Is this the site and meetingpoint of Visual Editors? Why are there so many groups without a cool group logo? Hey guys think visual: startup your PhotoShop and avatar the heck out of it! Continue
Posted by Wim Corduwener on May 10, 2008 at 12:46pm —
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The deadline for deciding has arrived and there are only a few seats
left in some of next week's classes in Web video journalism.
Visual Editors is bringing to Chicago top Web video instructors from the
U.S. and the U.K. to teach Web video fundamentals to the next wave of
digital journalists.
The Chicago Sun-Times is hosting the classes at 350 N. Orleans and the
sessions run from 9:30 to 5 p.m. (May… Continue
Posted by Robb Montgomery on April 29, 2008 at 10:32am —
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Hey everyone (and especially news/graphic artists...)
We've been having some overprint preview problems at the Missourian lately- the old trick of selecting everything then unchecking both boxes (in Illustrator) doesn't work with web GIFs and the problems are carrying over into print sometimes. So, what do you do to make sure white text shows up? Mary Nguyen, the graphics editor, and I are looking to try something new.
Thanks!
-Darla Continue
Posted by Darla Cameron on April 28, 2008 at 1:13pm —
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Use the new VizEds site to host your portfolio pages or video reels and get a widget that lets you post your work anywhere on the Web. Your blog, Facebook, wherever you want your work to be seen.
In this three-minute video, I telestrate the powerful portfolio management features this new site makes possible.
All you need to know is how to click, cut and paste and your work or critiques can go anywhere you want them to.
Upgrading your portfolio - the VizEds way
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Posted by Robb Montgomery on April 26, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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I just read and responded to a most curious e-mail about my first post.
The mailer, who shall remain anonymous as he didn't choose to post his comments publicly, ignored the blog's premise and used it as a jumping point to launch an attack on designers in general, whom he called 'drooling idiots that do nothing but draw boxes all night,' and concluding that designers are the cause of the industry's downturn.
To be fair, sometimes design is overblown. Sometimes we do get carried away.
However,… Continue
Idiots. Morons. Dumb. Stupid.
No, this isn't a venom-filled rant on how stupid our readers are. Instead, I'd like to address what I believe is an unhealthy, destructive perception of our audience.
On a typical day at work, I hear at least one person say readers are dumb. We can't run a story because readers won't understand it. We must dumb down headlines because readers lack the ability to grasp higher-concepts. Says who? Oh, right, us.
I'll allow that some of our readers are in fact of less… Continue
Posted by Ryan Stoddart on April 22, 2008 at 3:56pm —
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New Delhi: Even as pro-Tibet protests gain momentum in Delhi, a special Air China plane carrying the Olympic flame touched down at the Indira Gandhi International Airport at 1 am on Thursday.
The flame, travelling from Islamabad to New Delhi, was handed over to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Chief Suresh Kalmadi by China Olympic Committee officials, amidst the presence of a huge delegation of IOA officials and security personnel.
Torch run covers 2.5 kms and starts at 3.00 in the even…Continue
my 'reduction in force' photo series / project has been getting a lot of attention. honestly, it's kinda crazy. anyways... 2 publications want to use them. they've contacted me and neither have mentioned any kind of compensation. they just want my photos. it's a personal art project, shot on my own time and equipment. they're mine and i can sell usage rights? right?
i'm not good at talking about money especially asking for it. 2 photo editors and 1 photographer here told me i should. plus, i ha… Continue
Hey everyone!
Check out the winners of the SND College design contest at ssnd.missouri.edu! Then see the winners' pages on our Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssnd/. And if you can't get enough, check out the judges' comments on our live blog, ssnd.wordpress.com. Whew. All that design. Continue
So I was putzing around on the Web the other day, and I stumbled onto the Web site for my hometown newspaper, the Guangzhou Daily (I haven't been back to Guangzhou since the mid-90s). The Web site's pretty cool, different from the newspaper sites I've been used to seeing. They have an e-Edition of every issue for the last couple years, so you can flip through and see every front. Just a few samples:
The Gulf News is looking for an information graphics director to start a program there. They haven't done much in the way of graphics so far, but ever since Mario Garcia and I got involved, they are really excited about doing more. They have a very talented design and illustration staff, who would become involved.. The paper is amazing, bursting with ads and color, and people who work there are from all over the world. Dubai is an amazing place. I think they'd prefer someone who didn't have a fa… Continue
http://www.vizthink.com
I invented the term "location challenged" yesterday. I needed to complain about the flabbergasting cab driver who became hopelessly lost looking for --and I kid you not-- the enormous University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where I was co-conducting an SND workshop on information graphics.
