The 43rd edition of SND’s Best of Print News Design Creative Competition brings 27 visual storytellers together from around the world to evaluate the best editorial work of 2021. The judges are broken into five groups — news, features, visuals, longform and a World’s Best Designed team. There also are two conflict judges.
News Team
Jacqueline Prins American City Business Journals
Jacqueline is a visual journalist specializing in print design, storytelling and data visualization. Currently, she is a senior designer for the American City Business Journals, based in Los Angeles. Before that she has worked for The Buffalo News, Gannett Louisville Design Studio and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work has been recognized by the Society for News Design, the New Jersey Press Association, California News Publishers Association, Pennsylvania News Media Association and The Milwaukee Press Club. In her spare time she hangs out with her two toddlers and bulldog Ruby. She loves a good cup of coffee or a hike on the Great Lakes.
Tala Safié New York Times
Tala Safie is a graphic designer and art director from Beirut, based in Brooklyn. She currently works as a graphics and multimedia editor at the New York Times.
Lauren Heintzman Globe and Mail
Lauren is a Design Editor within the Globe and Mail and has been with the visual journalism team since she was heavily involved in the print redesign in 2017. She creates weekday front pages and other highly visual pieces, including collaborating with illustrators. When not designing, you might find her at a greenhouse or an antique market.
Matías Vignau La Nacion
Matías Vignau is a graphic designer who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. He has worked at La Nacion in Argentina for the last 25 years. Matías has spent the last six years at the paper in the entertainment section and before that spent 19 years in the sports section.
Heather Hopp-Bruce Boston Globe
Heather Hopp-Bruce is currently the director of visual strategy for Boston Globe Opinion. She designs microsites, creates social media campaigns, analyzes and visualizes data stories, designs for print and strengthens Globe Opinion branding in every way it can be encountered. Previously, she was the Globe’s design director. In her four-year tenure, the digital design team won 11 Society for News Design awards of excellence (including two for portfolio), one SND silver medal, two SND bronze medals, and an Eddie Prize. Her team’s work was cited in three ONA finalist honors and one ONA winner. She has personally won two dozen Society for News Design awards, including commendations for section redesign, features design, infographics, art direction and portfolio. Heather also art directed Globe Opinion’s 2014 and 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning entries.
Features Team
Jennifer Prandato TIME
Jennifer Prandato is an art director at TIME. She has worked there since 2015 and focuses on designing cover packages, special issues, features and department pages as well as multimedia content that helps translate the print product across digital and social media platforms. Before TIME, she designed for the Boston Globe and collaborated with the Chicago Tribune on its Olympics information graphics coverage.
Manny Velez Wall Street Journal
Manny is the Deputy Chief Art Director, Features at the Journal. He started at WSJ in 2002 as an Art Director in various sections throughout the paper, including the launch of the Journal’s Weekend edition in 2005. He now leads a team of very talented art directors and designers overseeing 6 feature sections.
Sean McKeown-Young Advance Local
In his years as an Art Director, Creative Director, Design Editor and Designer, Sean has been lucky enough to have a diverse career and work with a great number of U.S. publications and global news media professionals. He has won multiple AP Awards, Ohio SPJ Awards, Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, Michigan Press Association Awards, Wisconsin Newspaper Association Awards, Best of Gannett Awards and an SND placement, as well as worked on an engaging presentation for a Pulitzer Prize winning investigation. In 2014, he was promoted to Creative Director of the Gannett Des Moines studio. He worked with 22 separate news media sites that ranged in size and focus in the Midwest and Central South. Currently, Sean is an Art Director with Advance Local. He works from his quiet wooded home in Toledo, Ohio, a city that he loves. Sean has two teenage sons and a husband of 26 years.
Elaine Bradley National Geographic
Elaine Bradley is a senior design editor at National Geographic magazine. She has been a member of the design team there for 22 years, and has spent her career designing magazines with stints at Outside and Harvard Magazine. Her work has won multiple awards, including from SND and the Society of Publication Designers.
