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SNDCLT kicks off — follow along

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The Society for News Design’s 39th annual workshop has kicked off in Charlotte, N.C. with an opening reception at the U.S. National Whitewater Center.

Students spent the pre-conference day at the offices of American City Business Journals, hearing from pros and getting design critiques. Others attended a strategy session — Think Before You Make — to hone their problem solving skills in a hands-on day led by the team at Boston-based Upstatement.

Want to follow all the action? The special #SNDCLT subsite is here. That’s a place to find all the action over the next couple of days.

Here are some other tips, whether you are still making your way to Charlotte or just trying to navigate the (packed) schedule.

FROM THE AIRPORT

After relaxing in one of the famed rocking chairs at Charlotte Douglas International, the easiest way to get to the Sheraton Hotel at 555 S. McDowell St. — or anywhere in Uptown (we call downtown Uptown in Charlotte) — is by cab. There’s a $25 flat rate from the airport to Uptown. You also can use Uber or Lyft, with pickup at Zone D in the Arrivals area for ride-sharing services.

GETTING YOUR BADGE

You can pick up your workshop badge outside the Carolina Ballroom, located through the main lobby of the Sheraton Hotel. You need your badge to get into all SND Charlotte events. The desk will open again on Thursday morning at 8 a.m.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE APP

Everyone has received an email invite to our workshop schedule app, which is powered by Sched.com. You can also visit sndclt2017.sched.com to create your schedule, leave feedback about sessions, and sign up for seat-limited sessions. If you did not receive an invite to Sched, check your spam/junk/clutter folder. If you still don’t have an invite, email Jon/Steve/Kyle for help.

MISCELLANEOUS

Some other things to consider:

  • Silent Auction, sponsored by Hoefler& Co.: This SND workshop tradition benefits the SND Foundation, which awards travel grants and scholarships to students. Please think about bringing an item to donate, and some cash to bid.
  • Fun Run: Bring your sneakers for a quick jog, or a longer run, through Charlotte’s greenway on Saturday morning at 8 a.m.

FOLLOW ALONG

Not attending the workshop this year? Follow along at home. Our student newsroom will be providing coverage of every session. Follow coverage on social media: #SNDCLT


Introducing SND39 Coordinator Chris Rukan

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SND’s print competition committee officially welcomed Chris Rukan of the Washington Post as the coordinator for the 39th Best of News Design Creative Competition, to be held in February 2018 in St. Petersburg. Rukan will be tasked with bringing in the judges for the competition and leading the panel in its three-day judging.

Chris Rukan is an art director at the Washington Post, working primarily on the Outlook section. Over two decades he’s worked up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States — from New England to South Florida — as a designer, art director, editor and reporter.
Chris can be reached via e-mail any time (chris.rukan at washpost dot com).

Best of News Design: SND38 World’s Best-Designed™ Newspapers

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The Society for News Design is delighted to announce the two winners of World’s Best Designed Newspaper. Entries were evaluated on writing, visual storytelling, use of resources, execution, photography, headlines and “voice” – as well as overall design.

Congratulations to the two World’s Best print winners from SND38:

Die Zeit

   

           

From the judges:
“Die Zeit was just exceptional in every way. I’m finding it hard to find any fault in this paper. From the typography, to the picture editing, illustrations, photographs, the scale in particular is the thing that really is exploited by these guys. The thing that I’m sure we are all massively impressed with is the way they are taking a very sort of traditional authoritative paper with a serious breath of coverage but they are having fun with the design. It gives the reader a really lovely experience. There is intelligence in the design choices but it’s entertaining. It feels like they’re having a lot of fun in exploiting its page size. I think for us judges, the thing we were really looking forward to this year is seeing how does a newspaper stand out in this terribly difficult space of delivering newspapers and I think Die Zeit absolutely nailed that.”

From the judges:

“We felt that this paper had an amazing amount of energy, enthusiasm and cover to cover design from the first page to the last page. It was compelling, it pulled us in to work through page after page to really enjoy the pacing and in the most positive sense, the aggression in the way that they designed the pages. There is a voice to the newspaper. The paper is typographically very sophisticated. Their use of white space takes the density out of longer stories in a way that it beguiles the reader to dig into the content. The picture editing is flawless, crops are magnificently done, the illustration use is absolutely spot on and the color use is perfect. Lots of contrast in this paper, the dark type and the dark rules counter balance with white space in a real sense of grid. There’s a purpose to this paper.”

Announcing the Best of Student Design winners

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The 18th annual Best of Student Design competition is in the books, recognizing work from around the world done at student newspaper or magazine, as well as classroom work. View the winning works here. Congratulations to all the winners.

The first place winners:

Front Page Design: Sacha Lusk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sports Design: Jiabing Song, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Features Design: Aslak Elias Kelkka, Next, Copenhagen Technical
Special Sections: Matthew Ryan, Ohio University
Magazine Cover: Victoria Price, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Magazine Spread: Aslak Elias Kelkka, Next, Copenhagen Technical
Alt Story Form: Sophie Johnson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Art & Illustration: Alex Kostiw, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Photo Story Design: Alex Wozniczka, University of Missouri
Infographics: Zhizhou Wang, Columbia University
Promotions & Advertising: Alex Runnion, Loyola University, Chicago
Standalone Media: Lisa Dzera, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Digital Storytelling: Anastasiia Nazarova, Tomsk State University
World’s Best Designed Student News Site: www.universitytimes.ie, Trinity College Dublin
Best Designed Student Newspaper: F Newsmagazine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Student Designer of the Year: Christina Sonet, Next, Copenhagen Technical

Donald Trump’s 100 days in office portrayed in cartoons

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US President Donald Trump just hit the 100 days in office milestone.

As a way of gauging if he met the ambitious goals he had set for the period, the Society for News Design and the Danish newspaper Politiken invited cartoonists from all over the world to create cartoons that addressed this question: “How did Donald Trump manage his first 100 days as president?”  Invitation here

All news organizations that participated in this project have access to the entire cartoon’s catalog and are allowed to publish any or all of them in print and/or online as a shared copyright.

The response was overwhelming: 71 cartoonists in 37 nations participated. 46 media brands are represented.

“We see a number of amazing caricatures of an already defined caricature. It is the power of good and evil and the wildest hairstyle ever”. Søren Nyeland, Design Editor, Politiken

This was not a competition, but rather a clever way to show how Trump’s first milestone was viewed around the globe. Participants were free to submit previously drawn cartoons of their choice, or they could draw one specifically for the project.

The cartoonists were instructed not to turn the opportunity into pro- or anti-Trump propaganda; instead they were asked to bring wit and political insight through their work. Most cartoons use humor to make a point, while others give a sharp, creative and intelligent edge to the current political situation. Of course, Trump’s outsized personality and features were magnified delightfully.

Thanks to all the participants, cartoonists, publications and editors for making this Trump 100-day cartoon project a triumph!