My driver boasted, in a distracted kind way that I began to find disheartening as our blue minivan shot down I-40 and he fumbled with his war-torn atlas, that he preferred good ol… Continue
Posted by Karl Gude on April 13, 2008 at 9:30pm —
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I just attended a seminar in Chicago IL, where I got to meet Robb Montgamery. He was our keynote speaker. I have been interested in SoloJournalism (SJ) since reading about Kevin Sites in the "Hot Zone" and now after listening to Robb I am even more excited and conviniced that this is the type of journalism that I want to go after.
So I am following some of his suggestions about how blogging and social networks can be used for journalism. Thanks Robb for taking the t…
For years we have been asked if this series by Thomas French was online. There is an update to the story, so we finally had a reason to go back and post the series.
It was not the most important case in the world, or the most striking, or the most shocking. The victim wasn’t rich. She wasn’t famous. She wasn’t the daughter of anyone powerful. She was simply a 36-year-old woman trying to make… Continue
Posted by Desiree Perry on April 11, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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– to save 100 euros and to be in the draw for this wonderful TREK mountain bike, sponsored by Adobe. Register for the Copenhagen Crash seminar today, April 11th, and you will save 100 euros and - maybe - win the bike!
Join Copenhagen Crash May 22nd-24th, 2008!
Register now at…Continue
Posted by Lars Pryds on April 11, 2008 at 12:30am —
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Charles Blow is returning to the New York Times after working for a couple of years as the Art Director at National Geographic magazine. He has the absolute best job you can imagine for an information graphics artist: a visual columnist for the OpEd page who will create his own "OpCharts." He will also be creating graphics for their website.
You can read all about it here (scroll down):
http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/080409_prince/
Here's a blog piece I wrote when he went to Nat.… Continue
Posted by Karl Gude on April 10, 2008 at 8:28pm —
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I've always thought that newspapers do a very crappy job of promoting themselves and the role they play, and here's one recent example:
The Pulitzers were handed out on Monday. I saw the headline and heard a quick list of the journalism stories that won on the radio while driving home. I was interested in perusing some of those stories, but didn't have time that day. So I figured I'll just go back and read them online over the next couple days.
When I did, I was very disappointed at the way th… Continue
I got a little snarky in a previous post riffing off of the and railed on election coverage which is full of bells and whistles, but not — well — coverage. But I think it worth taking a serious look at what elections coverage is out there.
I'm a Web guy these days (as in we don't even have a print prod…
This was the cover from the ACC Tournament section by my former paper, The Herald-Sun. My friend Matt Philpott, the lead sports designer there, came up with the idea. Continue
Bonniers Stora Journalistpriset i Finland delades ut för sjunde gången. Vinnare i kategorien Årets Journalistiska Förnyelse blev det – med dommernes ord – överraskande och stilfulla månadsmagasin Kantri.
I år kom det in ett rekordartat antal förslag till prisvinnare… Continue
Posted by Lars Pryds on March 20, 2008 at 5:28pm —
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OK. I admit that headline is fairly non-editorial-sounding . . . but know this. I get no spiffs, commissions or kickbacks for sharing this information. I am just hoping for good karma in return, people.
I was just at B and H speccing up a Sony A1U video kit for a cl… Continue
Posted by Robb Montgomery on March 18, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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It's funny how little attention people pay to any candidate for lieutenant governor. I mean, the vice-presidential nominee, sure, we notice them -- they're a heartbeat away from the presidency, right? But it's the same sort of situation for a lieutenant governor, and unless they're a member of the KKK or something, most people probably don't even know who they are.
I've been watching this play out here over the past week, and it's really striking how eager we all are to have someone good to cli… Continue
Posted by Mindy Howie on March 15, 2008 at 8:46pm —
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I've always disspised typing along a path - for some reason - no matter what program I used, It always seemed cluncky - difficult to control - difficult to change - difficult to modify - and THEN! just when I thought I had everything the way I wanted - the type would fall off the end of the path and disappear.
