Archive for March, 2009
China graphics workshop helps break new ground
Monday, March 30th, 2009
A report from the SND Infographics Design/Asian Boot Camp that was held last weekend (March 26-28, 2009) in Chongqing, China They gathered us together inside a bomb shelter at an abandoned warehouse in Chongqing, China. What was once built as a place of refuge during the Cold-War era, now served as part of an art
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Web Design 101: Time to head back to school
Monday, March 30th, 2009
I went to Nashville for the SND Web Design Boot Camp at the Freedom Forum, which is an amazing facility on the campus of Vanderbilt University. There were 30 participants at the two-day workshop, most with similar backgrounds and skill levels as me. Luckily for us there were two excellent instructors — Tyson Evans of The New York Times and Dave Wright Jr. of NPR.
Design at business: What we started with Rev 2.0
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Big problems need big solutions. The problems facing newspaper companies today need some of the biggest ideas available. But finding those hasn’t been easy — lots of people have tried. On Saturday, the Society joined a day-long event in Washington aimed at helping the struggling newspaper industry find online revenue solutions in a few key
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Small business solutions: Beyond the click
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
The RevenueTwoPointZero event happened on Saturday in Washington. This is the report from the small business solutions team. Our group considering options for small and medium businesses started by putting ourselves in business owners’ shoes, imagining: A handful of employees, if that many Probably only one location, and probably not exactly where we’d like it
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How news organizations can take back classifieds
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
The RevenueTwoPointZero event happened on Saturday in Washington. This is the report from the classified solutions team. Classified advertising — which includes cars, jobs and homes — used to account for 25-50 percent of newspaper revenue. Most of that advertising has migrated from print to national aggregators online, such as CraigsList. If newspapers can recover
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Rethinking advertising + the homepage experience
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
The RevenueTwoPointZero event happened on Saturday in Washington. This is the report from the display advertising solutions team. Homepages get more traffic than any other single page on a news site. Typically, they provide a convenient digest of the newest posts on a site, which is a convenience to users. But this benefit to users
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Mobile: Paying for functionality in news apps
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
The RevenueTwoPointZero event happened on Saturday in Washington. This is the report from the mobile team. Our solutions for monetizing the iPhone are based on existing technology but an emerging audience. The current audience may be small, but it’s clearly growing. Mobile remains new, so it offers opportunities to pursue revenue strategies that may not
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An effort to find new revenue models launches
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Next weekend, the Society will be part of a day-long event in Washington aimed at helping the struggling newspaper industry find revenue solutions in a few key areas. The belief is that design thinking can help frame the issue because those of us used to conceptualizing can make a fast round of prototypes that will
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Hearst to close Seattle P-I
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Thanks to P-I graphics and design editor Julie Simon for the front page images The Hearst Corp., announced today that it will close the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Tuesday. The March 17 newspaper will be the final edition of the 146-year-old, 118,000-circulation newspaper. Hearst, which is privately held, owns 15 other daily newspapers, 49 weekly papers
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‘The P-I staff relished its uphill fight’
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer possessed a ragamuffin toughness. Like a two-fisted street kid, it earned its share of battle scars and wore them proudly. While at the P-I – those of us who worked there rarely called it the “Post-Intelligencer” – I found my ideas about visual storytelling shaped by people like Robert McClure, Ruth Teichroeb and
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On being laid off: ‘Nothing stays the same’
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Editor’s note: This essay is published in the next issue of Design, which will be mailed to Society for News Design members this spring. The new double issue, “Hitting the reset button,” helps you reboot your career, your soul, your creativity and your journalistic moxie as the industry faces epic transition. ‘Hello, this is the
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P-I tributes
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
As we put another American newspaper to bed, here are some memories of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Please add your own in the comments. We’ve enjoyed the competition with the P-I tremendously over the years, wincing on the rare occasions when they “beat” us with a stronger front-page design and savoring it when we came back
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New York City meetup: Thanks to everyone
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
We were in New York City on Saturday for a free regional meetup. More than 100 people joined us in person and many more checked in online. The all-star lineup of speakers included graphics legend Nigel Holmes, Rolling Stone art director Joe Hutchinson, former Fortune graphics editor Sarah Slobin, and New York Times interactive graphics
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An appreciation: 10 things I learned at the Rocky
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
I’m heartbroken about the Rocky Mountain News. My mind races between sadness, disbelief, anger and a cold, whispering fear that what we are facing as an industry could very well do the rest of us in. If it could happen there … The Rocky newsroom was wildly talented, coolly efficient and extremely close-knit. Its priorities
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