Delia Wilms DIE ZEIT
Delia graduated with a degree in graphic design in 1993 in Hamburg. She worked as a freelancer for one year in Los Angeles and Hamburg. After that, she worked for a TV Guide (development of a new magazine). In 2000 she joined the layout team for DIE ZEIT as a designer.
Visuals Team
Taylor Le Los Angeles Times
Taylor is a multidisciplinary creative based in the Los Angeles area. She is currently design director at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, Le ran her own business with a focus on creative direction and team management. Most recently, she worked with Medium, where she designed campaigns, launched initiatives, and directed art for digital stories. Other clients included the Assembly, Pop-Up Magazine, KQED, Mother Jones, the state of California and Time Inc. She also served as the interim design director for Afar Media and interim creative director for San Francisco Magazine. Prior to starting her own business, Le was the creative director for Pacific Standard, where she led all creative efforts in redesigning and repositioning the brand’s content strategy across print and digital platforms. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, the American Society of Magazine Editors, the Art Director’s Club, Folio, and Photo District News.
Steve Layton Indiana University
Steve Layton is a senior lecturer in the Media School at Indiana University, teaching classes in graphics and design. Prior to teaching, Steve worked for 20 years in the newspaper industry for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif., the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star and, for the last 16 of those years, at the Chicago Tribune. Since 2013, Steve has been editor of SND’s annual Best of News Design book.
Danielle Molette-Parks San Francisco Chronicle
Danielle Mollette-Parks is Creative Director and a masthead editor of the San Francisco Chronicle where she leads a team of designers, engineers and graphics reporters who make the visual-storytelling magic happen for its digital and print audiences. She previously worked at the Chicago Tribune, Charlotte Observer, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Miami Herald and Tampa Tribune.
Kyndell Harkness Star Tribune
Kyndell Harkness is the Assistant Managing Editor of Diversity and Community at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Before stepping into this job Harkness was a photo editor for more than five years, coordinating coverage of the Ryder Cup, two Olympics, the Super Bowl, Final Four and breaking news such as Prince’s death and occupations and protests after police shootings. Before becoming an editor, Kyndell spent more than two decades as a photojournalist, working 15 years at the Star Tribune covering communities across the state. She has taught as a photo instructor at a high school journalism camp that champions diversity of voices for 15 years. With her wife Melissa, Kyndell is also truly a part of the sandwich generation living with her son who is 11 and her mother who is 83.
Gabriel Campanario Seattle Times
Gabriel ‘Gabi’ Campanario is a Spanish-American illustrator and journalist with nearly three decades of experience working in newsrooms on both sides of the Atlantic. Before joining The Seattle Times as news artist he worked in different roles at USA TODAY, The (Palm Springs, Calif.) Desert Sun, The Reno Gazette-Journal, Lisbon’s Diário de Notícias and Barcelona’s leading daily La Vanguardia. Campanario’s illustrated column “Seattle Sketcher” appeared weekly in The Seattle Times between 2009 and 2021. In 2016, it won top place in the column writing category in the Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest. Campanario is also known for his role as the founder of Urban Sketchers, an online community and nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing and reportage. He is the author of “The Art of Urban Sketching” and “Seattle Sketcher. An illustrated journal.”
Longform Team
Matt Callahan Washington Post
Matthew Callahan is a senior design editor at The Washington Post. Matt helps oversee a multi-disciplinary team that produces the designs for all editorial surfaces of The Post, and he leads a team that builds bespoke digital experiences and the tooling behind them. He started his career as a print designer with internships at the Boston Globe and The New York Times before accepting a job at the Tampa Bay Times. Matt has won dozens of SND awards including both print and digital portfolio awards.
Andrea Brunty Gannett
Andrea Brunty is an award-winning designer with more than 17 years of experience. Currently, she’s a digital design team leader with USA TODAY Network, where she art directs and designs special projects and investigative journalism for multiple platforms. She’s also been a features editor, features designer and news designer/copy editor.