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PARTICIPANTS:

ARGENTINA
La Nación
Cartoonists: Alfredo Sábat, Alejandro

AUSTRALIA
Fairfax Media
(The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Age, The Sunday Age, The Australian Financial Review
Cartoonist: Simon Letch and Matt Davidson

The Age
Cartoonist: Ron Tandberg

AUSTRIA
Kurier
Cartoonist: Michael Pammesberger

BRAZIL
http://www.amorimcartoons.com.br/
Cartoonist: Carlos Amorim

EBA
Cartoonist: Ary Moraes Filho

BELGIUM
Het Nieuwsblad
Cartoonist: Marec

BULGARIA
Prass Press
Cartoonist: Alla & Chavdar

BULGARIA
SEGA
Cartoonist: Christo Komarnitski

CANADA
Toronto Star
Cartoonist: Theo Moudakis

CHILE
El Mercurio
Cartoonist: Francisco Javier Olea

CHINA
Hubei Daily
Cartoonist: Xueting Wu

South China Morning Post
Cartoonist: Adolfo Arranz

COSTA RICA
Mecho/Crhoy.co
Cartoonist: Luis Demetrio Calvo Solís
 
CROATIA
24sata
Cartoonist: Nikola Plecko, Nik Titanik

DENMARK
www.majribergaard-illustrationer.dk
Cartoonist: Maj Ribergård

Politiken
Cartoonist: Roald Als, Philip Ytournel, Mette Dreyer, Anne-Marie Steen Petersen

Berlingske
Cartoonist: Lars Andersen

EL SALVADOR
El Diario de Hoy
Cartoonist: RUZ og Roberto Santos

FINLAND
Helsinki Sanomat
Cartoonist: Ville Tietäväinen

FRANCE
Les Echos
Cartoonist: Pascal Garnier,

GERMANY
Die Zeit
Cartoonist: Ivan Canu, Javier Jaen,

HOLLAND
Trouw
Cartoonist: Len Munnik, Tom Jans

IRELAND
The Irish Times
Cartoonist: Martyn Turner

ITALY
Salzmann International
Cartoonist: Federico Gastaldi

JAPAN
Asahi Shimbun
Cartoonist: Mr. Shin Yamada

JORDAN
FreePen
Cartoonist: Omar Abdallat

LUXEMBOURG
Luxemburger Wort
Cartoonist: Florin Balaban

MALTA
Times of Malta
Cartoonist: Sebastian Tanti Burlò

OMAN
Times of Oman
Cartoonist: Isidore Carloman

PERU
Diario El Comercio
Cartoonist: Victor Sanjinez García

POLAND
Polska Press Grupa
Cartoonist: Tomek Bochenski

PORTUGAL
Expresso
Cartoonist: Joao Maio Pinto

PUERTO RICO
El Nuevo Día
Cartoonist: Miguel Bayon, Carlos

SLOVAKIA
SME
Cartoonist: Ladislav Laurinčík aka Mandor

SLOVENIA
VEČER
Cartoonist: Ciril Horjak

SPAIN
El Mundo
http://www.elmundo.es/
Cartoonist: Ricardo & Julio Rey
And Ricardo Martínez Ortega

SYRIA
Souriatna
Cartoonist: Ahamad Rahmeh

UAE – United Arab Emirates
Gulf News
Cartoonist: Nino Jose Heredia, Ramachandra Babu and Luis Vazquez

UGANDA
Daily Monitor
Cartoonist: Chrisogon Atukwasize

UNITED KINGDOM
Financial Times
Cartoonist: Zebedee Helm

USA
Chicago Tribune
Cartoonist: Scott Stantis and Joe Fornier

The Boston Globe
Cartoonist: Ward Sutton

The Plain Dealer
Cartoonist: Jeff Darcy and Chris Morris

InkPopStudio
Cartoonist: Steve Sedam

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Special thanks to David Kordalski – SND former president and Søren Nyeland, Design Editor, Politiken

 
INVITATION – The Best of News Design Competition –
Opinion/Editorial Cartoons: We have added subcategory 11Db, Editorial Cartoon Portfolios. For this category, enter six cartoons from the same artist, published any time in 2017 (in newspapers or magazines).

FREE May 2017 calendar wallpaper + anniversaries and events

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May is only starting and Society for News Design provides a calendar of events happening this month.

“The best that you can do” is the 2017 SND Year-Long Conversation to provide incentive and help designers worldwide to improve themselves, be more creative and to do their best designs in print and online, by thinking in advance some exciting projects and share them with SND community.

Any opportunity in the design department should be taken as a challenge for us to overcome our limits and to do our best and be more creative. Nowadays it is a great privilege to have a space in print or online where you can show your design and you should not lose this chance.

Download the May 2017 SND wallpaper created by KADIR ÖZMEN or download the 2017 full SND Calendar with the most important events of the year and of course SND events.

SHOWCASE is SND’s new space for designers to show their works in print and online. Be proud of your work and inspire others to be creative.

Did you or your team produce a special coverage or project involving a good design? Please send it to mailto:snd@snd.org and we will consider promoting it on our website.

MAY 2017 events

01 MAY Labour Day

03 MAY World Press Freedom Day

03-05 MAY World Economic Forum on Africa, Durban

04-06 MAY Kenya Trade Show 2016 at Sarit Expo Centre, Nairobi, Keyna

05 MAY Ethiopia Liberation Day

05-21 MAY Ice Hockey: IIHF World Championship 2017, Cologne, Paris Germany, France

06 MAY 76th annivesary of Joseph Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union Russia

06 MAY Kentucky Derby Horse Race, Kentucky

07 MAY Football: FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium London Sports

08 MAY Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War

08 MAY Mother’s Day

09 MAY Europe Day, European Union

10-12 MAY World Economic Forum on ASEAN, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

12-14 MAY Spanish F1 Grand Prix 2017 Sports

12-18 MAY Mental Health Awareness Week

12-22 MAY Multi-sports Islamic Solidarity Games, Baku

14 MAY World Migratory Bird Day Global u Israel Independence Day 15 MAY Paraguay Independence Day u International Day of Families

17 MAY World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

17-28 MAY Cannes Film Festival 2017, France

19-21 MAY World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa Dead Sea, Jordan

20 MAY Cameroon National Day General 20 MAY Vesak, the Day of the Full Moon

21 MAY 2017 IPL Cricket Final 2017, India

21-23 MAY World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

21 MAY – 11 June 2017 Tennis: French Open 2017, Paris

23 MAY 2017 International Day of End of Obstetric Fistula Global 24 MAY 2017 Eritrea Independence Day

24 MAY – 08 AUG. Cricket: South Africa tour of England United Kingdom Sports 25 MAY 2017 Jordan Independence Day

27 MAY Ramadan begins

25-28 MAY Monaco Grand Prix 2017, Monaco

26 MAY Independence Day Georgia

27 MAY Football: FA Cup final Wembley Stadium, London

27 MAY 80th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge was officially opened. It links San Francisco and Marin County in California U.S.

28 MAY – 11 JUN. Tennis: French Open Paris France Sports

29 MAY International Day of UN Peacekeepers Global

29 MAY 100th birth anniversary of John F. Kennedy, President of the United States United States U.S.

30 MAY Anniversary of Jordan and Egypt signed a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel Egypt / Jordan

31 MAY World No-Tobacco Day

31 MAY South Africa Independence Day


Anniversaries during the month of May 2017

1 Year (2016)

May 06: Sadiq Khan, the son of Pakistani bus driver, becomes London’s first Muslim mayor.

May 08: A prominent Pakistani rights and anti-militant activist Khurram Zaki is shot dead.

May 10: Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party is hanged at a Dhaka jail for massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war.

May 12: Brazil’s Senate votes 55-22 to impeach President Dilma Rousseff; vice president to take over as acting president.

May 15: Max Verstappen becomes youngest ever Formula One winner after winning the Spanish Grand Prix.

May 18: Mitsubishi Motors president to resign over fuel-cheating scandal.

May 19: An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashes in the Mediterranean Sea.

May 21: Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour is killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan.

May 22: 17 girls die in fire at school dormitory in northern Thailand.

May 23: The world’s first fully functional 3D printed buildings is inaugurated in Dubai.

May 23: India successfully launches its first mini space shuttle and join the global race to make rockets as reusable.

May 23: Independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria’s presidential election

 

2 Years (2015)

May 02: Duchess of Cambridge give birth to a girl.

May 06: The first Arab probe to Mars called ‘Hope’ or Al Amal in Arabic will create the first truly global picture and model of the Martian atmosphere.

May 06: The UAE and the European Union has signed a landmark agreement allowing Emirati citizens to visit all Schengen countries without a visa.

May 08: United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron lead his Conservatives party to a stunning election victory.

May 08: A Pakistani military helicopter crashes, killing six people including the Norwegian and Philippine envoys.

May 09: An Egyptian court has sentencec ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in prison for embezzlement.

