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April 9: Help SND pick out the cover of its next annual award book, round two

Last week, the Society for News Design asked us to help it choose which of 46 proposed covers for year’s collected volume of award-winning visual journalism would become finalists. Now, the society is back again. From those 46 wonderful covers, only eight remain. And here they are:         There’s some very inventive thinking here. Rush over to [...]

April 3: Help SND pick out the cover of its next annual award book

The Society for News Design is neck-deep into editing and assembling this year’s collection of award-winning visual journalism. Problem is: The society asked members to illustrate possible covers for that book. And they got waaay too many fabulous cover ideas from which to choose. How about these?   Mmm. Nice and clean. Or how about these?   Ooooh. Classy! Or [...]

March 24: More about my week teaching here in Abuja, Nigeria (1)

First of all, I’m sorry I didn’t get anything posted Friday about the work we’re doing here in Nigeria. I edited down a few pictures Friday evening but when I tried to upload them to my blog, the ACES site went down. I figured I had somehow crashed the entire ACES operation. Instead, it turned out to be a technical [...]

Feb. 8: SND judges honor first Best of Show winner in ten years (1)

The last time the Society for News Design’s annual competition resulted in a Best of Show winner was 2002: The New York Times won the honor for its coverage of the events and aftermath of 9/11. Meet this year’s Best of Show: Svenska Dagbladet — Stockholm, Sweeden’s third-largest daily. The story that produced this amazing edition was that tragic, two-pronged [...]

Feb. 7: An accusation of visual plagiarism from last year’s SND contest (1)

The graphic in the center of this double-page spread from La Stampa of Torino, Italy — reviewing how trapped miners in Chile were rescued in October of 2010 — won an Award of Excellence last year for breaking news graphics in the annual Society for News Design competition. You’ll find it at the bottom of page 205 of SND32, the [...]

Nov. 25, 2011: Black Friday sale on SND workshop registration

Today is Black Friday, and you know what that means: The Society for News Design is offering $100 off of its registration fee for next October’s annual workshop in Cleveland. For a limited time only, registration is only $250 for professional members and $200 for faculty and students. For more pitches, go here and here. To stop reading about it [...]

Oct. 6, 2011: How to get a world-class illustration in your newspaper

How would you like to run an original, custom-drawn illustration, in your newspaper, by Andrea Levy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer?   Or how about a cool piece by Chris Morris, also of the Plain Dealer? Or one by Ted Crow? Or Stacy Innerst? Or Michael Hogue? Here’s your chance. These famed editorial illustrators and 22 more are donating one [...]

Oct. 4, 2011: Watch the promotional video for next year’s SND workshop in Cleveland

Now that the Society for News Design workshop in St. Louis is but a distant memory, thoughts have already turned to the next workshop in Cleveland, next October 11-13. This promotional video debuted Saturday night at the awards banquet. Check it out… The video was directed by Plain Dealer illustrator Andrea Levy and Dale Omori, deputy director of photography and [...]

Oct. 3, 2011: SND/STL: Tim Harrower’s “News Designer Blues”

I’m still recovering from my trip to the Society for News Design conference. I gave up my seat from Detroit to Norfolk yesterday afternoon so a young family could get home. As a result, I didn’t get back until very late. Also, I acquired a bad case of dry-eye Friday night at a party after the awards banquet. Claire Regan [...]

Oct. 2, 2011: SND/STL: A few stray thoughts on the way home

I’m on my way back home from the Society for News Design workshop, which was held this past few days in St. Louis. I posted quite a bit Friday and Saturday. I have a few stray thoughts and notes left over. So let me get them out of my system. Remember when I said to collect business cards? I really [...]

Oct. 1, 2011: SND/STL: The many faces of Karl Gude

At this very moment, I’m sitting in Room A/B here at the Renaissance Grand, listening to one of my favorite speakers ever, Karl Gude of Michigan State University. Karl is sharing selections of his enormous collection of free data visualization tools. He says he’ll create a web page with the links from today’s show. But his entire collection is housed [...]

Oct. 1, 2011: SND/STL: My big takeway from the web design session

Sitting in a session by Tito Bottita and Mike Swartz — of Boston-based web design firm Upstatement — called “Finding the Web Designer Within.” Here are two consecutive slides from the presentation: Cool stuff. If these guys are looking to make converts, they came to the right place with the right message. Check out the entire presentation here. — UPDATE: [...]

Oct. 1, 2011: SND/STL: Talking about design ‘hubs’ (3)

“They’re not hubs,” says Gannett Nashville Design Studio chief Jeff Glick. They’re places where creative visual journalism is happening, he says. “They really are studios.” Speaking on this morning’s panel were Jeff and Kate Marymont from the Gannett design studios… …LaToya Smith of the Chicago Tribune, Jorge Vidrio of the Scripps central desk and Dean Lockwood of the San Antonio [...]

Oct. 1, 2011: SND/STL: My Friday presentation on reinventing yourself (2)

Yes, I spoke Friday morning. Yes, I have pictures. No, I didn’t blog about it. I got busy meeting folks and shaking hands and networking and then next thing I knew, it was time to crash. But you might remember the issue: I was asked here to speak on the topic of reinventing yourself. I knew right off the bat [...]

Oct. 1, 2011: SND/STL Notes for Saturday morning

Word is out: A lot of people stayed out very late last night. So if you want to be annoying this morning, be bright and cheerful. And loud. And take lots of close-up pictures of people. — COMFORT Also, buzz Friday was that it was so cold around the venue. I don’t know about that. I found myself sweating a [...]

Sept. 30, 2011: SND/STL: Make sure you visit the annual silent auction

The proceeds go to the SND Foundation to pay for scholarships and grants for students to attend things like this very event. Here’s how the annual silent auction works: Folks donate items. You check ‘em over and bid on them via a piece of paper. The winner gets the item. It’s that easy. There was a lot of great stuff [...]

Sept. 30, 2011: SND/STL: Kicking off with Laura Stanton

I had the honor for filling in for the missing sherpa this morning for the day’s first print visual journalism speaker, Laura Stanton of the Washington Post. As I told the room here: I have very few infographics heroes left in the business. Laura is one of them. Even as I type this, she’s showing us a wonderful collection of [...]

Sept. 30, 2011: SND/STL: Notes for Friday morning

Good morning, all. I don’t know about you guys, but I found Friday exhausting but exhilarating. The next two days are going to be a blur for all of us, I promise you. Things you’ll want to know about this morning… — DID YOU SET YOUR WATCH OR CELL PHONE CLOCK? Here in St. Louis, we’re on Central Time. If [...]

Sept. 30, 2011: SND/STL: Folks looking to hire here in St. Louis (1)

While it seems like the entire industry is shedding people right and left, there are folks who are looking to hire. Some of them are here at the Society for News Design workshop in St. Louis this week. And some couldn’t make it. A few of them asked for a little help. Naturally, the blog is pleased to play matchmaker… [...]

Sept. 30, 2011: SND/STL: This is why I love coming to Society for News Design workshops

Check this out: Two of my favorite people in the world: On the left is the award-winning Ryan Huddle, formerly of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate and now with the Boston Globe. Longtime blog readers will remember all the cool features packages he masterminded over the past few years. On the right is the award-winning Adonis Durado of the Times of [...]

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