Ania Medrek CBC Canada
Ania Medrek is a Product Designer at CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster. Based in Toronto, she previously worked for many years at the National Post, designing the daily front page and weekend features
Michael Grant Get Current
Michael Grant is a journalist who specializes in UXR and editorial experience design. In 2021 he founded Get Current Studio — a design, web development and storytelling agency that reimagines the brands and products of ethnic publishers and how they meet the information needs of their audiences. Grant is an alum of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University where he explored challenges facing HBCU media studies programs and Black-owned news organizations. He is also an alum of the Google News Lab Teaching Fellowship and several other news organizations including The Center for Investigative Reporting, the San Francisco Business Times, the Star Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Chris Mihal Southern Poverty Law Center
Chris Mihal is the Director of Creative at the Southern Poverty Law Center, overseeing art, photography, video and design. He was previously the Design Director for Barron’s. After studying journalism at Ball State University, Chris worked at newspapers and magazines in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta and the Northeast, working on numerous redesigns and rebrands in editorial, marketing and advertising. Despite all the moves, he has yet to pick up a Southern, New Jersey, New York or California accent. Chris has been recognized by The Art Directors Club, Society of Publication Designers, Society for News Design, American Photography, American Illustration and Communication Arts.
World’s Best Team
Kate Elazegui New York Times
Kate Elazegui is Design Director of The New York Times Opinion desk, overseeing print and digital executions for its journalism and expanding visual alignment in Video and Audio. She was most recently the Creative Director for FiveThirtyEight, Grantland, The Undefeated and “30 for 30” films. Previously, she was a managing art director at Pentagram and held leadership positions at Punch!Media, New York Magazine, and SYPartners. She credits her early training at the Chicago Tribune newsroom as providing a solid basis for a career that has adapted to diverse platforms and opportunities. Work obsessions aside, she explores life with her wife in Jersey, dreaming of Brooklyn, and being a loving tiger mom to her almost twins, Reid and Eddie.
Lucie Lacava Consultant
Lucie Lacava is an international award-winning print and digital media design consultant. She is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for News Design, and a past president of SND. She is also a part-time lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montreal, UQAM, where she teaches typography and editorial design. Lucie aka @lulucrezia, became insta-famous after being featured on Instagram for her blue architectural gallery. She can be reached at lucie@lacavadesign.ca.
Harry Hepburn Daily Telegraph
Harry Balthazar Hepburn is an award-winning graphic designer with a strong background in editorial. He currently works as a Lead Designer for The Telegraph and has previously worked at The Sunday Times as a Senior Designer.
Frank Mina Seattle Times
Frank Mina is assistant managing editor at The Seattle Times leading teams of designers, artists and editors responsible for the presentation of the newsroom’s most engaging stories. Since joining The Times in 2015, Mina’s work has been recognized by SND and other organizations for excellence in print and digital design.
Adolfo Arranz South China Morning Post
Adolfo Arranz currently is the creative director at South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He joined the Post in 2011, after more than 12 years as an infographic artist for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. He has also worked as a creative director at Mediacorp in Singapore. He has picked up almost every major prize along the way and currently helps run the South China Morning Post’s infographics department.
Conflict Judges
Tim Goheen Ohio University
Timothy Goheen is a tenured professor at Ohio University and serves as director of the School of Visual Communication (VisCom) within the Scripps College of Communication. Goheen began his professional career in 1986 at The State, a metropolitan daily newspaper in Columbia, S.C. While at The State, he received multiple Society for News Design (SND) awards for information graphics and South Carolina Press Association Awards for news graphics, illustration and feature page design. In 1995, Goheen moved to Washington, D.C., to join the international news wire service Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services (KRT) as senior illustrator for the company’s European graphics startup. In 1997, he was promoted to art director of KRT Graphics, supervising artists and freelancers in both the U.S. and Europe. In 2014, he moved to Athens, Ohio, to become the fourth director of the School of Visual Communication, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in communication design, informational graphics and data visualization.
Nathan Estep Las Vegas Review-Journal
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, Nathan Estep worked more than two decades in newsrooms as an art director, designer, manager and educator. He is a former professor of news design at the University of Missouri and a former deputy art director of The National in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., where he helped design and launch the English-language daily newspaper. He has also worked for The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Newsday and Gannett.