Art and Design blog
I can’t promise it, because this offer was capped at 25 people, but last week there were still some registration discounts available for SND’s Cleveland Workshop.
Plan early and save some dough the SND Annual Workshop, Oct. 11-13, 2012, in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Capital of the World, Cleveland, Ohio. Register here.
Bonus tip: Become a member of the Society for News Design and save even more!
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.
Goodbye STL. Hello CLE.
The Society for News Design is in early preparations for its 2012 workshop in Cleveland. SND CLE will open with a reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and most likely maintain a rocker vibe the rest of the week.
The St. Louis workshop, which ended Saturday, demonstrated a lot more upbeat energy than the year [Read more...]
Designer and artist Carrie Gee was one my colleagues at the SND workshop in St. Louis, and she saw a lot of things that I didn’t. She’s a lot younger and a lot more talented than I am, so I’m interested her point of view. Now that the dust is settling on SND STL, she has composed her thoughts.
Five years ago, when she was Carrie Hoover, she won an internship competition at SND, and she chose to contribute her talents to the San Jose Mercury News. She was soon snapped up by the Oregonian. Today, she’s at Font Bureau, and is art director of Edible Vineyard magazine.
I have to admit that I’m a little relieve to see that even someone representing her generation was apprehensive about the digital revolution. We print types are all a little nervous. But she’s feeling more confident about the future. Read on…
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.
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.
The Society for News Design is, as always, offering a great Quick Course lineup of offerings this spring.
The offerings focus on digital design: mobile applications, Flash, data visualization and HTML.
Quick Courses are normally $300. But this time, because of a grant they’ve landed, SND members get these for free. Attendees are responsible for travel, lodging and any other costs.
These are not seminars — this is intensive classroom learning on a two-day schedule. This particular lineup is focused on building digital skills.
Not an SND member? This is a good reason to be one.
There are no limits on how many free courses you register for. [Read more...]
That's me in the center, blogging, in an image from a live video stream
I’m missing the big Gallery 305K grand opening on Knowlton Street tonight, and it breaks my heart. But I have a good excuse.
I’m blogging from Syracuse this weekend, posting on www.snd.org, playing color commentator for the judging of a major competition: The World’s Best-Designed Newspaper. Papers from all over the world vie for the title, but only one — or even five or six, depending on how the judges feel — can claim the distinction.
Blogging is a good way to help your members feel engaged in what could otherwise feel strange — a bunch of judges huddled in a hotel picking over entries. [Read more...]
2010's World's Best
Starting tomorrow, I’ll be blogging from Syracuse, N.Y., at www.snd.org as I follow the judges who will pick a handful of newspapers that will carry the distinction of being “World’s Best-Designed”
Of last year’s three winners, two were from Germany and one, the New York Times, was from the U.S. The year before, when five winners were announced, the U.S. wasn’t represented at all. (Four were from Europe and one from Mexico.)
But it’s best not to look at this like the Olympics, with national pride at stake. It’s a chance to see what others are doing far away from home. A fresh perspective from another land is always stimulating.
The process will take all weekend and possibly into Tuesday. Stay tuned.
Society for News Design members are invited to take part in the SND Foundation Student Symposium, Friday, Feb. 3, in Syracuse. This offers a great chance for our student chapter members especially to take part and to hear from top minds in visual journalism. We have an excellent line-up of speakers: Jonathon Berlin of the Chicago Tribune [...]
I can’t promise it, because this offer was capped at 25 people, but last week there were still some registration discounts available for SND’s Cleveland Workshop. Plan early and save some dough the SND Annual Workshop, Oct. 11-13, 2012, in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Capital of the World, Cleveland, Ohio. Register here. Bonus tip: Become a [...]
Goodbye STL. Hello CLE. The Society for News Design is in early preparations for its 2012 workshop in Cleveland. SND CLE will open with a reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and most likely maintain a rocker vibe the rest of the week. The St. Louis workshop, which ended Saturday, demonstrated a [...]
