Category: Competitions
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SND Digital: Silver to NY Times for ‘Best and Worst Places to Grow Up’
What the judges said: “Everything is customized and contextualized to you. Imagine trying to plan and execute this, the idea is overwhelming. Contextual articles are something we haven’t seen done this well, the whole way through. It pushes the medium..”
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SND Digital: Silver to NY Times for California drought project
What the judges said: “It challenges the assumption that we should represent this type of information with charts. We relate to what we eat, not to the numbers. Someone has thought this relationship through. The video executions are so well…
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SND Digital: Silver to NY Times for oil price graphic
What the judges said: “Extremely complicated to script and execute. It’s easy to downplay the difficulty because it looks so seamless and well-done. This pushes the state of drill-down aggregate charts. It moves you around in a smart, calculated way,…
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SND Digital: Silver to Guardian for Homan Square
What the judges said: “The transitions are useful in moving you from moment to moment – and they’re super-fast. For how complex the technical approach is, the speed component is impressive – we should all put a priority on speed.…
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SND Digital: Silver to Marshall Project for ‘Next to Die’
What the judges said: “There is something powerful about the faceless nature of the visualization, it eliminates assumptions you might have based on race, style, other attributes. It’s generalized to point of just being a human being, that is what…
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SND Digital: Silver to Tampa Bay Times for ‘Pinellas County’
What the judges said: “This tells a very important story, and it does so with inventiveness. We often don’t allow ourselves to take chances with important stories. Putting the data into a new narrative structure, and incorporating the narrative into…
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SND Digital: Silver to Washington Post for ‘How Dry is California?’
What the judges said: “This is a classic example of “show, don’t tell.” It takes a tough topic and helps the reader understand it in a surprising, memorable way. Your phone almost becomes the chart. Normally we don’t like the…
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What I’ve learned as a print designer at SND digital
SND.org editor Courtney Kan shares what she learned about the Best of Digital Design competition.
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SND Digital: Silver to The New York Times for ‘Space & Cosmos’
What the judges said: “Clean and controlled. You have the opportunity to play with it; if you’re REALLY interested, there’s enough there to spend on each component. Works as a quick pass and a deep dive. The videos are exceptional.…
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SND Digital: Silver to Nat Geo for climate change package
What the judges said: “I love the art design and the variety of the language and visuals. It’s very accessible. The images work very well with it. The package was a sophisticated, simple — nothing was overwhelming. Everything makes you…