Archive for the ‘News’ Category
SND33 Best in Show: Svenska Dagbladet’s breaking news coverage of Norway attacks
Monday, February 6th, 2012
For the first time since 2001, 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
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Angle named 34th edition coordinator; Smith to chair 35th
Monday, February 6th, 2012
After the regular updates were given about how this year’s competition is proceeding, and instructions were given for the afternoon, we were treated to a bit of breaking news during today’s lunch break. SND competition director C. Marshall Matlock announced that Melissa Angle will be the coordinator for the Society’s 34th edition in 2013. He
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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.
Apply now for SND Foundation internship, scholarship and travel grants
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The SND Foundation has three programs for students to further their education and experience — and one opportunity for a publication to receive a paid intern. Don’t miss the deadlines to apply.
Live-streaming video of Syracuse Student Symposium 12:30-4 p.m. Feb. 3
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Thanks for joining us for the 2012 Syracuse Student Symposium. We’ll have presentations by Jonathon Berlin, Richard Johnson and Adonis Durado today. You can watch all three presentations live on video here. You can also follow along and participate with our live blog. Send in your questions through Cover It Live or send them to @SND on Twitter. If you’re tweeting about the program, use #sndsyracuse in your tweets.
Help pick the web’s best sites, apps and widgets: Enter SND’s best of Digital News Design
Monday, January 30th, 2012
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).
Start-up lessons: A homicide site in DC
Friday, January 27th, 2012
What can you learn about design and development from a site about homicides? A lot, it turns out as we see in this dispatch in SND’s Year-Long Conversation about design.
International speakers for Syracuse Student Symposium
Monday, January 16th, 2012
We have an excellent line-up of speakers and topics for the annual pre-judging workshop in Syracuse sponsored by the Society for News Design Foundation. Jonathon Berlin of the Chicago Tribune, Richard Johnson of the National Post and Adonis Durado of the Times of Oman and and Al Shabiba will all present. We’ll also have critiques of student work and an awesome door prize: one free professional registration to the SND annual workshop in Cleveland, Ohio Oct. 11-13.
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:
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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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.
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
Honoring creativity that sells papers in Middle East
Monday, November 14th, 2011
Next week in the United Arab Emirates, the Best of News Design exhibition will open at The American University of Sharjah in the College of Architecture, Art and Design gallery. The exhibit will feature award-winning work from the MENA region, including The Gulf News, The National, Al Bayan, and Times of Oman. In advance of the exhibit Region 20 SND director Douglas Okasaki talks with industry leaders about the past, present and future roles design has played in the region’s papers.
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.