May 13: The Vatican recognises Palestinian statehood.

May 14: Two women in Qatar have made history by taking two seats in the quadrennial national elections to choose the 29 members of the Central Municipal Council (CMC).

May 14: Mexican mayoral candidate Enrique Hernandez is shot dead during election campaign.

May 14: BB King, singer, songwriter and guitarist is died, at the age of 89.

May 16: Egypt court sentences ex-President Mohammad Mursi to death in 2011 jail break case.

May 18: The Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) is established as a free zone.

May 22: A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 19 people and wounding several others.

 

5 Years (2012)

May 05: Japan has shut down the last of its 50 nuclear reactors and will go without electricity from nuclear power.

May 06: Sky News Arabia, Abu Dhabi’s first International TV channel is launched.

May 06: Socialist Francois Hollande wins against conservative Nicolas Sarkozy to become France’s next president.

May 09: The Sukhoi Superjet 100, a Russian made civilian plane, crash landed in the mountainous area of Indonesia.

May 13: Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson is replaced amid accusations he included a fake computer science degree on his CV.

May 17: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan sign a deal estimated at $1 billion (Dh3.7 billion) to construct a dedicated cross-border electricity transmission line.

May 17: Grammy winning disco legend Donna Summer dies of lung cancer at the age of 63 in her home in Florida.

May 17: Algerian diva Warda dies at the age of 72, due to heart attack in her home in Cairo.

May 20: Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, dies from natural causes in his home of Chicago at the age of 96.

May 20: Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees dies at the age of 62 in London after a long battle with cancer.

May 23: At least 25 people, including four children, are killed in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district when the Bengaluru-bound Hampi Express rammed into a stationary goods train.

May 28: A fire at Villagio Mall kills 19 people including 13 children in Doha, Qatar.

May 30: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for arming and supporting rebels in Sierra Leone.

 

10 Years (2007)

May 03: Scottish Parliament general election. The Scottish National Party (SNP) won by a single seat and formed a minority government.

May 03: Death of Wally Schirra, American astronaut. The only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programmes.

May 25: Google Street View was launched in the US.

 

15 Years (2002)

May 03: The American computer hardware manufacturers Hewlett-Packard and Compaq merged.

May 06: World Wrestling Federation Entertainment changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

May 10: Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was jailed for life for selling US secrets to Russia.

May 16: The decomposed remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were found in Pakistan.

May 20: East Timor became an independent nation.

 

20 Years (1997)

May 01: The Labour Party won the British general election in a landslide victory, ending 18 years of Conservative rule.

May 07: Intel released the Pentium II processor.

May 08: A British court convicted Pakistani shipping magnate Abbas Gokal of defrauding creditors of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).

May 10: Qaen earthquake, Iran. More than 1,500 people were killed and 50,000 left homeless.

May 11: The IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in New York City.

May 12: The Russian–Chechen Peace Treaty was signed in Moscow following the First Chechen War.

May 16: Launch of Friday Magazine.

May 23: Mohammad Khatami was elected President of Iran.

 

25 Years (1992)

May 03: Death of George Murphy, Academy Award-winning American actor, dancer and politician.

May 05: The video game Wolfenstein 3D was released. It is credited with popularising the first-person shooter genre.

May 06: Death of Marlene Dietrich, German-born American stage and film actress and singer.

May 09: Westray Mine Disaster, Nova Scotia, Canada. 26 miners were killed by a methane explosion.

May 22: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia joins the United Nations.

May 23: The USA, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed the Lisbon.

Protocol, agreeing to implement the START arms reduction treaty that had been agreed by the Soviet Union prior to its collapse.

May 24: The Prime Minister of Thailand, Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigned after pro-democracy protests were violently repressed by the army.

 

30 Years (1987)

May 06: Death of William Casey, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

May 09: Ireland won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brussels, Belgium. Johnny Logan became the first singer to win the contest twice, with the song Hold Me Now.

May 11: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (‘the Butcher of Lyon’) went on trial in Lyon, France.

May 14: Death of Rita Hayworth, American film actress and dancer.

May 17: The U.S. Navy frigate USS Stark was hit by two Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi plane in the Gulf. 37 sailors were killed.

May 17: Death of Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and sociologist. Joint winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Economics.

 

40 Years (1977)

May 05: Death of Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of West Germany.

May 09: Death of James Jones, American novelist. Known for his WWII and post-WWII stories.

May 10: Death of Joan Crawford, Academy Award-winning American film actress.

 

50 Years (1967)

May 01: Anastasio Somoza Debayle became President of Nicaragua.

May 01: American singer Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.

May 01: The Aldene Connection railway link officially opened in Roselle Park, New Jersey, US.

May 05: Ariel 3, the first satellite designed and built in Britain, was launched to study the Earth’s atmosphere.

May 08: The huge Province of Davao in the Philippines was divided into three smaller provinces: Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Davao del Sur.

May 08: Death of LaVerne Andrews, American singer.

May 10: British rock musicians Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones were arrested for drug offences in West Sussex, UK.

May 12: British rock band Pink Floyd staged the first-ever surround sound (quadraphonic) rock concert, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

May 12: Death of John Masefield, British poet, novelist and playwright.

May 13: Zakir Hussain became President of India. He was India’s first Muslim President.

May 22: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.

May 25: Celtic became the first British football team to win the European Cup, beating Internazionale Milan 2–1 in Lisbon, Portugal.

May 28: British sailor and aviator Sir Francis Chichester became the first person to complete a true solo circumnavigate.

May 30: Jordan and Egypt signed a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.

May 31: Death of Billy Strayhorn, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.

 

60 Years (1957)

May 06: US Senator John F. Kennedy is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book Profiles in Courage.

May 09: Death of Ezio Pinza, Italian opera singer and stage, film, television and radio actor.

May 28: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, best known for the Grammy Awards, is established in Hollywood.

 

65 Years (1952)

May 02: BOAC (now British Airways) launches the world’s first passenger jet service (from London to Johannesburg) as the de Havilland Comet went into commercial service.

May 03: US Air Force pilots William Benedict and Joseph Fletcher lands a plane at the geographic North Pole.

May 13: The Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India’s Parliament) held its first sitting.

May 31: General Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the US Army.

 

70 Years (1947)

May 11: American tyre manufacturer B.F. Goodrich announces the development of the first successful tubeless tyres.

May 22: United Steelworkers was founded. It is the largest trade union in North America.

 

75 Years (1942)

May 03: Death of Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (1924–26, 1929–42).

May 05: Birth of Tammy Wynette, American country music singer and songwriter.

May 29: Death of John Barrymore, American stage and film actor.

 

80 Years (1937)

May 03: American writer Margaret Mitchell is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Gone with the Wind.

May 05: Birth of Delia Derbyshire, British electronic music composer and musician.

May 06: The Hindenburg disaster. The German airship Hindenburg burst into flames as it docked at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.

May 12: The coronation of King George VI of the United Kingdom.

May 15: Death of Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowdon, British politician.

May 21: North Pole-1, the first manned drifting ice station, was established by the Soviet Union in the Arctic Ocean.

May 23: Death of John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist.

May 27: The Golden Gate Bridge was officially opened. It links San Francisco and Marin County in California.

 

90 Years (1927)

May 01: Imperial Airways (the predecessor of British Airways) became the first airline to offer an in-flight meal service on its scheduled flights. The Silverwing service was launched on its London to Paris route.

May 04: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.

May 08: French aviators Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappeared while attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York in their plane L’Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird).

May 09: The Australian Parliament convened in the new capital, Canberra, for the first time, after moving from Melbourne.

May 20: The Treaty of Jeddah was signed. The UK recognised the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud over the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd (which merged and became Saudi Arabia in 1932).

May 20: American aviator Charles Lindbergh made his historic first non-stop solo transatlantic flight, from New York to Paris.

 

100 years (1917)

May 05: Eugene Bullard becomes the first African American to qualify as a military pilot.

May 06: Birth of Kal Mann, American lyricist.

