Archive for October, 2011
A mobile experience in China
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Led by the indefatigable Lily Lu and sponsored by the Youth Times, SND held a workshop on “Gearing Up for the Mobile Age” in Hangzhou, China, this past weekend. Instructors Joey Marburger and Yuri Victor of the Washington Post taught 50-plus attendees in the three-day workshop. Every attendee left with the ability to create a mobile site. Every attendee also joined SND. This means the Society now boasts more than 100 members in the Middle Kingdom. I spoke with a few of the attendees about their experiences. Even when speaking through a translator it’s obvious we all share a universal design language.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Pull Your Tearsheets: Enter SND’s annual creative competition
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The 33rd Call for Entries for SND’s annual creative competition is now posted. Click here for the Booklet, Editable pdf Entry Forms and Tally Sheets, and for deadlines and other information about this year’s competition.
We will be posting the Call online in other languages soon.
A printed version will be mailed to members in the next few weeks as well.
Click on the the jump for a Q&A with 33rd edition coordinator Josh Crutchmer about rule changes and key dates this year.
Who helped you in your career? Here’s a chance to say thank you
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
One of the cool things about SND is how we help each other. We are united by a common pursuit and when our paths cross, we usually help each other out. To honor this at the recent workshop in St. Louis, we asked folks who helped them in their career. Here are there answers, in the form of a visual thank you.
Who helped you in your career? Here’s your chance to say thank you in the comments below. Or, heck, if you need help, you could ask.
Mexico prepares for World Design Summit
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Mexico City is an incredible cultural mecca. And now, we have one more good reason to head there: the VII World Design Press Summit will take place there Oct. 24-26.
Picture this: Napkin self portraits
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
It doesn’t come as a big surprise that a lot of good work at the annual SND workshop happens at the bar. In this case, Ball State students Valerie Carnevale and Stephanie Stamm set out to get as many napkin self portraits as they could.
- Check the gallery here.
- We also asked folks what inspired them. - Of course, the SND Foundation makes it possible for students to come to the workshop each year. Donate here.
SND 2011 Hangzhou Quick Course: Gearing up for the Mobile Age
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
The mobile age is now. As the number of devices, platforms and apps explode, it is imperative to gain an understanding of what it all means. And how to prepare for it. The emphasis of this course will be to focus on the variety of mobile experiences in the current world landscape and what is succeeding. By focusing on the immediate past, hidden present, and unknown future of mobile, this course cuts through the swirling information overload surrounding the mobile world. SND-Chinese will focus its next Quick Course on this Oct. 29-31, 2011 at Tianducheng Resort, Hangzhou.
Meet 2011 College Designer of the Year Jason Willis
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Jason Willis, a senior at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., was named SND’s College Designer of the Year on October 1, 2011, during the awards banquet in St. Louis. The judges cited his rich portfolio of print and multimedia work. We caught up with Jason for a Q&A this week.
SND Lifetime Achievement Award: Roger Fidler
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
The Society for News Design is proud to present its Lifetime Achievement Award to an innovator, leader, teacher, founder and friend: Roger Fidler.
Fidler, the digital program director at Digital Publishing Alliance at the University of Missouri’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute accepted the award at the awards banquet at the SND’s award banquet at its annual workshop in St. Louis Saturday.
SND Lifetime Achievement Award: Gayle Grin
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
For her creative work and leadership at papers in Canada that have been an inspiration and her enthusiastic, smart and tireless work on behalf of SND that has benefited us all, the Society of News Design presented Gayle Grin with The Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Annual Award Banquet in St. Louis.
Steve Jobs: Leave your remembrance
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
As the design world — indeed, much of the entire world — mourns the loss of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at 56 after battling pancreatic cancer, SND looks back on the device that changed our lives. Please share your thoughts about Steve Jobs.
Five News Sites and Apps Named World’s Best Designed
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Five Web sites and mobile apps were named World’s Best Designed™ in the inaugural year of the Society for News Design’s annual Best of Digital News Design competition, from: CNN, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian and NPR.
Big question at SND STL: What inspires you?
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
The student bloggers at SNDSTL fanned out asking as many folks as they could find: What inspires you?
Watch the video above or check out our storify board on the jump. Contribute here.
Dave Gray on better meetings through “gamestorming”
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Dave Gray, founder of XPLANE, demonstrates gamestorming at the Saturday 11 a.m. keynote in St. Louis. David Yanofsky, an interactive designer at Bloomberg News, presenting his ‘problem-solving’ map in front of the audience. Brave man! By Wes Meltzer, Orlando Sentinel We’re having technical difficulties with Storify today, which is how this reporter was preparing to
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Quality and quantity: where to focus cross-platform editing resources
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Our newsrooms aren’t getting any more resources, even while our work grows more demanding. SEO this! Re-edit this for print! Get it online now! Where do we focus our limited time and effort, and is there a research-driven basis for it? Teresa Schmedding, president of the American Copy Editors Society and AME of the Daily
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Roar from China: The Liaoning Daily’s Golden Tiger
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
It was the year of the Tiger, 2010. At the Liaoning Daily, visual director Qingiun Zhang and his team were striving to do something different, something special to mark the year, to tell the story. “Manchurian Tiger’s Greeting for the New Year” won a gold medal in SND’s creative competition, one of only three awarded last year.
Charles grapples with inspiration
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Charles Apple veered from his characteristic and informative visual journalism talks, and instead, delivered an evangelical message to the more than 100 folks who turned out to hear him. He took an uncomfortable topic all too familiar to most of us, and turned it into an inspirational call to be ready to remake ourselves
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