Archive for December, 2011
What is your professional past, present and future?
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Journalism is in a time of flux. No one knows what is going to be happening to the industry over the course of the next five years, or even the next six months. Over the weekend of the SNDSTL conference, student travel grant winners Emily Chow, Greg Mees and Katie Park asked design folks from
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New Years Resolution: Improve yourself in 2012 and tell your story on snd.org
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
In 2012 SND will host a Year-Long Conversation about all things news design. The conversation will take place on the site and at various events around the world.
To kick start one part of that effort, we are on the hunt for five visual journalists who wish to take part in a 2012 experiment: We are looking for people who want to learn and improve themselves in the coming year and we want to document it.
Want to learn more? Click on the jump.
Videos from mobile lectures: SND STL now on demand
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Couldn’t make it to St. Louis for the 2011 edition of the annual workshop? Double-scheduled? Don’t worry: from mobile to visual inspiration, ESPN and news apps, we have video to catch you up to speed, with a special emphasis on the very full sessions on mobile/tablet and Web design.
Design Journal reprint: Lou Silverstein on Peter Pallazo
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
By Louis Silverstein (Reprinted from Design Journal 95, Summer 2005. Silverstein wrote this tribute in honor of his friend and contemporary Peter Pallazo) Writing about Peter Pallazo comes easy to me. Our lives were intertwined sometimes tightly, sometimes more loosely, for over 50 years. We followed parallel career paths and we were good friends —
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Design Journal reprint: Phil Ritzenberg on Louis Silverstein
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
By Phillip Ritzenberg (Reprinted from Design Journal #81 in 2001. Ritzenberg wrote this tribute as part of his presentation of SND’s Lifetime Achievement Award to Silverstein) If it’s Home, it must be
Thursday … Twentysomethings and thirtysomethings working at newspaper design — even some fortysomethings — may be surprised that some of the big moments
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A founder of modern newspaper design: Louis Silverstein, 1919-2011
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Louis Silverstein’s innovations at The New York Times brought about a sweeping change to how newspapers were read and organized across the country. His ascension to Assistant Managing Editor also signalled a new place for visual journalists in the newsroom, that of equal partners. The Times’ obit can be read here.
Silverstein was honored with SND’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Design Journal issue 81 carried an account of the award presentation in Phoenix that year. His work was also featured in SND’s 25 Moment’s of News Design in 2004. SND founder Phillip Ritzenberg captured Silverstein’s significance to the craft in this excerpt from his presentation of Silverstein’s award in 2001.
A life’s work in sections: In 2004, Silverstein’s work at The Times was selected as one of the most influential moments in news design. SND founder Phillip Ritzenberg wrote on Lou’s contribution at The Times and to the industry. Access a reprint here
Silverstein writes about his friend, Pete Pallazo: In the Summer of 2005, the industry lost another of its founders in Peter Pallazo. Silverstein wrote this tribute. for Design Journal.
A gallery of Silverstein’s pages here.
