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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
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.
Cristóbal Edwards named SND international director
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Cristóbal Edwards has been named SND’s international director. “Chris is uniquely positioned because of his diverse media experience coupled with his extensive travel and connections with visual journalists all over the globe,” said Steve Dorsey, SND president.
Edwards, 42, has flown just about one million air miles to 48 countries, 30 US states and two Canadian provinces since he first traveled abroad, when he was 3 months old… but this year’s SND workshop will be his first time in Missouri.
(Full details, in English and en Español)
CLOSED: Register for St. Louis, win a free iPad!
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Only 10 spots remain in the Great SND iPad drawing of 2011: register now for SND STL for your chance to win!
We’ll announce the winner at the workshop. Everyone there will learn how to put it to good use, thanks to our day-long series of mobile and iPad sessions sponsored by the Digital Publishing Alliance.
SND STL will be offering more mobile and tablet focused training than any journalism conference in the country (more than a full day of it from touch interaction design to development to strategy from innovative organizations including Zite, ESPN, The Daily, The Onion, as well as many newspapers and chains including The New York Times, Tribune, Morris, Cox and Freedom). If you are interested in being on the cutting edge of digital, meet us in St. Louis.
7 reasons or more to register for SND STL now
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Register now for SND STL and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win an iPad! Then come to St. Louis and learn all about Mobile Design in a day-long series of sessions held in partnership with the Digital Publishing Alliance. That’s just one reason to register today. Want more? Here’s 7: #1 – TONS
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Meet your 2012 SND officer candidates
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Your candidates for SND officer positions in 2012 are:
For the position of SND president: Jonathon Berlin, Chicago Tribune
For the position of SND vice president: Rob Schneider, Dallas Morning News
For the position of SND secretary/treasurer:
David Kordalski, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer
Mike Rice, Arizona Daily Star
Gabriela Schmidt, Schmidt Media Group
There will be a write-in option for each office. Bios and mission statements from the candidates follow on the break…
A tribute to Gayle Grin in quotes
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Susan Ferguson, Design Editor, The Montreal Gazette: “Gayle is incredibly warm and always giving of her knowledge to the newcomer. When I showed her one of my very first pages as a designer, she politely asked me what my purpose was for applying that funky Photo/Graphic Edge effect to all the photos. When I failed
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