Posts tagged ‘newspapers’
Plan, reuse, and ‘just say no’: doing more with less
Friday, September 30th, 2011
By Wes Meltzer, Orlando Sentinel When you have to do more with less — and it happens to all of us — it’s easy to fall into the trap of killing ourselves, or doing subpar work. Laura Stanton, of The Washington Post, offers another way. “It all comes down to you and your great ideas,”
Design lessons from 9/11
Friday, September 9th, 2011
What did you learn?
There was stunning photojournalism from the attacks. There were astounding information graphics. There was indelible design. As a visual journalist, what did you learn from 9/11? Share your story.
Lars Pryds shows how “In cold Scandinavia, magazines are hot” at SND STL
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Our next speaker comes to us from the far north for a sizzling session: In cold Scandinavia, magazines are hot Newspapers are struggling to survive, cutting costs and staff – and it shows on the pages. Magazines seems to have more room for experiments, and visuals are part of the fight to get and keep
Celebrating the merits of print in INK
Monday, October 11th, 2010
INK is not about one weekend in Denver. It is about the work we do every day. Our lives, our people and our livelihood. We talk with the architects behind INK — the 40-page, all color news magazine created at the R&D lab during the Denver SND conference as a celebration of print.
(Order your printed copy of INK today!)
Type designer Matthew Carter receives MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Type designer Matthew Carter has been named a MacArthur fellow for 2010. The $500,000 no-strings-attached grant, often referred to as the “genius award,” is given to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”
Designers: Restrain yourself
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Growing up, my mom always told me to KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. And although I should have been slightly offended at my mother calling me stupid, I took her advice to heart. Listening to Julie Elman share her secrets behind a well-designed photo spread, I’m glad I had listened to my mom; turns out,
10 things to do to make newspapers great all the time
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Everyone wants to have a really, really ridiculously good-looking newspaper every day. To get there, magazine design guru Robert Newman recommends to throw away the Wired and ESPN magazines on your desks, replace them with Real Simple, New York Magazine and the New York Post and design your paper like a newsmagazine. Newspapers can start
From Print to Web and Back, with a World’s Best
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Designers from a World’s Best newspaper der Freitag discuss how they approached their print and Web redesign. Keeping the focus on reader interaction and a political debate format, they created stunning products that are easy to navigate and visually engaging.
Breaking out with Russia’s Best Designed
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Svetlana Maximchenko leads her newsroom with one charge: Please do something crazy — break out. When was the last time your boss uttered those words? The editor-in-chief and founder of Akzia newspaper shared an hour of the wealth of print design currently happening in Russia. Her general interest biweekly has won two World’s Best Designed awards
Designing print and online simultaneously… or basically trying to stay sane.
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Newsrooms across the country are facing the same problem: smaller design staffs, more design work to do. However, The Tennessean’s Jeff Glick explained how his newsroom makes it work (and stays sane). “It’s doable. It’s not easy, and you really have to figure out what works for your paper,” he said. The key is management.
Name that logo, a quiz for design obsessives
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Here are 26 distinctive letterforms and four well-known symbols from newspapers and magazines around the world. How many can you name? First correct answer receives a prize from the SND vault.
Q+A with McSweeney’s Panorama staff
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
When McSweeney’s published the San Francisco Panorama in December, many news designers eagerly thumbed through the 300+ page behemoth. Featuring contributions from Stephen King, Chris Ware, Junot Díaz and many other superstars, it was the boldest celebration and embrace of the printed broadsheet format in recent memory.
iStock, therefore I am
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Stock art, once a synonym for lazy design and designers, seems to be everywhere, often used in smart and surprising ways. What explains the recent resurgence?