May 07: Birth of David Tomlinson, British film actor.

May 23: Birth of Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist.

May 29: Birth of John F. Kennedy, President of the United States

 

125 Years (1892)

May 07: Birth of Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia.

 

150 years (1867)

May 07: Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel was granted a British patent for his invention of dynamite – a safer and more manageable alternative to black powder and nitroglycerin.

May 15: Benito Juárez was reinstated as President of Mexico after the US government forced France to withdraw its forces.

May 27: Birth of Arnold Bennett, British novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist and critic.

May 29: Austria-Hungary (also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire) was established as a dual monarchy when the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867

 

200 Years (1817)

May 15: Friends Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA was officially opened.

May 15: Birth of Debendranath Tagore, Hindu philosopher and religious reformer.

May 21: Great Atlanta fire, Georgia, USA. A fire in a warehouse spread uncontrollably as firefighters were engaged in dealing with fires in other parts of the city

 

250 Years (1767)

May 04: Birth of Tyagaraja, Indian classical composer


Illustration by KADIR ÖZMEN
Kadir Özmen is a graphic artist. He was born in 1986, Bursa/Turkey. He graduated from art school with master degree in infographic design . He does newspaper pages designs, magazine pages designs, illustrations and infographics. He participated so many workshops with Fernando Baptista, Juan Velasco.. He won so many national and international awards.

 

SND38 Individual Portfolio Winner Spotlight: Kelli Sullivan

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Kelli Sullivan
Deputy Design Director for News & Projects

Los Angeles Times 

What is your current job title, and how long have you been in that role?
Deputy Design Director for News and projects. I have been in this position here at the Times since 2005, 11+ years. Before that, I was Deputy Design Director in our Features department.

What do you love about designing for print?
I like the limitations of print, like space, time, press issues, etc. I find it forces me to remove clutter and develop bold yet simple ways to enhance the reading experience without interrupting it. To pare down the elements to the very best.

Your portfolio has mostly inside pages. What are the perks of designing well for the inside of the book?
Inside pages give me room to breathe as a designer. You are able to design for single subject for the most part. I’m in a unique position to look over everything and develop the scale required for the project I’m working on. I view my role as to design a project how it should be at its best and boldest and then argue for that. Scaling back if the editors feel differently. Fortunately, they generally agree with me.

Kelli Sullivan particularly likes working on photo page design. “I enjoy the challenge of telling stories through photos and captions alone.”

Who in your newsroom do you enjoy collaborating with?
Everyone. I have a great relationship with the editors, writers, graphics team and photo department. I am at the center of the whole group for presentation and I really enjoy that unique position in the newsroom. I strive to have a good relationship with everyone in order to work together to develop the best elements for each story. Although, I must admit that I particularly like working with the photo department on photo page design. I enjoy the challenge of telling stories through photos and captions alone.

Which of these project was the most challenging?
Well, the most challenging was actually not in my portfolio but in a layout I sent you,”The Trump Nation.” Taking all of David Horsey‘s terrific illustrations he drew of Trump supporters from a rally he attended, and figuring how to scale and position them and how much space it all needed took a lot of trial and error. Then designing the typography to explain but not overwhelm his illustrations was another challenge.

”The Trump Nation,” features David Horsey‘s illustrations of Trump supporters from a rally he attended.

From my portfolio, I would have to say the live Prince layout was most challenging due to the time/space constraints and yet still finding a way to capture his life quickly yet with the most impact. Photo research is always the time consumer. I work with Photo but do a lot on my own too since I have an idea of what I’m looking for. And as always the “Lessons in India” photo spread was challenging, as many photo spreads are, to tell a story visually that has flow, impact and without repetition. When you only have 5-7 photos each one should propel the story in it’s own way. But they need to play off each other as well, using scale and contrast.

What do you feel is the most important part of your design process?
I would say collaboration with the folks involved and with our AME for Design, Michael. Soliciting feedback is essential on elevating mine or anyone’s work to its best. Working through multiple versions helps to filter out and refine my work, usually by simplifying. I may do as many as 10 iterations with large to small refinements. Often on photo pages I will do several iterations, run out proofs. I have discussions with several key people and then I make further refinements. Finally, I pitch it to top editors and sometimes make further refinements after that. Being open to other people’s ideas allows me to consider things I hadn’t thought of. Incorporating that into the layout makes the work better.


What does it take to do great print design? Former SND Competition Coordinator Andrea Zagata set out to find tips and tricks from the winners. Check SND.org every week for interviews with the best of the best!

SND38 Individual Portfolio Winner Spotlight: Tim Ball

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Tim Ball
Creative Director 
POLITICO 

What is your current job title, and how long have you held it?
I’m Creative Director for Politico in Europe, based in Brussels, Belgium. I started here on October 1, 2015. (For scale: Politico’s European edition started in April 2015.)

What is the biggest difference you have noticed designing for a European publication, as opposed to the U.S.? 
I’m not sure I’ve really noticed many big differences, but that could be due to the fact that I came here and was able to put my stamp on our visual style. If I’d walked into a large European newsroom, I’d probably be able to speak to a lot more differences, but here I’ve mostly taken what worked for me (and for publications) in the States and tried to give it a more European sensibility from a visual and typographic standpoint. Maybe the biggest difference I’ve seen is that readers seem to be less finicky? We have a very small sample size, relative to the big guys over here, but I’m not aware of a single complaint about anything after we launched a redesign last year. In the States, if you change the body type in any way, there’s always a handful of readers who angrily call and ask why it’s gotten smaller. (It never gets smaller.)

What do you love about print design?
What don’t I love about print design? There is a permanence to it. This dates me, I suppose. I still save print products. Magazines, mostly. And newspapers from big news events, that have one story in them I love or that employ some visual wizardry in some way that inspires me. I have issues of the Guardian in my flat. I have a stack of California Sunday magazines. My mom mails me the NYT Magazine anytime I ask for it.

Online and interactive design are obviously the future. There are an almost infinite number of ways to display work on a screen and invite readers to interact with it. But for as many sites as I bookmark, Instagram posts I like, and Tweets I favorite, I almost never revisit them. On a rainy day, I’m perfectly happy to revisit a magazine or a book that I haven’t picked up in a year or more.

There’s so much more you can control about how a reader experiences a story in print. When I design something in print, I have a very specific way that I want a reader to see it. I want someone to pick up this paper, see this headline first, see how it interacts with this photo; then read the deck; then start the story; then see how the graphic helps tell the story; then turn the page when they’re at a specific point in the text. As a print designer, I can control all of that. I don’t have to guess which screen you’re going to be looking at — whether it’ll be a widescreen monitor at your desk, a phone you’re holding on the subway, a phone you’re holding horizontally in bed; etc.

I’m a bit of a control freak. Maybe 1 percent of readers actually experience a printed page in the exact way I’m envisioning they will. But at this point, it still feels like I have a much better chance of curating that experience in print than I do online. Certainly with our somewhat hamstrung capabilities on politico.eu at the moment, at least.

What was the biggest design challenge you faced in the last year?
Last May, our editor approached me in an unusually secretive way to tell me about a story one of our correspondents in Paris had been working on for the better part of a year. Very few people in the office knew about it; the story had been written and edited in a series of Gmail drafts rather than in our CMS; we’d been slipped a CD of digital images from a source but couldn’t publish them. The story was this one, a gripping tale of a man who claimed to be s Spanish businessman but who was, in fact, a Russian spy. He’d built a life and a family in Madrid. And then one day he disappeared. It was like a true-life, European version of The Americans.

The trick was this: Since we couldn’t use any of these images we’d been given, and obviously there were no other existing photos of this character, how do we present this story? And while there was great detail in the text, there were no images to show any of those parts of the story.

I immediately thought of Luke Waller, who is amazing and who is one of the easiest-going and also most enthusiastic artists I’ve ever worked with. So I pitched that idea to our editor, who liked it, but who stressed that we could not share any of the actual story until the moment it was ready for publication.

