SND kicked off the 2019 workshop with a party on April 4 at the beautiful Chicago Cultural Center, toasting Lifetime Achievement Award winners Susan Mango Curtis and Tim Harrower and announcing the big winners of the society’s Best of News Design and Best of Digital Design competitions. (Video by Stephanie Sokol)
First draft of SND Chicago history, Slack-style
SND’s annual workshops are run by an army of volunteers, and one of the perks of the job is the opportunity to take over the society’s social media accounts, along with the SND.org blog, to document the action. At the 2019 workshop in Chicago, the volunteer team organized its observations in SND’s Slack workspace, creating […]
The Inclusion Challenge in Photojournalism: Working Toward Solutions
Written by Lee Catherine Collins, Ole Miss SND hosts a panel session, The Inclusion Challenge in photojouranlism, from right to left, Susan Mango, Akili-Casundria Ramsess, Nicole Frugé, and Kainaz Amaria come together to discuss the under-representation of women and people of color in photojournalism. This afternoon’s panel on photojournalism featured Kainaz Amaria, Nicole Frugé, Akili […]
Alberto Cairo: How we Lie to Ourselves with Charts
Written by Aleaha Smith, Michigan State During the second session of the day, author, infographic specialist and freelancer Alberto Cairo challenges us to look deeper as we design and interpret infographics. “We need to talk a bit less about how to make visualizations and infographics and more about how we reason about them,” Cairo explains. He implores […]
Thinking about a Design System for Responsible Publishing
Written by Lee Catherine, University of Mississippi Rishad Patel from The Splice Newsroom filled our minds with the possibilities of an innovative, responsible framework for news that is still in the early stages. This idea stemmed from Patel’s desire to create something – a framework, system, maybe a manifesto? No. Patel refers to his big […]
The Importance of Responsive Storytelling on Every Screen
Written by Aleaha Reneé Smith, Michigan State University Due to a shift in technological methods, many journalistic outlets have begun to search for ways of incorporating visuals within their daily posts and stories. Washington Post Design Editor Matthew Callahan and Graphics Assignment Editor Danielle Rindler have pushed for cross-divisional collaboration within the post to do […]
SND Chicago: Student Sessions
Design Thinking, Panel Discussions, and Portfolio Reviews, oh my! Written by Audriana Gibson, Michigan State University We are starting #SNDChicago off right. As many as 40 students or more gathered to gain insight on the innovative process dubbed “Design Thinking,” presented by Northwestern University’s Joe Germuska of Knight Lab. Separated into four groups, students collaborated with […]
Ryan Sparrow Joins SND Executive Committee
I am happy to announce the appointment of Ryan Sparrow to the Society for News Design’s Executive Committee as the SND Programs representative. Ryan is the chair of SND’s Best of Digital Design competition, which has continued to grow under his guidance. As Lecturer at Ball State University, where he has been apart of the highly recognized […]
SND Chicago: The Type Workshop
#SNDChicago started off with a showcase of type mastery with type experts Roger Black, Eduardo Danilo and Lucas Czarnecki. The speaker spent the day with participants unearthing headline schedules from the 20th century, looking at how brands can leverage typography in a design system, and discovering ways to use variable fonts now. Eduardo Danilo, of […]
Accolades: Comments, tributes to 2019 Lifetime honoree Tim Harrower
Related: “Saluting Tim Harrower, 2019 SND Lifetime Award recipient” CHICAGO — Tim Harrower was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award — the Society for News Design’s highest honor — Thursday, April 4, 2019, at the opening reception and awards of the organization’s 40th annual workshop in Chicago at the Chicago Cultural Center. TRACY COLLINS Director of the USA TODAY […]
Saluting Tim Harrower, 2019 SND Lifetime Award recipient
CHICAGO — Tim Harrower was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award — the Society for News Design’s highest honor — Thursday, April 4, 2019, at the opening reception and awards of the organization’s 40th annual workshop in Chicago at the Chicago Cultural Center. “A generation of designers used Tim’s handbook as a roadmap through the quickly […]
World’s Best winners in print and digital honored at SND41 opening reception
CHICAGO — The Society for News Design on Thursday announced three World’s Best-Designed™ Newspapers — La Nación (Argentina), The Sunday Times (United Kingdom) and The New York Times (United States) — and one World’s Best-Designed™ winner from the digital design competition — Reuters — at the opening reception of its 41st annual workshop, which convened […]
2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards: Susan Mango Curtis and Tim Harrower
Susan Mango Curtis and Tim Harrower will receive the Society for News Design Lifetime Achievement Award.
Announcing SND Chicago 2019
SND is partnering with Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Sessions will be held at the downtown Medill campus and the neighboring Swissotel from April 4-6, 2019.
Meet the SND Hong Kong speakers
Hong Kong’s inaugural SND Infographic Summit kicks off on April 13, 2018. It is already a success with just a few seats remaining for the summit and the April 14-15 workshop completely sold out. SND are grateful to the sponsors South China Morning Post and The University of Hong Kong for lending their premises. SND […]
Mario Garcia at #SNDNYC: ‘Stop lamenting what was, and start celebrating what is’
By Stephanie Hays Mario Garcia, joking that he was the oldest person in the building at SNDNYC, on Saturday offered a sweeping take on the evolution of news design and explained why he’s excited about the present and the future of the field. Garcia, the CEO of GarciaMedia and veteran of more than 700 design […]