visual journalism. Get to know more about them!
https://t.co/0TmRrEvxtB

[Tim Ball @tball]

This week's @POLITICOEurope front page. (Sauna illustration by @dato_parulava; photograph by Mikko Stig for EPA.)

[Tim Ball @tball]

This week's @POLITICOEurope front page (featuring a story you perhaps read previously online), with a killer photo-illustration by Beatrice Caciotti.

[Tim Ball @tball]

My brilliant friend, former Politico intern extraordinaire, and everything-new-journalism unicorn, @macblair_txt, made a text bot that has brought me great solace for the past several years. You should subscribe if you’re a human person who has feelings. https://t.co/93Xk23w5DP

[Tim Ball @tball]

tfw flour is true to itself

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

I would have chosen another headline tbh

[Tim Ball @tball]

venn diagram of people who wait until the last second to merge in a lane-closed situation vs. people who rush up the aisle the second the seat-belt-sign dings on an airplane.

[Tim Ball @tball]

Anything from Bradley — in this case, text and photos, from that giant cold island we rarely hear about unless someone wants to buy it and turn it into a third-rate golf resort — is such a delight to work on.

If you missed it online, here’s the link: https://t.co/xx4yBkABeh

[Bradley Secker @bradleysecker]

Exciting to see my latest feature on Greenland’s unique approach to climate change, shot & written for @POLITICOEurope - in its gorgeous print layout. (7 pages!🍀🧿🥰)

Published today.
Thanks to @pulitzercenter @tball @christinespolar

[Tim Ball @tball]

important addendum, true of all taco bell menu items but especially these wings: eat them immediately

[Tim Ball @tball]

I don’t know wtf I’m supposed to use this dumb app for anymore but I do know this: Jeremy Schneider is right about everything, and especially about these wings.

11/10 omg run don’t walk (not kidding)

[Jeremy Schneider @jeremyschneider.bsky.social @J_Schneider]

I tried Taco Bell’s chicken wings so you don’t have to. Here’s my review. https://t.co/bLrPbRlR39