It’s tricky to art-direct a series of five illustrations for a story that can’t be shared. It’s much trickier, I’m guessing, to draw them. But through a couple weeks of cagey emails and sketches and Luke reading between the lines, we wound up with a really compelling set of visuals for a story that had none to start.

Tim has a list of illustrators he would like to work with, it gets much shorter once he knows the direction a story will go: “Once I have a good sense of where a story is headed, I’m pretty quickly able to narrow a list to a handful of artists I think would do well with it.”

How do you decide which illustrator to hire for any particular project?
I have a pretty massive spreadsheet that I update multiple times a week. It catalogs all the artists we’ve worked with here on any particular project, along with a much longer list of artists I’d like to work with, notes on their style, how the process went, types of stories I think they’d enjoy illustrating, etc. I read every email and follow every link I’m sent by artists who’d like to work with us; I’ve commissioned plenty of work from folks I’d never heard of before they dropped me a line; I’ve had great success finding new (to me, at least) talent on Instagram or Twitter and I really consider both of those to be essential to this part of the job. This is also, by far, my favorite part of the job.

Once I have a good sense of where a story is headed, I’m pretty quickly able to narrow a list to a handful of artists I think would do well with it, who would probably fit within our budget for this specific piece, and who are likely to be able to turn it around in the (often limited) time we have before publication. I also work with an amazing network of agents in London and New York who are often integral to the process. If I’m panicking and need something quick, I know I can email Matthew at B&A in London with one idea and he’ll respond within an hour with a half-dozen other people who’d be equally great for the job.

How has going from working at a daily publication to a weekly changed your work process?
Not as much as I’d like? The old saying in journalism goes something like “However long you have for this is how long it’ll take,” right? I thought, naively, that working at a weekly would mean that the day we close the paper would be a day of fine-tuning and careful proofing and making adjustments here and there. Obviously that’s not the case. We operate like we’re a daily when it comes to print — the last few hours before our deadline are just as hectic as the last few hours on the news desk at the Post or the sports desk anywhere or… you name it. It seems like it shouldn’t be that way, but here we are. And I don’t think this place is unique in that regard.

In what ways do you feel the staff around you facilitates excellent work? 
The staff around me anywhere I’ve been facilitates excellent work. Anyone in this business who thinks they, personally, are the only reason something is good is not going to get far. Any page that I’ve designed, or package that I’ve art directed, or illustration or photo that I’ve commissioned, that turns out great is that way because of the writer who had a idea for a new way of approaching a story, or the editor who shaped it into one, or the illustrator or photographer who took my idea and made it ten times better. And anything that I legitimately do myself is made possible only by my colleagues who design 10 pages on a Wednesday so that I can focus on three. Or who push to get me an unedited version of a story two or three days early so that the artwork isn’t rushed. Or who invites me to a planning meeting so that I can hear how stories are taking shape at the idea stage.

Or an executive editor who sees an illustration of Donald Trump as some sort of Godzilla-like creature thrashing his way through a German village and says, “Yeah, sure! I like it.”

So that’s a long way of saying: in every way.


What does it take to do great print design? Former SND Competition Coordinator Andrea Zagata set out to find tips and tricks from the winners. Check SND.org every week for interviews with the best of the best!


Meet Our New SND.org Contributor, Todd Johnson!

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SND CONTRIBUTOR:

Todd Johnson, is a visual journalist at the San Francisco Business Times. Prior to the Business Times, he was a contributor at Los Angeles NPR affiliate KPCC 89.3 and VoiceWaves, a non-profit youth media organization. Todd’s work has received honors from the National Press Photographers Association, the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles and the California Newspaper Publishers Associations. Todd is a California native and enjoys flying his drone over the Bay Area’s scenic beauty.

email contact

@SFBizTodd

Q&A with Matt Petty: Redesigning a Legacy Magazine

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Last November, Matt Petty was hired as the creative director at the Nob Hill Gazette, a monthly magazine with a circulation of about 82,000 readers in one of San Francisco’s most affluent neighborhoods. Known for its coverage of socially prominent, well-heeled and philanthropic Bay Area residents, the publication features news, celebrity interviews and topics relating to fashion, money and real estate. Matt was tasked with a weighty undertaking: Reinvent a magazine that hadn’t undergone a significant redesign since publication started in 1978. Here’s how Matt describes his approach to transforming the look and feel of the legacy magazine.

 

SND38 Individual Portfolio Winner Spotlight: Chelsea Kleven

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Chelsea Kleven
Senior Designer
The Villages Daily Sun

What is your title, and how long have you been in that role?
I’m a Senior Designer. I’ve been in that role for a little over a year, and have been with the Daily Sun for almost 4 years.

What do you love about designing for print?
I’ve always been a creative person, so it’s a privilege to come to work every day and get to do something that I find incredibly enjoyable. In particular, the Daily Sun has an audience that is very responsive to what we produce, so I’ve been able to get feedback from readers over the years and really tailor my work to what they want to see. It’s a great feeling to know you’re producing a product that is useful and enjoyable.

I can’t tell for sure from the images on the website, but this appears to be six pages from one project, is that correct?
Yes, it was one large project that ran over six weeks.

Can you tell us how the concept was developed?
I have a weekly feature page that runs each Sunday, and it’s largely focused on activities or ways to be active. I created a page of small “color by number” drawings, and we got great response from our readers on that page. They wanted to see more, and I wanted to provide it for them — but on a much larger scale. Adult coloring books have been hugely popular the last few years, but what made this different — besides the scale — was completely localizing it and making it a reflection of our community. The Villages has many distinct locations, activities and people, so I wanted to capture that. It was a love letter to our Daily Sun readers.

What were the challenges of art directing this?
To begin, I hand drew each page as one large mural. It was difficult to find ways to connect the pages, but also make them look like complete, individual pages. That process took a couple weeks. I thought once the hand drawing was scanned in that there would only be a few small details to finesse, but I ended up pumping an incredible amount of detail and patterns into each page. I found that the more pattens and intricacies I added, the better it looked. Adding in details took about another month. There were also concerns about if any color should be added (it was decided no) and if newsprint would be heavy enough to color on (our publisher decided to run it on heavier paper.)

What in your newsroom environment do you feel facilitates good design work?
We are an incredibly collaborative and supportive group. Everyone is willing to teach one another, learn from each other, brainstorm ideas and challenge each other to be better. We’re also expected to be well-rounded journalists — visual thinkers who can research and write and edit our own work.

Our creative process is also given an incredible amount of priority. If I need more time to work on a project, my editors are willing to move my schedule around. If I need more real estate to really develop an idea, I can (almost always) have it. When I pitched this project I ask for it to be three connected pages. My editor said, “how about six?”

Where do you look for inspiration? How do you seek to improve your work?
I feel like I have so much still to learn, and I hope that’s a sentiment that always sticks with me. I try to look outside of news design for inspiration. I’m a huge fan of Pinterest, Behance and Society6 — there’s so much great work out there, it’s almost overwhelming. Trying to come up with ways to make my feature series active is something that has continually pushed my creativity. How many ways can I get a reader to pick up this paper with a complete activity in their hands?

I feel like the best way to improve my work is to get better at the tools I work with. So I’m constantly trying to do Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials. Even if I don’t use the end result of whatever the tutorial was teaching, I find that I often pick up new techniques and ways of doing things along the way.


What does it take to do great print design? Former SND Competition Coordinator Andrea Zagata set out to find tips and tricks from the winners. Check SND.org every week for interviews with the best of the best!

SND38 Individual Portfolio Winner Spotlight: Adam Vieyra

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Adam Vieyra 
Senior Graphic Designer, communications
Formerly:  San Diego Union-Tribune

What was your job title at the U-T, and how long were you in that role?
I was a Page Designer at the San Diego Union-Tribune for three years.

