Archived Posts by Jonathon Berlin
SND33 Best in Show: Svenska Dagbladet’s breaking news coverage of Norway attacks
Monday, February 6th, 2012
UPDATE: Check out a PDF of the Best in Show pages from Svenska Dagbladet.
For the first time since 2002, the judges of SND’s annual creative competition selected a Best in Show: Svenksa Dagbladet‘s breaking news coverage of the July 2011 Norway attacks.
The 16 pages from the Stockholm, Sweden, paper combine stunning photography, engrossing information graphics, sharp typography, brilliant pacing and page architecture in a piece of journalism that answers every question a reader might have about the attack in which 77 people were killed in Oslo and a nearby island.
SND33: Trends in typography, color and design
Monday, February 6th, 2012
When you take 21 designers from around the world and have them pore over thousands and thousands of pages over three long days, those people start to make observations. Syracuse student Chris Azar pulled a few aside and asked them what trends they had spotted.
SND33: A world of entries from 39 countries
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
The 10,131 entries for SND’s creative competition came from 39 countries. At the end of last year’s judging winners hailed from more than 20 countries. Stay tuned for more all weekend long.
Check here for coverage of SND33.
Let’s talk about readability on the web. On Twitter at #readme
Monday, January 9th, 2012
Right after the click or touch, in that millisecond before the animations kick in, the gifs become animated and the wizzes start to bang, people have the reasonable expectation to read something. Actually read something. In the reading world we live in, how many shapes and colors and colorful shapes do we put in the
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How you can join the conversation
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
SND would like to invite you to join our Year-Long Conversation, a 365 day experiment about all things news design that starts today. The Conversation headquarters is right here on snd.org where we’ll post essays, discussions, images, files to share and news of other ways the conversation will date place on social media and at events and meet-ups.
Here is what we have to get the conversation started:
2012 resolution: Meet five who want to improve themselves this year
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
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. These five visual journalists have volunteered to take part of an 2012 experiment: to try and improve themselves over the coming year and we’ll document it here.
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Open-source Iowa Caucus graphic
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
One element of SND’s Year-Long Conversation will be to bring visual journalists together and to share work and insights. With such a huge news year ahead, the Chicago Tribune agreed to share this portion of its Election 2012 coverage as an open-source graphic. Feel free to publish the graphic, or information from the graphic in
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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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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.
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.
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.
How optimistic are you? Take our past/present/future survey
Friday, September 30th, 2011
What were you doing five years ago? What are you doing now? What do you think you’ll be doing five years in the future? And how optimistic were you at each of those junctures?
Take our past/present/future survey and tell us. Click here to take the survey.
ESPN’s Rob King: It’s not your career, it’s your journey
Friday, September 30th, 2011
“It’s going to work out. You just don’t know how yet.” That was some advice that Rob King got from his boss a few years ago at a difficult time in his life. He and his wife were trying to start a family. And it’s advice that he also passed along in an inspirational keynote
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SND fall board meeting: Aiming high above St. Louis
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Society for News Design board members gathered for our twice-a-year board meeting Wednesday, Sept. 28 on the 21st floor of the workshop hotel — The Renaissance Grand. The board is made up of volunteers from across the globe representing different geographic regions and topic areas. At the meeting were members from Dubai, Germany, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
Tweet, tweet, buzz, buzz: SND St. Louis social media
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
How to follow — and join — the discussion, on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube and more.
Live… from Muncie! Meet the Digital Design judges and support staff
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
