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Muhammad Ali: How We Covered His Death

Blog, Featured, News June 10, 2016June 12, 2016 Josh Crutchmer 2 Comments

A collection of pages and other work from around the world off of the passing of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

Cracked Hat: The non-sports fan behind the James portrait — and a few dozen others

Blog, Featured, News July 14, 2014July 14, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 1 Comment

In early 2013, I was looking for an illustrator to draw a portrait of Bob Dylan for the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s annual Minnesota Profile. At the time, I had a limited experience with the market, so I reached out to Los Angeles Times AME Michael Whitley and sought his advice. I asked for a list […]

Wallen: All-or-nothing attacks discourage intelligent risk-taking

Commentary, Featured July 14, 2014July 14, 2014 Paul Wallen 12 Comments

The New York Times’ SportsSaturday cover, which featured a list of NBA transactions, intending to highlight LeBron James’ return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, was met with a fury of debate across social media platforms. Especially within the SND community.

Schneider: A design that reduces a story to one fact puts incredible pressure on that fact

Commentary, Featured July 13, 2014July 14, 2014 Rob Schneider 3 Comments

The New York Times’ SportsSaturday cover, which featured a list of NBA transactions, intending to highlight LeBron James’ return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, was met with a fury of debate across social media platforms. Especially within the SND community.

60 Hours in Cleveland: The Plain Dealer’s LeBron Section

Blog, Featured, News, Uncategorized July 12, 2014July 13, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 10 Comments

This post is not about me. I have been design and graphics editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer since May 19 — by happenstance seven weeks before LeBron James announced his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers on July 11. I replaced Emmet Smith, who was in the same chair in 2010 when James left the […]

Celebration, consternation, resignation

Blog, Featured July 11, 2014July 12, 2014 Kyle Ellis 0 Comments

A peek at Saturday’s Plain Dealer, featuring news of LeBron James’ return to the National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers.

Best of Sports Design 2013: Sports Designer of the Year

Blog, Featured, News June 3, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 1 Comment

Best of Sports Design 2013 hits its crescendo with the announcement of 2013’s Sports Designer of the Year. Sports Designer of the Year 2013 from Rich Boudet on Vimeo. Congratulations! As a reminder, all of BOSD2013 can be found here, and stay tuned this week for a complete wrapup of the competition.

BOSD2013 Editors’ Choice: Covers

Blog, Competitions, Featured, News May 7, 2014May 19, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 0 Comments

Best of Sports Design 2013: Editors’ Choice covers.

BOSD2013 Editors’ Choice: Cover Stories

Blog, Competitions, Featured, News May 6, 2014May 7, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 0 Comments

Best of Sports Design 2013: Editors’ Choice results in the cover stories category.

The Reliability of Consequence

Blog, Featured, News May 2, 2014May 7, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 13 Comments

This is a post about journalism, about headlines, about newspaper design, and about consequences. I want to discuss the sports cover of Thursday’s Oklahoman.

BOSD2013 Editors’ Choice: Breaking News and Special Coverage

Blog, Competitions, Featured, News May 1, 2014May 7, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 0 Comments

Best of Sports Design 2013: Editors’ Choice results in the breaking news and special coverage category.

BOSD2013 Editors’ Choice: Inside Pages

Blog, Competitions, Featured, News April 30, 2014May 7, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 0 Comments

Best of Sports Design 2013: Editors’ Choice results in the inside pages category.

BOSD2013 Editors’ Choice: Photo Page, Sports Illustration

Blog, Competitions, Featured, News April 29, 2014May 7, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 0 Comments

Best of Sports Design 2013: Editors’ Choice results in the photo page, sports illustration category.

Best of Sports Design 2013: Call For Entries

Blog, Competitions, Featured, News February 17, 2014March 6, 2014 Josh Crutchmer 4 Comments

Gather your best sports work of 2013 as SND is partnering with SportsDesigner for the second year to bring you this competition.

Behind the Boston Globe’s postseason Red Sox coverage

Featured, Newspapers October 15, 2013 Katie Myrick Parks 1 Comment

Before lead sports designer Luke Knox heads to the Boston Globe graphics department as a full-time graphic artist, we asked him to share some of their pages from the Red Sox’ World Series run.

A look at a weekend of Cardinals’ coverage in the Post-Dispatch

Featured, Newspapers October 14, 2013 Katie Myrick Parks 0 Comments

The St. Louis Cardinals are two games up in the NLCS against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with game three tonight in LA, so we asked the team at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to share some of their weekend pages.

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