Today, in a strange ah-ha! moment, as I was woking on a logo for some promotional products, I think i have found an acceptable solution to end all my frustration by simplying making a new… Continue
I'll be at the Illinois Community College Journalism Association's annual spring meeting April 10 at Harold Washington College, 30 E. Lake St., Chicago (come visit Robb!!), to present the ways campus newspapers can use various online tools, such as Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket, Flicker, YouTube, etc., to increase online visibility, multimedia presence and to supplement and promote the print edition -- hopefully so the schools can effectively use both to present news, features, sports, etc., to… Continue
Posted by tripp j crouse on March 13, 2008 at 2:04pm —
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I think most New Yorkers are still shaking our heads over this whole Spitzer thing.
I mean, he was supposed to be a good guy, y'know? He was supposed to be different, the voice of change and reform and bringing ethics to Albany, the Wall Street steamroller, advocate for truth and justice. I know, most politicians are crooked, so the stereotype goes, but we were sure he was different. And now, he's let us down (not to mention poor Silda and the kids ... I hope that at some point, she gave him a… Continue
¿Es tan bueno como dice cada año el concurso de la SND al quedar generalmente México entre los países más premiados o únicamente refleja el esfuerzo individual de algunos periódicos? Continue
So we got an interview request from a reporter today looking for an expert who can comment on a story she's working on. I set her up with an expert at the campus hospital. I told the reporter, who sounded fairly young, that she just needs to page the expert at this number and she'll call her right back (since the expert wasn't in her office, and I guess a lot of doctors still carry pagers). The reporter asks,
"So how would she know what number to call me back at?"
And then it dawns on m… Continue
We're in the middle of upgrading CCI at the Seattle P-I (verson 5.5.5 to 6.13.1, for those of you who are CCI knowledgable). I'm curious: What system do you have at your paper? What do you like and dislike about it? What do you do with it (writing, editing, page design, web, video)?
Martin Gee says the Merc is getting JazBox. Anyone know much about it? I've seen Harris's name attached to… Continue
The theme music for a new sound in journalism education started playing four years ago when a few close colleagues joined me in starting a new venture - to build Visual Editors.
The group started small and grew by word of mouth.
It takes several years for an online community to mature and only then will you know if it has long-term potential. I think we know now that we are here to stay. Because of you - Visual Editors is still a daily destination for jour… Continue
The global design guru Mario García just finished celebrating the launch of Daily Xpress, Thailand’s first free newspaper. Xpress is the latest in a flurry of free newspapers to arrive in Asia.
Read Matt Mansfield's report at update.snd.orgRead Mario García's blog about the launc… Continue
Posted by Lars Pryds on March 8, 2008 at 10:30am —
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I've just updated the SND Boston web site to include a copy of Robert Newman's presentation on brainstorming design. It's a bit (OK, a lot, late) but it's great stuff from a guy who has art directed everything from Entertainment Weekly to the Village Voice to Vibe to Real Simple.
The front door: http://www.sndboston.com
The download page: http://www.sndboston.com/togo.php Continue
I'm kinda behind on my reading, but I was looking at the "by the numbers" article on the SND competition website that was breaking down the results -- who won how many, from where, etc.
Here's a different twist o' the database:
12 of the top 50 (size) papers in the U.S. garnered a grand total of 10 awards, according to the database*
Miami Herald: 0
Fort Wort Star-Telegram: 0
Orlando Sentinel: 2
Arizona Republic: 1
San Ant… Continue
Posted by Kilometer31 on March 6, 2008 at 8:54pm —
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I don't know about the rest of the design community, but I for one have gotten a little bored with the cable news networks' toys.
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who is tired of magical floating pie charts, fancy blue screen bar charts and adding a touch screen to every map. Here's the Daily Show's take on it all:… Continue
Matt Mansfield is leaving the Bay Area newspaper he joined eight years ago.
He took the Merc management buyout, folks, and the next chapter in his career promises to be very interesting too.
Our mutual friend, Jonathon Berlin, has a great write up on the SND Update site. Leave comments there, please.
…Continue
Posted by Robb Montgomery on March 4, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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The winners of this year's "Best of Scandinavian News Design" competition organized by SNDS - the Society for News Design Scandinavia - have now been announced! The juries found a total of 69 winners in the Scandinavian categories, and 11 winners in the special European categories, open to Front Pages and Feature Pages. The winners will receive their diplomas at the Copenhagen Crash seminar in May, and only then will the organization reveal whic… Continue
Hoy apareció en Buenos Aires el diario Crítica de la Argentina, bajo la dirección de Jorge Lanata y en formato tabloid. En mi blog de clases hice un breve comentario que invito a leer.
