Archive for January, 2010
Un tributo a Fernando Rubio
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Madrid, 30 de enero de 2010
Ayer fue un día duro para todos. Un cierre complicado. Ayer, en el cementerio de la Almudena de Madrid, decíamos hasta luego a nuestro querido Fernando Rubio. Un gran profesional y una bellísima persona.
A tribute to Fernando Rubio
Madrid, January 30, 2010
Yesterday was a difficult day for all of us. A difficult deadline. Yesterday, in Madrid’s La Almudena cemetery, we said goodbye to our dear friend Fernando Rubio, a great professional and a wonderful man.
Newspapers for everyone
Friday, January 29th, 2010
As more and more people get their news online, it’s easy to think that the newspaper is about to disappear.
But competition doesn’t automatically create obsolescence. It creates opportunity, and forces enhancement and focus. When you don’t have to do everything, you can concentrate on what you do really well. It is only when a medium’s inherent qualities are superceded in pretty much every way by its successors, that it is in danger. And that has not happened for newspapers.
Don’t worry: Newsprint will survive.
Horizontal or vertical navigation? It’s a trick question
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Since Jan. 11, an interesting debate has been playing out between fans of horizontal navigation on Web sites and those who prefer navigation to be vertically organized. Lots of good arguments have been raised for both views and I won’t make any attempt to boil down the discussion into one or two little bouillon cubes here. If you are interested, take a look at Smashing Magazine from where the attack against vertical navigation was originally launched and at the case of the defense here.
Two words about the new Apple tablet: Think different
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Steve Jobs will unveil something big on Wednesday morning. Early word — and there’s been much of it — is that Apple will reinvent the idea of portable computing with a new tablet that just might revolutionize publishing.
But if you’re worried about the tech specs and the price and the size of the thing and who will win the coveted phone contract (if there is one) and how the wireless will work and the millions of other rumors out there, you’re missing the point.
Apple thinks bigger.
It traffics in ideas.
Mauricio Gutierrez named Region 4 director
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
We’re pleased to announce that the Detroit Free Press’ Mauricio Gutierrez has been appointed the new Region 4 Director.
Five questions: Amanda Zamora, multimedia editor
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Amanda Zamora left The Washington Post last year to be part of the start-up team that would launch The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. The independent nonprofit journalism venture, funded by various donors (including, of course, The Huffington Post, but also the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Knight Foundation) and based in Washington, D.C., is part of
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10 Questions for Richard Saul Wurman
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
It was a treat to pose a few questions to information design guru and good friend, Richard Saul Wurman this week.
The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
A look behind the scenes of The New York Times’ visualization of movie rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities.
Nine questions for the creators of the Guardian’s iPhone app
Monday, January 18th, 2010
The Guardian’s iPhone app was launched last month. With its tailored look and clean interface, it has hung around the top spot of paid apps in Apple’s App Store. SND talks with the developers.
Region 16 update
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Check out “The Best of Newspaper Design” exhibit in Hamburg…
Region 4 update
Friday, January 15th, 2010
In a year that saw so much upheaval, Region 4 was as active as ever with bold changes happening at our publications in both print and digital versions.
Tell us how SNDF has helped you
Friday, January 15th, 2010
We’re looking for people who have been the lucky recipients of help from the SND Foundation.
Chris Courtney to lead SND’s training efforts
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
I am excited to announce that Chris Courtney has agreed to be our new Education and Training Director.
Many of you have witnessed Chris’s contagious enthusiasm. Last year, he organized several great training opportunities in Chicago: a very successful meet-up and a well-attended Web design boot camp.
Predicting e-readers in 1981: A look back at the future
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Newspapers in the Year 2000: “Videotex services will become mature businesses…” (This report written was originally published by APME in 1981. Republished here with permission.) Related: Matt Mansfield interviews Roger Fidler 15 years after his original vision for a newspaper tablet device. The appearance of newspapers at the beginning of the next century may be
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Screen gems: Roger Fidler talks about e-readers and tablets
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Fifteen years ago, Roger Fidler had a somewhat-prophetic vision for a thin electronic tablet. Now, as the publishing world scrambles to embrace e-readers and looks ahead to new devices and interaction models, we checked in with Fidler to reflect on missed opportunities and his predictions for what comes next.
Haiti’s disaster: Regarding the pain of others
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Tell the truth. Bear witness. Explain. Connect. As visual journalists, these abstract ideas never seem more real than when we’re confronted with the unreality of a disaster on the scale of the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath.
