Archived Posts by SND Headquarters
SND33: Tallying the winners (UNOFFICIAL RESULTS)
Monday, February 6th, 2012
After three very long days of judging at Syracuse University (the 23rd time it has been hosted here), general judging of the Best of News Design™ print competition is now complete. Here’s a look at SND33 by the numbers.
SND33: Winner-tracker™
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Judging is under way in surprisingly snowless Syracuse, NY, in the Society for News Design’s annual competition. The team of judges come from all over the world: Hong Kong, London, Buenos Aires, Bloomington, Indiana. Stay tuned to this page for updates all weekend long. We’ll capture trends and quotes, meet the people, look at the pages, and we’ll give you a sample of some of the competition winners.
The judging will last until Monday evening as judges sort through 10,131 entries, just about as many as last year.
Check here for coverage of SND33 all weekend.
SND appoints new training director: Lee Steele
Monday, February 6th, 2012
At the core of SND’s mission is to provide education and networking opportunities for members. The Society hosts events and meetups all around the world.
We are also constantly searching for ways to make events more useful and accessible for members and the wider visual journalism community.
To meet this opportunity and challenge, SND is appointing one of our best to the post of Training Director, Lee Steele.
SND33: Overheard in Syracuse
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve collected comments, insights and trends from this year’s creative competition. The people quoted are kept anonymous, as are the publications they are talking about. COMMENTS FROM SUNDAY Using “The Book” as your guide “It’s OK to have the book (SND’s Best of News Design book which shows last year) as your guide,
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SND33: Slideshow of breaking news photos
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Here are some interesting breaking news design pages from the tables of the creative competition. These are not necessarily winners, but are examples of the great breaking news pages on display of the creative competition. Apologize for the differences in picture quality as they were taken by several people.
Kicking off the competition: SND33!
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
For the 33rd year, we’re set to roll in the Best of News Design print competition. Check snd.org starting Saturday morning through Monday evening for continuing coverage of the competition. It’ll be a fast-paced three days. It’s an honor to invite you to follow us along online and to share a bit of insight into
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Syracuse Student Symposium summary
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
A summary of the Syracuse Student Symposium — held Friday on the Syracuse campus — featuring presentations by Jonathon Berlin, Richard Johnson and Adonis Durado: To view the speakers presentations and read an archive of our “Cover It Live” blog from the event here. Jonathon Berlin: Mistakes I’ve made (For video of Jonathon’s speech, click
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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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Holiday sale! Save $100 on your SND Cleveland registration
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
SND’s 2nd Annual holiday sale runs through the end of the year- save $100 on your SND Cleveland registration.
Inspiration and interactivity will be the themes when SND comes to Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 11-13 for our annual workshop. This is your chance to get the costs on the 2011 budget and guarantee your spot at sndcle. Register here.
$250 for professional members and $200 for faculty and students for a limited time. Stay tuned to here for details.
Malofiej 20: A competition, a workshop, and a lot more
Monday, November 21st, 2011
March in Spain. With world-class infographics to boot. Sound sweet? The Malofiej competition celebrates its 20th anniversary March 18-23 next year with series of special events tied to the competition and weeklong workshop. It’s set in Pamplona, the historic and visually stunning home of the Running of the Bulls. Malofiej has attracted more than 30,000
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First Asia Pacific news design conference for print & online
Friday, November 18th, 2011
WAN-IFRA and the Society for News Design (SND) will join together to present a conference Jan. 23, 2012 in New Delhi, India to show the participants the “best practices” in creativity, originality and the efficiency in producing news for all platforms.
In this workshop, the participants will analyze their product and will have the opportunity to work on the design under the guidance of the trainer. The workshop will give the participants a critique on their
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.
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.
Steve Jobs: Leave your remembrance
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