What is your job now?
I’m a “Senior Graphic Designer” at a communications firm now. In that role, I work on a variety of projects: logos, websites, presentations, maps, infographics, etc.

When deciding on an illustration, Adam likes to sketch a few different concepts first.

What do you love about designing for print?
I love the impact and the intimacy of print. The size of the canvas and the proximity of it to the reader’s face lets print design convey ideas and emotions in a way that’s difficult to do in other formats.

How do you decide on a concept for an illustration?
I’ll brainstorm—either on my own or in a group—until I have a few solid pencil sketches of a few different concepts. From there the decision comes down to making an impact, telling the story and setting the right tone.

Of the six pieces in your portfolio, which is your favorite? What do you love about it?
My cover for Anders Wright’s review of “Eye in the Sky.” The review focused on an ethical dilemma that comes up in the movie, and I think my illustration did a good job communicating that. I also like that the page didn’t come out fully formed. I had what I felt was a strong concept early on, but it took some experimentation with color and texture to make it work on the page.

What is the most important step in your design process?
The beginning: research, brainstorming and sketching.

Where do you look for inspiration?
I subscribe to some well-designed magazines and newspapers, and I visit Pinterest and Coverjunkie.com just about every day. I also try to get out to art shows every once in awhile.


What does it take to do great print design? Former SND Competition Coordinator Andrea Zagata set out to find tips and tricks from the winners. Check SND.org every week for interviews with the best of the best!

Design Journal: Transition Issue

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Changing it up over the passage of time

The movement from one stage, or place, to another can be exciting, necessary, crazy-scary and growth-inducing. Musing upon their own experiences of making changes in their own lives, fellow creatives point the way forward.

by  Julie M. Elman

Sometimes — more often than I’d like to admit — I have thoughts about chucking it all and trying something completely different. These are musings that first cropped up when I was around 6 years old, and I used to fantasize about buying a one-way ticket to Australia. (I have absolutely no idea why I was fixated on that country in particular, truth be told). These days, my throw-it-all-to-the-wind vision is fixated on a five-year walk around the world. (Seriously.)

Transition inspires me. Just reading the definition of that word brings out the instant “Yes!” in me. Transition is inevitable, as all change is, but oftentimes difficult to instigate. It’s endlessly fascinating for me to learn how people push back against inertia and move through the Part A’s of their lives, right on through the alphabet. This is what this issue focuses on —the Parts B, C, D and so on — of how visual creatives make their way through the process of change, whether it comes about by deliberate choices or serendipity.

I’m honored that for this issue, Phillip Ritzenberg, one of SND’s co-founders and past presidents, has contributed his take on transition, 10 years after he wrote the article “What We’ve Learned from Where We’ve Been,” which was first published in this magazine. So much has changed in the industry during this past decade — and through our navigating of the turning tides, we continue to find our ways to forge ahead and redefine.

Julie M. Elman, SND’s publication director, teaches design at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. A few years ago, she started playing the banjo, clawhammer style. It was love at first strum. “Better late than never,” she says.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For design consultant Ron Reason, inspiration is always afoot.

Wherever Ron Reason goes, a senseof-place picture follows. From right, clockwise: Montana; Amsterdam; Canada; Argentina; Burning Man Festival, Nevada; India; Alberta, Canada; Chicago; Nairobi; Queens, New York; Yellowstone.

Using his problem-solving skills, interactive designer Mike Rohde found a new way to take notes — and effectively “transitioned my thinking to a new space,” he says. He is now a leader in what he calls “sketchnoting” — an effective way to capture and develop ideas.

Phillip Ritzenberg, two-time SND president, has seen a lot in his 50-plus years as a designer, editor and publisher in the industry. For this issue, he riffs on the changes he’s witnessed since 2006 — when his article about change was published in Design Journal and help mark the 100th issue of this publication.

 

C O N T E N T S

4-5 A WORD, OR TWO, FROM SND’S PRESIDENT AND IMMEDIATE-PAST PRESIDENT

Douglas Okasaki looks to the future, and Sara Quinn reflects on industry evolution over the years

6 KNIGHT FOUNDATION GRANT

Largest grant awarded in SND’s history will help broaden the organization’s reach

TRANSITION ISSUE

8-53 Stories about the driving forces that compel us to take those big leaps in our creative lives

10 Creativity (re)defined, compiled by Tracy Collins

18 Observations on design + life, by Tippi Thole

22 Getting the job done, with Jeff Goertzen

25 Changing with the (ny)times, with Archie Tse

28 Footnotes, by Ron Reason

30 Forging a new path, with Dave Eames

32 From “no!” to “go!” with Jennifer George-Palilonis

34 One experiment … major life change, by Mike Rohde

37 Mini Q/A, with Aviva Loeb

38 “Actually, I like it,” with John Grimwade

40 Still rockin’ ‘n’ rollin’, with David Kordalski

45 Mini Q/A, with Jane Mitchell

46 What we need to learn, for where we seem to be going, by Phillip Ritzenberg

50 A Blue Brit, with Nigel Holmes

52 Of note, with Adrienne Tong

54 SND NEWS

The competition moves from Syracuse to St. Petersburg; an eBook about the contest experience is now available

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SND38 Individual Portfolio Winner Spotlight: Wayne Kamidoi

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Wayne Kamidoi
Art Director for enterprise and project
The New York Times

What is your current job title and how long have you held it?
Art director for enterprise and projects since November 2015, when The Times started its in-house print hub. Previously, I was an art director in The Times’ sports department for one more season than Derek Jeter, who worked for the Yankees from 1995-2014.

What do you love about working in print design?
Call me Old School (well, I am), because I still love reading the newspaper on paper and don’t mind getting my hands covered in ink. I also find it fascinating to observe people reading the newspaper on the subway or bus. You can say to yourself, “Hey, I know who designed that page!” In print, the designer has greater freedom to use scale in typography, photography and space to create and control the visual hierarchy for the reader. When a story appears in print, it seems more of a permanent record of an event, and to be a part of that record, is pretty cool. Hopefully, the reports of print’s death are greatly exaggerated.

Who in your newsroom do you enjoy collaborating with?
Anyone who can teach me something new about anything. During my career, I have had the luxury of working with people who are talented, creative and funny. Beginning at the Port Huron Times Herald to the Detroit Free Press and on to The New York Times, I have found the colleagues around me who inspire, and have taken the time to listen and learn from them.

What is the most challenging project you worked on in the last year?
The Pano-8, which is an eight-page section that has a four-page panoramic foldout. Along with Fred Bierman, who also designs enterprise and projects, we were asked to create sections that integrated editorial content into what had been only been used for advertising. We designed three section – Summer Olympics, Thanksgiving and Election. Working with newsroom technology, press production and advertising proved to be the most challenging aspect because it was a new product. We did learn that all of the people we communicated with, though, were equally vested in attaining high quality in the project. For instance, the staff at the printing plant was very excited about the unique process. Ultimately, the sections provided our print subscribers a real treat, and the 44-inch wide format allowed us to enhance the content of photography, illustrations and maps.

What is most important step in your design process?
Planning, which comes first, is important. But, in the end, if you’re the designer, it’s sweating the details that count. Sloppy design diminishes the content.

What is your favorite piece in your portfolio from this year?
Ali. That cover/section was a labor of love, and one I had been thinking about for years. Carl Nelson, my incomparable night sports editor for 20 years, would often ask as I left for the evening: “You have that Ali advance obit done?” Nervously, I would answer, “Of course.” Fittingly, the breaking-news coverage and the special commemorative section would be one of last – and most rewarding – projects that I worked on with Carl, who retired a couple months later.


What does it take to do great print design? Former SND Competition Coordinator Andrea Zagata set out to find tips and tricks from the winners. Check SND.org every week for interviews with the best of the best!

FREE June 2017 calendar wallpaper + anniversaries and events

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June is only starting and Society for News Design provides a calendar of events happening this month.

