Archived Posts by Rob Schneider

Free Syracuse Student Symposium on Friday, Feb. 8

Monday, February 4th, 2013

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We have an excellent lineup of speakers and topics for the annual student workshop in Syracuse from 12:30-5 p.m. on Friday at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

The speakers this year: Michael Whitley of the Los Angeles Times, Adrian Norris of The Globe and Mail (Canada), Andrea Zagata of The Buffalo News, Rob Schneider of The Dallas Morning News and Josh Crutchmer of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The symposium is sponsored by the Society for News Design Foundation and will also feature a student critique session. We’ll also offer an awesome door prize: one free registration to the SND annual workshop in Louisville, Ky. on Nov. 7-9.

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SND33: Digital design competition Day 2

Saturday, February 25th, 2012

SND President and Digital Design judge Jonathon Berlin chews on some entries Saturday morning.

The judges are hard at work in Muncie judging the wonderful work in the Best of Digital Design. This morning they will finish judging the largest category — single-story project. On Friday, judges gave the first awards of the competition in this category and also judged the Redesigns category. Next, judges will move on to

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SND33: Graphics slideshow

Monday, February 6th, 2012

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Some interesting pages on the tables of Syracuse for the graphics judging. These are not necessarily winners but are a great representation of wonderful work entered in The Society for News Design’s competition.

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SND33: Magazine design slideshow

Monday, February 6th, 2012

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Some interesting pages on the tables of Syracuse for the magazine design judging. These are not necessarily winners but are a great representation of wonderful work entered in The Society for News Design’s competition.

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SND33: Art direction portfolio slideshow

Monday, February 6th, 2012

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Some interesting pages on the tables of Syracuse for the art direction portfolio judging. These are not necessarily winners but are a great representation of wonderful work entered in The Society for News Design’s competition.

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SND33: Sunday afternoon page slideshow

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

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Here are some highlights of interesting pages on the tables in Syracuse on Sunday afternoon. These are not necessarily winners, but are great representations of the wonderful work on display at the creative competition.  

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SND33: Sports page slideshow

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

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Here are some interesting sports design pages from the tables of the creative competition. These are not necessarily winners, but are examples of the great sports pages on display of the creative competition. Apologize for the differences in picture quality as they were taken by several people.

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Help pick the web’s best sites, apps and widgets: Enter SND’s best of Digital News Design

Monday, January 30th, 2012

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The deadline for SND’s Best of Digital Design competition is coming right up. You have until Feb. 15 to get your entries up against the best sites, apps and digital work from around the world. Our team of judges from around the world will pick the best data-driven projects, photography and video, overall site design and usability and mobile and tablet apps. This year we will also let users give input via our competition site. Stay tuned for more details.

Nominate a site or app as for world’s best designed: http://digital.snd.org/worlds-best-nominations/

If you’d like to see the winners of our 2011 Digital Design Competition: http://digital.snd.org/2012/01/04/2011-winners/

Enter SND’s Best of Digital Design competition: http://digital.snd.org/submit-entry/

Deadline to enter: Feb. 15, 2012 (midnight PST).

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SND’s Best of Digital Design competition 2.0

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to get your entries ready for SND’s annual competitions for the best work online and in print. The site for SND’s digital competition is now open for business, with revisions aimed at further improving the contest and make it easier for you to showcase your work, while SND’s creative competition deadline is right around the corner.

How to enter the print competition here. Deadline for U.S. entries is Wednesday, Jan. 11 and for international entries is Wednesday, Jan. 18.

How to enter the digital competition here. The deadline for entries is Wednesday, Feb. 15.

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The state of SND

Friday, September 30th, 2011

SND Secretary/Treasurer At this time last year, SND was facing a fiscal crisis, and leadership (executive director Stephen Komives and officers Kris Viesselman, Steve Dorsey and Jonathon Berlin) responded by radically revising our budget model. And because they made it better reflect our current reality (especially in terms of the model for the workshop), SND

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Who made a visual difference in 2010?

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

XXCAPTION GOES HEREXX. (Illustration by Michael Hogue)

SND Design Journal is compiling a list of visual newsmakers for 2010 and wants your ideas.

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