Posts tagged ‘Page Design’
Meet your judges for this year’s World’s Best-Designed™
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Judging of the World’s Best-Designed™ newspaper segment of the Best of News Design™ has begun in Syracuse, N.Y. The judges for the other parts of the competition have made their way home (see our previous coverage here). We now have five new judges, all with fresh eyes, ready to review the 240 entries vying for the rarified air of greatness in the newspaper biz known as World’s Best. Click here for a video stream.
And the judges are …
J. Bruce Baumann
Dennis Brack
Miguel Gomez
Lily Lu
Margaret O’Connor
Results: An initial (and unofficial) tally of SND31
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Here now, without further delay, are the unofficial totals from the main competition (the official results will come later — after the World’s Best-Designed™ competition happens and the database of winners can be verified). Check out the top 10 winners, the medal count, and see what comes next…
Top 10 winners*
(From the general competition — categories 2-19 — based on unofficial, early results)
1. Los Angeles Times
2. National Post (Toronto, Canada)
3. The National (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
4. New York Times + New York Times Magazine
5. Gulf News (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
6. St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times*
6. Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer*
7. La Presse (Montreal, Quebec)
8. Washington Post
9. Virginian Pilot
10. The Denver Post
*St. Petersburg Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer were tied with the same number of total winners.
SND31 Winner-meter™: A periodic peek at the best
Monday, February 8th, 2010
This year 10,158 entries received from 374 publications in 42 countries. Throughout the SND 31st edition Best of News Design™ competition weekend we’ll sneak a peek at milestone winners as they’re logged-in and edited for the annual book.
GOLD: Compelling illustrations portray rapists and their victims
Monday, February 8th, 2010
The features judges gave this series of illustrations depicting rapists and their victims a gold medal. They recognized how difficult a topic this is to tackle. Most publications would play it safe, but this one walked the line in tackling this concept with a visceral edge.
GOLD: What happens to our naughty bits as we age
Monday, February 8th, 2010
The graphics judges have awarded a gold medal to Expresso in Lisbon, Portugal, for a non-breaking/features graphic called “Sex ages.” It illuminates the changes that happen to the penis and vagina over 50 years of life.
First gold medals awarded
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
As the snow begins to fall on Day Two of the 31st Best of News Design™ Competition, we’ve learned there were at least 16 silver medals awarded late Saturday night. The first two gold medals of the weekend were both awarded in the photo categories. Congratulations to The New York Times Magazine and The Denver Post for their wins.
Judging brings new perspective for Chicago Tribune editor
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Chuck Burke has been taping up his SND entries and studying the annuals for more than 10 years, but this is his first time in Syracuse at the competition. “I just want to say to all of my friends and acquaintances who have judged before: Thanks, scumbags, for leaving me in the dark about these five particular things, which would have been nice to be told in advance. Not that I would have necessarily believed you anyway…”
Let’s get down to business
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
The business category is full of imaginative solutions to stories without a lot of obvious visual appeal.
More Best of News Design™ questions answered as judging days get closer
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
On the eve of SND’s 31st Annual Best of News Design™ judging, we check in with edition coordinator Mike Rice on the status of the competition and his hopes for the long weekend ahead. The general competition judging starts Saturday at Syracuse University.
World’s Best-Designed Newspaper™ judging occurs the following weekend, with a different set of judges.
Newspapers for everyone
Friday, January 29th, 2010
As more and more people get their news online, it’s easy to think that the newspaper is about to disappear.
But competition doesn’t automatically create obsolescence. It creates opportunity, and forces enhancement and focus. When you don’t have to do everything, you can concentrate on what you do really well. It is only when a medium’s inherent qualities are superceded in pretty much every way by its successors, that it is in danger. And that has not happened for newspapers.
Don’t worry: Newsprint will survive.
Haiti’s disaster: Regarding the pain of others
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Tell the truth. Bear witness. Explain. Connect. As visual journalists, these abstract ideas never seem more real than when we’re confronted with the unreality of a disaster on the scale of the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath.
Finding some heroes of the “Zeros” coverage
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
End-of-the-year issues are a beloved institution in our business. Small wonder: they bring together two of our favorite things – lists and sweeping generalizations. So it’s a bit surprising that the end of the decade called variously the aughts and the uh-ohs has produced so few really special special issues. Let’s take a look.
Video: About that list of 25 moments…
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Explore the videos from 25 Influential Moments in News Design, the oral history of the Society at 25 as told by the founding generation of information design professionals — with thoughtful insights on what shaped the craft.
O Globo, un diario de éxitos
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Léo Tavejnhansky durante su charla “O Globo a todo color” dio a los presentes un paseo por los 14 años del diario desde que se implemento el proyecto gráfico de Milton Glaser. Este proyecto le significó al diario y a su equipo de trabajo decenas de premios a nivel nacional e internacional.
The Russian Newspaper Design Competition
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
While the Chicago meetup was taking place at Tribune Towers, halfway around the world there was another SND event happening in Moscow — the Russian Newspaper Design Competition.
No. 3: Redesigns roll out at a stunningly fast pace
Monday, December 29th, 2008
2008 in Review: As the economic footing for U.S. newspapers began crumbling even faster in 2008, it seemed something else was gaining speed as well: the pace of redesigns.
