Category: Best of Digital Design

  • Best of Digital: Silver to Vice for a Mariah Carey song analysis

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    Vice News Design has earned Silver, its first, for its motion graphic breakdown of “All I Want for Christmas.” Category: Motion Graphics Title: Mariah Carey Link: https://vimeo.com/202297501/7e3ba77715 Comments: “VICE put in a lot of fun data in terms of the…

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  • Best of Digital: Silver to The Guardian for VR prison project

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    The Guardian of London has earned a Silver medal in Experimental Design for its VR experience of solitary confinement. Category: Experimental Design Title: 6×9: A VR Experience of Solitary Confinement Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2016/apr/27/6×9-a-virtual-experience-of-solitary-confinement Comments: “It’s using the VR characteristic of putting…

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  • Best of Digital: Silver to The Guardian for U.S. election coverage

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    The Guardian of London has earned a Silver medal for its coverage of the 2016 U.S. election. Category: Special events: U.S. elections Title: The U.S. Elections Links: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/nov/08/us-election-2016-results-live-clinton-trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/mar/01/super-tuesday-results-live-state-by-state http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/mar/25/us-election-2016-delegate-tracker-trump-cruz-kasich-sanders-clinton https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/mar/08/primary-caucus-live-results-michigan-mississippi-idaho-hawaii-election-2016 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/oct/20/final-presidential-debate-clinton-trump-interactive Comments: “The Guardian’s work this year does the…

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  • Best of Digital: Silver to Washington Post for election coverage

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    The Washington Post has won a Silver medal for its coverage of the 2016 election. Category: Special events: U.S. elections Title: Washington Post Election Coverage Links: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/election-results-from-coast-to-coast/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/50-state-poll/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/presidential-wikipedias/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/swing-state-margins/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/dnc-emoji-reactions Comments: “This is tight editing of a portfolio for…

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  • Best of Digital: Silver to Washington Post for its progressive web app

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    The Washington Post has won a Silver medal for its progressive web app, which allows stories to load immediately and features rich offline reading capabilities.

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  • Best of Digital: Silver to New York Times for ‘Watching’ product design

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    The New York Times has won a Silver medal for the UX design of its product that provides TV and movie recommendations. Category: Product Design Title: Watching Link: https://www.nytimes.com/watching Comments: “This is very functional, works amazing and is well designed.…

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  • Best of Digital: Silver to New York Times for Pulse coverage

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    The New York Times earned a Silver medal for breaking news graphic of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. Category: Graphics: Breaking news Title: What Happened Inside the Orlando Nightclub Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/12/us/what-happened-at-the-orlando-nightclub-shooting.html Comments: “The presentation is really solid and the…

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  • Best of Digital: Silver to Bloomberg’s inventions issue

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    Bloomberg Businessweek earned a Silver medal for its Global Tech Issue: Inventors and inventions around the world, fascinating, inspiring, and 70% Silicon Valley-free Category: Features Coverage Title: The Global Tech Issue Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-global-tech-inventors/#/ Comments: “It is unlike anything else we…

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  • Best of Digital: Gold to The Washington Post, for exploring the wall

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    The Washington Post earned a Gold medal for its piece on the U.S.-Mexico border crossing, from San Diego to Texas. Category: Features Coverage Title: Concrete Divisions Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/border-barriers/us-mexico-border-crossing/ Comments: “Tour de force. It’s thoughtful, immersive and deliberate with the navigation…

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  • Best of Digital: First Gold awarded, to The New York Times

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    The New York Times has earned the first Gold medal awarded in this year’s SND Best of Digital Design competition, with its detailed look at gymnast Simone Biles. Category: Features: Single-subject project Title: Simone Biles Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/05/sports/olympics-gymnast-simone-biles.html Comments: “Fabulous. Everything…

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