Diseño Gráfico y Periodismo: "El último diario en papel" ya está en la calle.
Click here to hear The Plain Dealer photographers, including SND Gold winning photo illustrator Andrea Levy, talk about their work.
If you want to skip right to hear Andrea, click here.
I'm posting all of this for a simple reason. We're pretty darn proud. Here's a few reasons why:
-- ONPA just name… Continue
Video tour: Newspaper design workshop in Cairo
I am in egypt this week teaching a series of newspaper design workshops at the beginning and advanced levels. This video and photo slideshow shows students from the first day designing, presenting and cri… Continue
Posted by Robb Montgomery on February 27, 2008 at 5:16pm —
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Will spectacular ideas crash conventional thinking? Will Danish police and Danish squatters crash again this spring? Will newspaper boys crash into the public environment with bundles of free papers, while paypapers desperately crash the old designs and reappear as luxurious retro?
Get the answers to these and many other relevant questions at the SNDS Copenhagen Crash 2008 seminar -… Continue
Posted by Lars Pryds on February 26, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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So I went to see the "Our Body: The Universe Within" a national traveling exhibit making a stop here in San Antonio. Fascinating experience -- features actual human bodies preserved by a resin/plastic injection. Quite creepy in many ways.
But even more fasincating was the program they handed you after buying your ticket. It includes something of a miniposter of one of the human body exhibits. Full color glossy of man in all his anatomical correctness.
But wait! Something is most definitely not… Continue
Dear creative all,
We in Belgium follow the elections very closely in the US.
I think it would be a great idea to ask you for the best frontpages on Obama and Clinton.
If there's enough interest and quality (and fun solutions) we would publish them in our paper. Off course to you eternal credit! So please bombard me with Barrack and Hillary!
Thanks!!!
Martin Continue
Posted by Martin Huisman on February 22, 2008 at 8:53am —
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You betcha we set a record. Wednesday morning at approximately 6:45 a.m., this was my backyard thermometer taken just before dawn. The official airport temperature at Hector International in Fargo was -31, an all-time city low. I about froze my golf clubs off. Continue
The redesign of weekly engineering newspaper Ingeniøren has been nominated for a Gold, Silver, or Bronce Award by SNDS. A spread with an article about how our eyes make mistakes won an Award of Excellence. Lars Pryds was part of the design team behind both the redesign and the spread, along with designers Ann-Britt Broström…Continue
If you didn't think things could get much worse for the unfortunate souls who work for the Bay Area Newspaper Group ... well, think again. In a bizarre e-mail sent to all company employees on Feb. 19, president and publisher John Armstrong writes that the company is "extending to all employees a one-time voluntary separation opportunity." That's a buyout to you and me. In encouraging people to grab the deal, Armstrong adds that those who leave voluntarily could get a severance package worth doub… Continue
So much groups without logo’s
Is this the site and meetingpoint of Visual Editors? Why are there so many groups without a cool group logo? Hey guys think visual: startup your PhotoShop and avatar the heck out of it! Continue
Overprint what?
El Nuevo Libre
A 
Olympic Torch in India
help: compensation for one's work?
Pages from China
Anyone want to make infographics in Dubai?
Introduction
"A cry in the night" by Thomas French
Last chance today –
Sometimes a fire hose is just a fire hose
Want to intern at the Merc?
MTV to launch show about High School Newspaper
Rock the vote: Interactive maps edition
I'll show you mine if you show me yours
Go see my blog
New York's next great hope
An Alternative to the typepath
presenting on how to integrate print and online journalism
¿Cuál consideran qué es realmente el nivel de México en el diseño periodístico?
Computer systems: What do you use?
Remember SND Boston?
Fun with SND numbers
For you Andrea Levy fans....
Wait, I created this group
Post your best OBAMA-CLINTON frontpage!
The redesign of weekly engineering newspaper Ingeniøren has been nominated for a Gold, Silver, or Bronce Award by SNDS. A spread with an article about how our eyes make mistakes won an Award of Excellence. Lars Pryds was part of the design team behind both the redesign and the spread, along with designers Ann-Britt Broström… Continue
Typography enthusiasts beware!
Bay Area Newspaper Group: BANG! You're Dead
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