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SND34 Day 1: Live coverage
Saturday, February 9th, 2013
Live text, photos and video from Syracuse University and the 34th Edition of the Society for News Design’s “Best of News Design” creative competition.
Video: Ain’t snow stopping SND 34!
Saturday, February 9th, 2013
Competition coordinator Melissa Angle and the crew have the tables set for SND34. They’re ready to rock the judging, starting at 8 a.m. Keep an eye here or on Facebook for updates throughout the weekend. And we’ll be tweeting @snd with the hashtag #snd34.
Live: Syracuse Student Symposium
Friday, February 8th, 2013
We’re coming to you live from Room 141, Newhouse 3, in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers, so follow along. If you’ve got questions for a speaker, ask them in the CoveritLive window below or use Twitter hashtag #SND34. Live video for mobile from Ustream
Can’t make it to the free Syracuse Student Symposium Feb. 8? Oh, yes, you can!
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
We’re streaming live from the Syracuse Student Symposium! Streaming starts Friday, Feb. 8 at 1 p.m. EST, and runs until 5 p.m. Watch it here: http://ustre.am/2h1J We have an excellent lineup of speakers and topics for the annual student workshop, and it’s all available live from Room 141, Newhouse 3, in the S.I. Newhouse School of
Start today — learn to code
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
You’ve read the posts, you’ve silenced the haters, and you’re ready to jump into code. There are thousands of online and in-person resources to help you get started. A lot of people don’t know where to begin — and there’s no right or wrong starting point — but here’s an overview of what worked for
Holiday sale: Sign up now for a limited-time $100 discount on this fall’s SND workshop in Louisville
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Lately, Black Friday seems like the closest thing yet to the Zombie Apocalypse. People’s brains are overpowered by a near-deadly withdrawal of tryptophan, gravy and wine, and then they swarm en masse to retailers’ doors hoping to fight and shove their way to a $4 toaster.
This holiday season, you can avoid becoming a victim of the madness and knock a couple things off your shopping list from the cozy comfort of your recliner.
We’re knocking $100 off the standard registration price for SND Louisville. That’s only $295. This is a great gift for a friend, loved one, or yourself. What you’ll learn at SND’s Workshop will last longer than any $4 toaster. The Student and Educator price will drop to $200.
So to sum up, don’t make a bad bet and ruin your Thanksgiving weekend by living out a scene from “28 Days Later.” Relax, save money and give a gift that will keep on giving. Register now!
Doug Wilson on the linotype machine, storytelling, and 1886
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Doug Wilson is a designer. He’s also a filmmaker. And a letterpress lover.
Wilson is the producer/director of a documentary “Linotype: The Film,” that explores the “eighth wonder of the world” and how it revolutionized the printing industry. Wilson says the linotype was like the “Twitter of 1886” — understanding its impact crucial to our understanding today’s news cycle.
Wilson spoke with us as part of our Year-Long Conversation about design.
Looking for more inspiration? Sign up for SND’s annual workshop in Cleveland here.
One theme per week. One story per day. All about New York.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
One theme per week. One story per day, told in the medium best-suited for that story. Oh, and only about New York City.
No breaking news. No big headlines. No jam-packed news website front pages.
Sound like a dream job?
That’s the basic vision of Narratively, a new digital platform led by Noah Rosenberg, a 29 year-old journalist from Brooklyn. As a mix of text, images, graphics and interactives, the site is slated to launch later this month. Rosenberg and others on the team launched a Kickstarter campaign near the beginning of August to raise some startup cash and they’re about 80 percent of the way to the $50,000 funding goal with less than a week to go.
Rosenberg spoke with us as part of our Year-Long Conversation about design.
Looking for more inspiration? Sign up for SND’s annual workshop in Cleveland here.
Countdown to Cleveland: Sign up now for a weekend of inspiration, ideas and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Friday, August 31st, 2012
You have a little more than a month to make plans to join the best and brightest visual journalists in the world as they descend upon Cleveland for SNDCLE, the 24th Annual SND Workshop and Exhibition. On the menu, inspiration, tech training and a chance to get a career spark in a beautiful city that’s an easy car trip from virtually everywhere in the U.S.
