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Behind the World’s Best Designed: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
For the fifth time since 2002, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung was awarded the prize for the “World’s Best-Designed Newspaper” by the Society for News Design. Today we talk with the paper’s esteemed art director Peter Breul.
This kicks off a week of interviews with the visual leaders at SND33′s World’s Best Designed publications, five newspapers and a website, as part of SND’s Year-Long Conversation.
• Read an interview with BostonGlobe.com’s Miranda Mulligan, 2011 World’s Best Designed website. Read more here.
• Coming Tuesday: An interview with The Grid’s Vanessa Wyse
Meet Mizzou’s Theresa Berens: SND’s student designer of the year
Monday, May 7th, 2012
University of Missouri’s Theresa Berens was named Student Designer of the year at 2012 College News Design Contest last month in Columbia, Mo. Theresa is a graduate student studying editorial design. She graduates this month and is looking for a full-time gig in the fall.
The judges observed that her work always goes above and beyond. “She knows when to introduce surprises and fun and explanatory elements. She knows how to take an idea and carry it through an entire section. Her work was the best work we saw in a number of categories.”
Theresa was kind enough to talk with SND about her future plans, what inspires her, the best design advice she’s received and more after the jump.
Want some news you can use? Here are reflections for a College News Design judge Miranda Mulligan.
Here is a list of winners.
Motion graphics: New weapons of visual journalism
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Who doesn’t love a good superhero story? Let’s see, there is Batman, Spiderman, Superman, Super Girl, Super … well, there are actually a lot of them. Take your pick! One thing that they all have in common is weapons or tactics to help them achieve success. In newsrooms everywhere, the weapons and tactics for storytelling
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You voted, here’s the winner! Check out your 33rd Edition cover art
Monday, April 16th, 2012
The masses – and by that I mean 784 of you – have spoken, and entry No. 21, designed by Hugo Sanchez, will grace the cover of the 33rd annual SND Best of News Design book. Congratulations to Hugo and to all the artists who submitted such an incredible array of choices. Cover No. 21
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SND33: World’s Best Designed website: BostonGlobe.com
Friday, April 13th, 2012
A team of top journalists met earlier this year at Ball State to chose the winners in SND’s Best of Digital News Design competition. They came from Madrid, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, London, Washington DC and Chicago.
The judges are: Jonathon Berlin, Chiqui Esteban, Brian Ellcierto, Tyson Evans, Jeremy Gilbert, Jennifer George-Palilonis, Sara Quinn, Joey Marburger, Ryan Mark, Rob Schneider, Will Sullivan, David Wright, Chrys Wu and Ben Wuersching
Leading up to the judging we asked members to submit nominees for the World’s Best Designed Website and apps. After carefully considering that list and those submitted by entries into the SND’s Best of Digital Design competition, the judges have selected one website as this year’s World’s Best Designed for 2011:
That site is the BostonGlobe.com which decisively raised the bar for digital news design with its embrace of responsive design.
Our sincere congratulations to the Globe staff.
- Meet the judges here.
- See the full list of digital winners here.
- Check out a searchable database of the print winners here.
- Read about last year’s World’s Best sites and apps here.
- Read the judges’ overall statement and Special Recognition honors on the jump.
iA’s Oliver Reichstein on secrets, making websites, and “business class” news
Monday, April 9th, 2012
As part of our Year-Long Conversation about design, we talk with Information Architects’ Oliver Reichstein
on keeping design simple, iA’s work on Writer and iPad design and a “business class” on the web, where users could pay to get the junk out of the way. “The more design gets out of your way the more space you have to do with an interface what you want to do. Design works, when you don’t notice it.”
Could a “business class” work where you work? Leave your comments below.
– Read more posts from SND’s Year-Long Conversation here.
Twenty-five infographics lessons from Malofiej 20
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
It was another inspirational and incredible week in Pamplona, Spain. Here were some of the take-aways I took with me. Click on the jump for the Storify page.
Notes from Malofiej 20 speakers: visualization, truth and beauty
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
It’s a packed schedule at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, the site of Malofiej 20. Speakers on the first day focused on data visualization, comprehension of infographic forms, the process of making graphics and more. Here are highlights from some of the sessions. Andrew Vande Moere The tyranny of the pixel Andrew Vande
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Visualizing the story: How El Mundo covered the world economic crisis with infographics
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
As the world economic crisis unfolded, Spain was hit especially hard. The depth and length of the story put a special challenge on visual journalists, to explain and show a complicated, ever-changing story.
Here is how El Mundo covered the story, a model for breaking news infographics, presented here as part of SND’s Year-Long Conversation. Read more Conversation pieces here.
Also, this week, stay tuned to snd.org for coverage of Malofiej,
the annual infographics gathering in Pamplona, Spain, the 20th anniversary of that great event.
Student SND contest coming up
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
The Student Society for News Design contest, hosted by the University of Missouri chapter, is approaching. The deadline is April 9, with judging on April 16. Entries need to have been published between March 16, 2011, and March 15, 2012. We’ve added a couple of categories this year: Infographics portfolio of the year Multimedia/digital designer
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2012 Resolution: February Update from our self-improvers
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
In early January, you were introduced to five visual journalists who volunteered to take part in SND’s Year-Long Conversation. Their goal? To learn new skills that will help prepare them for new challenges that lie ahead in our ever-changing industry — and share their journey with you here at SND.org. Here are their updates for
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Behind Upstatement’s bold, new typography app: Glyphosaurus
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Who doesn’t love the voluptuous curves of a ‘w’ or the stout simplicity of a lower-case ‘l.’ So many wonderful ‘g’s in the world. Agree? Well, have we got the site for you. The folks at Boston’s Upstatement have developed Glyphosaurus, a wonderfully entertaining web app that let’s folks share found typography. They sat down with SND over email and told us about the project as part of our Year-Long Conversation about Design
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Full winners list: SND Best of Digital Design
Monday, March 5th, 2012
A team of top journalists met last month at Ball State to chose the winners in SND’s Best of Digital News Design competition. They came from Madrid, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, London, Washington DC and Chicago. Meet the judges here. The judges pored over nearly 500 entries including overall design, data projects, breaking news,
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Joey Marburger on the Washington Post’s new Politics App
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Last week, The Washington Post launched an iPad app that aggregates all of the Post’s political content into a one-stop-politics-shop, good for your average reader and for the most voracious political junkie. But this app is much more than an aggregator. There are videos, maps, visual representations of the candidates positions and how they’ve shifted over
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The Onion’s design director on iPads, UX, and those miserable looking people in the Onion’s quote-opinion pieces
Monday, February 27th, 2012
How much fun is it to work at the Onion? Turns out, it’s kind of a lot.
Today, as part of SND’s Year-Long Conversation, Veronika Goldberg is the Onion’s Chicago-based design director takes a few minutes to talk with us and tell us. “Everyone is certainly quirky and wonderfully unique. Nothing is off-limits, so unlike most office environments, individuality is encouraged,” Veronika said.
Read our other Year-Long Conversation dispatches here.
SND33 (Digital): Judges issue first Silver award
Saturday, February 25th, 2012
NPR earns first silver award for “Visualizing How a Population Grows to 7 Billion.”
