Speaking of editorial cartoonists …
The Denver Post’s longtime cartoonist is taking a buyout, with no word of any new artists coming on board. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Keefe held the position there for 35 years. Daryl Cagle reports…
The editor preferred paste-up
10/06/2011 By
In 1985, I was entering my senior year in college and about to begin my tenure as editor of the campus newspaper.
The computer lab approached us and offered to produce our newspaper. They had this new thing, a Macintosh, that offered “desktop publishing.”
Crazy! the young fogy in me said. We paste up our paper, hiring a contractor to typeset our words on photo paper, run the through a waxer, and cut ourselves with X-ACTO knives.
What did I know, and probably I was right to refuse an emerging technology [Read more...]
Exploring the bostonglobe.com’s new design
10/05/2011 By
As part of the Design Museum Boston traveling lecture series done in collaboration with AIGA, Dan Zedek and Miranda Mulligan will talk about the design process behind the newly released BostonGlobe.com.
John Design Museum Boston along with co-hosts Boston World Partnerships and AIGA Boston at The Boston Globe for a UNITE event 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6. In addition to an enormous printing press, the Globe’s halls are filled with Boston history including a World Series ring and the paper’s many Pulitzer Prizes.
Dan Zedek is the Globe’s assistant managing editor for editorial design and Miranda Mulligan is editorial director for digital design.
The Globe will provide food and drinks and will raffling DMB prize packs. Globe HQ are right on the Red Line (JFK/UMass) and there’s plenty of parking.
Tickets are available here. Globe employees get in free and can contact Robert Powers for registration.
Learning from the bigger group in the hotel
09/30/2011 By
Wouldn't Region 1 members appreciate a smart accessory like this?
I’m in St. Louis this week, participating in the Society for News Design’s annual workshop. We’re in a huge hotel downtown but another, much larger group, is taking up all the good stools at the lobby bar. It’s PEO International, a massive group of philanthropic women, all of whom appear to be energetic, filled with purpose and highly organized.
They are organized by state, and each group sticks together. I happened to walk by a conference room when the South Carolina delegation was receiving its jaunty green tie-on sailor collar, proudly revealing their state emblem on a sailor collar. The ladies were passing them around, making sure their colleagues had them on correctly. A sense of pride in the room was palpable. They wear them everywhere.
So that’s what we’re doing next year at SND Cleveland. Region 1, my region, will have a fashion-forward sailor collar as well — the other regions will know when the Mighty Region 1 is in da house.
Next week I’ll announce a design competition. We want our sailor collars to really rock. Sailor caps will be optional.
SND Workshop has a 2012 home: Cleveland (rocks!)
03/05/2011 By
Pei's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum
The Society for News Design just approved a 2012 location for its annual conference.
It’s Cleveland. The Plain Dealer will be host. I couldn’t be more pleased.
This city makes sense for us. Its international airport makes it easy to get to, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where our opening reception will be held), and a TV show with Valerie Bertinelli. What more could you ask for?
Update: Here’s their website.
iPads and publishing: More pessimism on the design side
02/28/2011 By
The MagCulture blog has some discouraging notices about how designers have responded to the tablet.
The blogger’s Creative Review column assesses Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only newspaper The Daily as falling “well short of the kind of design finesse we take for granted in print. Instead of taking advantage of the iPad’s killer screen it falls back on website-like templates and characterless typographic choices.”
He also links to his Design Week article in which he contrasts publishers’ upbeat anticipation of the iPad this time last year with” the current reality of (at best) stagnant magazine app sales.”
“Together they add up to a rather pessimistic view of the iPad’s potential to reinvigorate publishing,” he says.
Redesigned N.Y. Observer ditches illustrations
09/08/2010 By
Redesigned Observer out today. Still pink.
I’m still mourning the broadsheet New York Observer, the city’s salmon-colored weekly that did such a good job reflecting the Upper East Side in the 1990s. Even the ads, like the one for Mortimer’s which somehow is stuck in my head, reeked of the Social Register.
When they were still in that Upper East Side townhouse, I once walked in to visit someone. No one was there. I ventured past the reception area. No one. But nothing was locked. I wandered into a few more rooms, [Read more...]
Why news designers should be in Denver this fall
07/03/2010 By
The Denver Sheraton
I’ve spent some time now at the Downtown Sheraton Denver, site of this fall’s SND conference.
You’re going to like this place. The hotel is beautiful, beds are super-comfy, and the facilities appear well-suited to our conference. And it’s right downtown, [Read more...]
