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.

That was the SND challenge given to Photoshop-savvy artists. Take these 26 bland stock images and arrange them into a “coherent, crazy, super-cool creation.” Sort of like one of those “Top Chef” challenges with heaps of raw carrots and onions.

Entries had to use at least 10 layers but could introduce up to three original images, [Read more...]

Charles Apple gets a package from Orlando.

Actually, it’s a box of our prized annual award books, sent to designer/blogger Charles Apple, who’s on assignment in South Africa. Very thoughtful gesture from our executive director, Stephen Komives.

If  you don’t have Apple’s blog in your news feed, what are you waiting for? A great way [Read more...]

Considering going to that huge Jon Stewart D.C. rally planned on Oct. 30? Maybe it would be a, uh, good for  your sanity to head down a day early for this cool event to benefit the SND Foundation.

The Society for News Design invites us all to join the an SND@ONA event 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29 at the Passenger in Washington. It’s a chance for ONA and SND members (sometimes, we are one in the same) to get to know each other better. [Read more...]

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Seeing the SND Foundation calendar, introduced two weeks ago at the Denver Workshop, was like being reacquainted with old friends. Each month features one of fifteen beautiful illustrations from some of the world’s top editorial artists. [Read more...]

It’s Martin Gee‘s custom-designed toy robot, his contribution to the SND Foundation silent auction. We who can only paint on Photoshop salute you, Martin!

This means only one thing: The Denver workshop is right around the corner. If you agreed to contribute an auction item, please get them out to the Denver Post ASAP. If you have misplaced the shipping information, call me.