“The best that you can do” is the 2017 SND Year-Long Conversation to provide incentive and help designers worldwide to improve themselves, be more creative and to do their best designs in print and online, by thinking in advance some exciting projects and share them with SND community.

Any opportunity in the design department should be taken as a challenge for us to overcome our limits and to do our best and be more creative. Nowadays it is a great privilege to have a space in print or online where you can show your design and you should not lose this chance.

Download the May 2017 SND wallpaper created by JULIE M. ELMAN or download the 2017 full SND Calendar with the most important events of the year and of course SND events.

SHOWCASE is SND’s new space for designers to show their works in print and online. Be proud of your work and inspire others to be creative.

Did you or your team produce a special coverage or project involving a good design? Please send it to mailto:snd@snd.org and we will consider promoting it on our website.

01 JUN

Global Day of Parents Global u 30th death anniversary of Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon General

01-18 JUN

ICC Champions Trophy England & Wales Sports

03 JUN

Footaball: 2017 UEFA Champions League Final in Cardiff stadium Cardiff

125th anniversary of the Liverpool Football Club was officially founded in England

2017 Epsom Derby Festival – Horse Race

04 JUN

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression Global

100th anniversary of the Order of the British Empire was established by King George V

100th anniversary of the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded England

05 JUN

Constitution Day Denmark u World Environment Day

50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. Israel launched pre-emptive air strikes against Egypt and then pushed into Jordan and Syria. Egypt / Israel

06 JUN

Sweden National Day

50th anniversary of the Six-Day War: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Suez Canal by scuttling ships on both sides of it, Egypt

07 JUN

125th anniversary of American inventor Thomas Edison was granted US patents for an electric lighting system, an electrical distribution and metering system United States

100th anniversary of the Lions Clubs International was founded

08 JUN

World Oceans Day Global u150th birth anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright, famous American architect United States

09-11 JUN

Canadian Grand Prix 2017 Canada Sports

10 JUN

40th anniversary of Apple Computer released the Apple II – the first personal computer to feature colour graphics United States

11 JUN

150th birth anniversary of Charles Fabry, French physicist who discovered the Earth’s ozone layer France

30th death anniversary of British general election

Margaret Thatcher became the only British Prime Minister of the 20th century to win three consecutive terms in office United Kingdom

12 JUN

Philippines Independence Day

2017 World Day Against Child Labour

13-16 JUN

Extreme Sports: Summer X Games Minnesota Sports 14 JUN. World Blood Donor Day

100th birth anniversary of Atle Selberg, award-winning Norwegian-born American mathematician. Known for his work in analytic number theory

15 JUN

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

15-18 JUN

US Open – Golf Erin Hills, Wisconsin

16 JUN

100th birth anniversary of Irving Penn, American photographer. Best known for his fashion photography (especially for Vogue magazine)

16 JUN

40th anniversary of the computer technology company Oracle Corporation was founded in Santa Clara, California United States

16-20 JUN

Royal Ascot – Horse Racing Ascot

16-30 JUN

Football: 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Poland

17 JUN

Iceland Independence Day General

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

50th anniversary of China successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb, becoming the fourth country to develop a thermonuclear weapon China

17-27 JUN

Sailing: America’s Cup Bermuda Bermuda

17 JUN – 02 JUN 2017

Football: Confederations Cup Russia Russia

19 JUN

Father’s Day Global

20 JUN

World Refugee Day Global

23 JUN

National Day (Birthday of Grand Duchess Charlotte) Luxembourg

United Nations Public Service Day

International Widow’s Day Global

100th anniversary of Ukraine was founded (as the Ukrainian People’s Republic)

Mozambique Independence Day

25 JUN

Slovenia Independence Day/Statehood Day

Day of the Seafarer [IMO]

Eid Al Fitr celebrations UAE/Gulf

26 JUN

Madagascar Independence Day

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

26 JUN – 23 JUL

Cricket: ODI World Cup for Women 2017 England Sports 27 JUN. Djibouti Independence Day

27 JUN

50th anniversary of the world’s first ATM (cash machine) went into operation at Barclays Bank in Enfield, north London U. K.

29 JUN

50th death anniversary of Jayne Mansfield, award-winning American stage and film actress. One of Hollywood’s leading blonde bombshells of the 1950s

29 JUN

25th death anniversary of Mohammad Boudiaf, President of Algeria

10th anniversary of Apple released the first iPhone U. S.

30 JUN

Congo Independence Day u 100th birth anniversary of Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, Grammy Award-winning American singer, dancer, actress, entertainer and civil rights activist Entertainment

30 JUN

80th anniversary of the 999 emergency telephone service went into operation in London – the first such service in the world United Kingdom

30 JUN – 02 JUL

Austrian Grand Prix 2017 Sports

 


SND38 Individual Portfolio Winner Spotlight: Lise Mogensen

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Lise Mogensen
Junior Graphic Designer
Politiken

What is your current job title, and how long have you been in that role?
I work as a Junior Graphic Designer, which at Politiken means that I’m still enrolled as a student. I have worked here full time as an apprentice for about three years, finishing my final exams in December 2017.

Where do you seek inspiration as a print designer?
My biggest inspiration right now mainly comes from the brilliant graphic designers, photographers and other creatives that surround me every day at Politiken. They have taught me the importance of hard work, pushing boundaries for what it means to work with news design, and doing it all with a sense of humor.

Seeking inspiration from print design around the world is just as important for me. When I travel I have a habit of buying magazines about things I know absolutely nothing about – sailing, hunting, poultry farming, just to name a few – just because of a great cover. I love things that are complex, but simple, bold and funny. Anything that makes me smile or even laugh I automatically love. Even – and sometimes especially – when the funny part is not intentional.

What do you love about designing for print?
I love the long tradition of news design for print and challenging the concept of how to visually tell our readers a story. And being a student of graphic design at Politiken I get the best of both worlds. I work with people who have been doing this for 20-30 years. Learning about techniques, the history of print design and typography from them is a true joy. Working with web design is fun, adventurous and the possibilities are endless. Even so… there is something special about holding something that you designed and created between your hands. And especially as a student, that never gets old.

What is the most important step in your design process?
Finding that one simple, but still bold idea is always the key. Figuring out how to tell a often very complex story in the simplest manner possible, but still capturing our readers attention is the most important, most challenging but also the most exciting part of my job.


What does it take to do great print design? Former SND Competition Coordinator Andrea Zagata set out to find tips and tricks from the winners. Check SND.org every week for interviews with the best of the best!

Meet Alexandro Medrano: New Regional Director

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Mexico and Central America have a strong visual journalism, talented illustrators, extraordinary infographic artists and award winner publications. Society for News Design (SND) is happy and proud to have one of the most talented visual journalists as member of Region 11 (Mexico and Central America). Alexandro Medrano is newly appointed SND regional director to oversee, manage and secure the best representation in the design industry that Region 11 rightly deserved.

Medrano’s professional life is a successful and inspiring story. Everything he touches became, not to literally say gold, but a successful case. His appointment as regional director will open doors to a myriad of opportunities for visual journalism in the region. Please feel free to contact Medrano to be part of his projects.

In our interview with Medrano, he shared with SND some of his thoughts on visual journalism.

How did you first encounter SND?
I first got to know about SND in 1989, through all the books that the design group had, when I first started working at the newspaper El Norte, in Monterrey, Mexico. From that moment, I dreamed of being part of what I saw in that book.

How has your involvement with SND helped you grow professionally or personally?
Seeing and receiving information from the SND always raised my parameters of what I could accomplish, it constantly forged my spirit of constant improvement, motivated me and imposed me the mission of taking my career beyond what had been seen. The SND always pushed me to be better.

What are you most looking forward to in your new role as regional director (Region 11, Mexico-Central America)?
I seek that each of the members and interested people in region 11 become leaders in their own spaces. It’s my aspiration to tell and show that in every environment the presence of designers is a construction factor for the growth of any company.
Expose the direction and tendency in which the world provides tools, and allows to feed their vision.