The workshop is Oct. 11-13. Register here.
Register for the special hands-on iPad graphics garage workshop here.
Check out the new SNDCle site here.
And the officer candidates are …
Monday, August 27th, 2012
Your candidates for SND officer positions in 2013 are (from top left to right): president: Rob Schneider, Dallas Morning News; vice president: David Kordalski, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer; secretary/treasurer: Luis Chumpitaz Gonzales, Information Graphic Director, Al Bayan, Dubai, UAE; Adonis Durado, Designer, Times of Oman, Al Shabiba; Lee Steele, Design Editor, Connecticut Post
Bios and mission statements on the jump. Voting will begin Thursday, Sept. 13, and will be conducted electronically (SND members will get an email). Voting is open to all members and ends at midnight on Thursday, Oct. 11; results will be announced at the SND Annual Workshop and Exhibition in Cleveland, on Friday, Oct. 12.
Artist and writer Austin Kleon on stealing, index cards, upright pianos and the obits
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012
In his books, posts and notes writer and artist Austin Kleon has created an amazing dialogue about art, creativity and making things in our webby world. “I’ve always looked up to artists who don’t hoard their secrets and are open about their processes,” he said. When it comes to news, Kleon said he subscribes to Sturgeon’s Law: “90 percent of everything is crap.”
Kleon took a few minutes to talk with SND as part of our Year-Long Conversation about design.
PHOTOS: Scenes surrounding the Olympic Games
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Taylor Bussick, Valerie Carnevale, Bobby Ellis, Corey Ohlenkamp and Emily Theis are among the 40 students from Ball State University who travelled to London for the school’s immersive-learning program, BSU at the Games. For those of us who have been following the Olympics from home, we’ve relied, in part, on stunning photography to take us from our
Just before London, a look back at Beijing
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
China wowed the world with their performance at the 2008 Olympic opening ceremonies. Their newspapers matched that performance in their own way. Magnificent combinations of text, visuals and innovative formats were at work during the Beijing olympics as the papers kept pace with the action in the stadium. As part of the year long conversation, SND talked to 2 of the award-winning Chinese designers about their coverage of the Beijing Olympics.
The view from London: Three days before the Games, city and its newsrooms are abuzz
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
This week, we Brits are waiting for our third and final injection of happiness. Two days after Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France, the sun is finally shining and the capital is hot. With 3 days to go, most Londoners are now giddy. Although in most newsrooms across the city, designers, developers and the odd director are now going gaga.
Check out snd.org/conversation for more coverage of the London Games.
Talking Olympics infographics with Jan Schwochow (plus check out the Olympics issue of IN GRAPHICS)
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
The stunning visual work of IN GRAPHICS creates that unique humbling, inspiring feeling that makes us all want to be better storytellers. This “magazine for visual people” out of Berlin, Germany has raked in the awards and accolades. But to hold a copy is to embrace the craft of printing and experience the skill and touch of visual storytelling at its best. The magazine comes out twice a year and focuses on timely issues on a series of spreads. Read more here. Editor and Publisher Jan Schwochow took a few minutes to talk with SND about the new Olympics issue.
This interview is part of SND’s Year-Long Conversation about design. Read more about the Olympics and other conversation pieces here.
Q&A with Joe Ward: Behind the scenes at The New York Times, as they plan Olympic graphics
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
The Olympics are a bit like Christmas for a graphics department: strong visuals, fast data, high concepts. Plus everyone knows the Games are coming, so it’s easy to make a plan and use the opportunity to try out new ways of storytelling. In a little over a week we’ll be able to check out the storytelling from the powerhouse graphics department at The New York Times, an incredible group of journalists and artists who are on a 5-year streak of wowing the web and visual journalism world. Sports Graphics Editor Joe Ward, who will be London for the Games, took a few moments to talk with us about the Times’ plans.
This interview is part of SND’s Year-Long Conversation about design. Read more about the Olympics and other conversation pieces here.
