Archive for May, 2011
Take a practical look at the potential & pitfalls of working abroad with Bill Gaspard at SND STL
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Our next speaker for SND STL, Bill Gaspard, will offer an interesting, international perspective and practical career advice on how to finding design work abroad in his session titled, ”No Longer a Tourist.” Session Description: In the last SND annual competition, one thing some of the big winners — from World’s Best “i” in Portugal
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Design in Paris… in the spring: WAN-IFRA + SND
Friday, May 13th, 2011
WAN-IFRA – SND conference: “Design for the News and Magazines Publishing Industry” WAN-IFRA, in cooperation with the Society for News Design, are organizing the third edition of its international conference dedicated to design for newspapers and magazines, to be held in Paris, France, on 19 May next. The objective of this conference is to examine
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SND STL speaker announcement: Joy Mayer
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
We’re excited to announce our next speaker, Joy Mayer, who will be providing a very interesting perspective on design and how it applies to user engagement: Designers as user advocates The craft of journalism is too often driven by the journalists themselves — by their own standards of what is important and worthy. Designers have
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Social media + art + journalism = The courtroom-tweet-sketch
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
During a lull in the trial he was covering, Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter Chao Xiong began live tweeting sketches from the courtroom, essentially becoming a social media sketch artist for the trial, a unique combination of journalism and social media, pen, paper and digital tools.
National Press Photographers Association “Business Blitz” pre-conference workshop comes to SND STL
Friday, May 6th, 2011
We’re excited to announce our partnership with the National Press Photographers Association for a pre-SND STL conference workshop on freelance business skills on Thursday, Sept. 29! Pricing will be $10 for NPPA and SND members, $20 for non-members. Speakers are TBA, so stay tuned for more details. Here’s more info from the NPPA’s official announcement:
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SND Gold Medal winner Qingjun Zhang will discuss his Golden Tiger at SND STL
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
We’re excited to announce our next speaker for SND STL, winner of a rare SND Gold Medal for his design work on the Chinese Tiger calendar package, Qingjun Zhang! He will be discussing, “The state and the trend of Chinese ‘serious’ Newspapers and the Golden Tiger” including his Gold Medal project (photos above, courtesy of
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