What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Somebody once told me: “If you set yourself limits, you’ll be leaving aside what you love most about life”.

Who was your mentor or source of inspiration?
Every night before I go to sleep, I think about the things I do and hope that they help me build a legacy to transcend. I’ve always wanted to see my name written and underlined in the pages.
I’m inspired by the support I get from the company and the team that’s with me on this.

What is one design tool you couldn’t live without and why?
My essential tool is having a thought structure that involves transformation and inclusion where everything is possible and achievable.

What skill do you recommend news designers pick up in 2017?
There’s a cliché phrase that says “Rules are made to be broken”, if people did that more often, we would be a much more successful industry.
I would recommend applying in print all that they see in publicity, to apply to radio what they saw in the internet, and so on. Share knowledge, learn and apply it.
Who applies tend to go higher that who only reads and memorizes.

If you weren’t an Art Director/Visual Journalist, what do you think your career path would have been?
There are several things that I would have loved to be, test pilot, farmer, engineer in dark sciences, I don’t know what, but I am happy with what I am doing now.

 

Alexandro Medrano is the Innovation and Strategic Planning Director for Grupo Imagen. 

Awarded with more than 300 international awards for design, journalism, scenography and online contributions. He is one of the most conferred editorial designers in Latin America.

Recently he has collaborated with Strategic Planning, Workspace construction, as well as the scenery for the news-casting center for Grupo Imagem new facilities.

Achievement for Grupo Imagen 2 Bronze medals at the Promax BDA 2017 regional and World competitions for the scenography of the Imagen TV and Excelsior TV forums over globally recognized companies such as CNN and Al Jazeera this turns their work into the category of news As the best in the world.

In this same year he received Honorable Mention for the competition of Newcast Studio as Study of the year and also for his lighting design. To this are also joined the 4 world nominations in Promax BDA.

His work in publishing design has been recognized as a worldwide trend by WAN IFRA (World Association of Newspaper). For Excelsior, he has won more than 230 awards among which he received the World Best-Designed Award, given by the Society for News Design (SND), on its 33rd edition in 2012. In February 2013, he was part of the International jury for the 34th issue of SND’s selection of the Best Designed Newspapers in the world.

His functions within Grupo Imagen include radio, television, internet and print. Among multiple disciplines he handles editorial design, TV design, Internet design, construction of media, animation, stage design, strategic planning, innovation, technology applied to the transmedia,  among others.

Contact Alexandro Medrano     @alexandromedran      

Volunteer to assist at SND39 judging

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If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to get involved with SND, or to spend a weekend with 60 of the best visual minds in the business, this is your chance.

About 30 SND professional volunteers will be needed again in February 2018 to assist in the 39th annual Best of News Design Creative Competition print judging. Judging will return to the St. Petersburg Coliseum in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the second year in a row.

Facilitators assist in teams helping judges do their work. They place and remove entries on tables, sort voting chips, place and remove voting cups, take winning entries to the input area, input data, proofread data, assist the SND web desk, and generally help facilitate the process.

In addition, facilitators will work with the SND39 judging team, and will work closely with other facilitators and student groups attending to assist. While facilitating may be the hardest job you will ever love, it also provides networking and professional feedback opportunities in a setting that feels personal. In addition, the competition is annually vital to SND, and there is no better way to get directly involved in it than by volunteering to assist.

SND provides meals, but facilitators pay for their travel and lodging, estimated at $119 per night plus tax. Many publications cover this cost for employees because the facilitating experience yields valuable information, insights and ideas.

To volunteer, please send an email to bestofnewsdesign@gmail.com. Please indicate your first and last name, current place of work, job title and languages read or spoken, as well as your preferred contact email and phone numbers. Please put “SND39 Facilitator” in the subject line and indicate whether you have attended judging before (as a judge or facilitator). Only SND members in good standing will be considered.

Volunteers will be accepted until space is filled. Facilitators are selected based on two factors: The needs of the competition and the order in which applications are received. The sooner you volunteer, the better your chances of selection. Please note that we will receive more volunteers than we need. Your understanding is appreciated. If you are accepted, SND will provide full competition, hotel and travel details.

Note: These dates are tentative and this post will be updated when they are confirmed. SND39 judging is set for February 23-26, 2018, at the St. Petersburg Coliseum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Facilitators should be able to arrive in St. Petersburg (accessible by multiple airports) no later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22, stay through the completion of judging, and can leave any time the following Tuesday, Feb. 27.

SND Digital World’s Best: The Outline

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Most of the news industry has accepted the idea that their mobile audience is the most important and often the fastest growing, but few news sites are truly designed mobile-first.

The relentless focus on an amazing mobile experience is why the 2016 World’s Best for Digital Design was awarded to The Outline.

As the Outline came about, the designers set to creating a truly mobile-first publication. And it is apparent. Between the smart use of cards, a “swipe-not-scroll” mentality and an almost Snapchat-inspired look and feel to content exploration, The Outline surpasses other sites in its approach.

In his acceptance speech in Charlotte last month, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Joshua Topolsky gave credit to the creative approach to story design of the print world, telling the audience that that’s how they want to approach visual storytelling.

And it shows.

The use of color and type and other design elements are creative and intriguing without interfering with user experience or control. If there’s templates used, you’d be hard pressed to find them on the site that pops from the screen with, for lack of a better word, fun. It’s just fun.

The World’s Best judging team explained, “Instead of complaining that platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are strong in mobile, they set out to learn from them and created their own mobile storytelling formats. The Outline does not play it safe. They made bold decisions, broke all the rules and created a truly mobile-first experience that’s delightful and different. We applaud them for their audaciousness.”

To evaluate the universe of digital new experiences, the judging team – Kat Downs (Washington Post), Martin Kotynek (Zeit Online), Mariana Santos (formerly of Fusion) and Jessica Yu (formerly of The Wall Street Journal) — created a set of criteria that nominated sites or apps must adhere to:

  • Meet their audience where they are
  • Engage their communities
  • Have a clear focus
  • Create gorgeous and useful experiences
  • Respect users and solve their problems
  • Demonstrate sound judgement
  • Be ambitious, daring and audacious

The Outline beat out veterans such as National Geographic, New York Times, The Washington Post. In fact, the winning publication officially just launched in December 2016, making it the newest of all of the finalists.

SND38 Individual Portfolio Winner Spotlight: Brandon Ferrill

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Brandon Ferrill
Designer
Minneapolis Star Tribune

What is your current job title, and how long have you been in that role?
I’ve been a designer for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis for the past two years.

What do you love about designing for print?
I love being part of a process that tries to help people be better informed by showing information in ways they can easily digest and understand. These days it’s important to be armed with the most accurate information and if I can help someone understand that information easier and faster, then that’s a worthwhile endeavor for me.

You have a variety of work in your portfolio because it’s a combo. What kinds of projects do you enjoy most?
Probably the ones I learn something from, but really I’m not picky. Honestly, whatever I’m assigned to, I make sure I know as much as I can about the topic and then do the best I can to help tell that story in my part of the process.

What about your newsroom do you feel facilitates doing good design?
On top of having an incredibly talented design staff that is supportive of one another we’re part of a newsroom with a culture that understands that the storytelling process doesn’t stop once the final punctuation is placed at the end of a story. Editors in every department know that when something deserves special attention they can count on us to deliver.

Which of the projects in your portfolio do you feel was the most challenging?
They were all challenging in different ways for different reasons. The most challenging aspect that I think ties them all together is dealing with the range of topics covered, but it was also part of the fun of doing them.

In what ways do you push yourself to be a better designer and journalist?
This is probably the obvious answer, but I think it’s just making sure I know as much as I can know about the topics I’m working on. I want to have as good of an understanding as the reporter writing the story. I think that once I have a handle on that everything typically falls into place.


What does it take to do great print design? Former SND Competition Coordinator Andrea Zagata set out to find tips and tricks from the winners. Check SND.org every week for interviews with the best of the best!

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