Meet the 27 design professionals who will spend the next four days looking at more than 8,000 entries in SND’s print design competition. They have traveled to Syracuse University, where the snow swirls around them on their way to Drumlins Country Club for the judging.
News category
Paul Alexander
Paul has been the presentation editor of the St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times since 2014. Prior to that, Paul served as a designer and deputy news design director. Before joining the Times, he worked as a copy editor, features and news designer, copy desk chief, and assistant design director of the Macon Telegraph.
Andrew Stocks
Andrew spent ten years designing and art directing at The Guardian. Prior to that, he worked as a freelance designer for various publications.
Sam Manchester
Sam began his career as a reporter and copy editor at the Racine Journal Times in Wisconsin before moving to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where he became the Assistant Sports Editor, focusing on presentation. He joined the design staff of The New York Times in 2010, and was promoted to deputy sports editor in November 2014.
Janet Michaud
Janet started out as an infographic artist at The Observer-Dispatch in Utica, NY. She went to The Asbury Park Press to design Sports — and also did projects. She moved to The Boston Globe as the first sports art director. While at the Globe she also designed and launched. She took a gig as an art director at TIME magazine in NYC and was there for seven years. She left TIME in 2008 to join The Washington Post as features design director, which was another new position she established. She was on the team to redesign the paper in 2009; then redesigned and art directed the magazine in addition to managing features; then was promoted to design director for news, features and the magazine. She left in 2013 to launch Politico Magazine and to be its creative director. In 2015 she was named creative director of Politico at large.
Michael Whitley
Michael is an assistant managing editor at the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Culver City with his wife Jacqueline, and children Xander, 6; Bergen, 4; and Quinn, 2.
Long form category
Sarah Morley
Sarah joined The Independent on Sunday as its deputy art director in 2005. The Sunday paper has a very small but highly productive art department which also directs the graphics desk. As deputy art director, Sarah has been involved in various major re-designs of the paper and has won numerous SND and European Newspaper Design awards. She also enjoyed participating as a judge for SND33.
Tim Parks
Tim is the deputy news and presentation editor for the Omaha World-Herald. His work has been recognized by several design organizations, and he has won multiple SND medals and awards.
Jon Wile
Jon has done stops at Detroit Free Press, The Plain Dealer and The Washington Post before landing at American City Business Journals.
Marianne Seregi
Marianne started her career as an intern at The Washington Post, then stayed for the next eight years, designing covers and commissioning illustrations for sports, business, Sunday opinion and finally the Post Magazine. In October 2015 she joined National Geographic Traveler as its design director.
Paolo Zinatelli
Paolo is the design manager, digital, overseeing Star Touch, The Toronto Star’s new fully interactive daily tablet app. Prior to joining the Star, he was at The National Post for almost 9 years, where he was the senior designer and production editor.
Features category
Joseph Hutchinson
Joseph is the Design Director for Rolling Stone magazine where he oversees the design and visual presentation of the magazine, books and special interest publications. Under his leadership, the magazine has won numerous medals and awards for design, photography and illustration from the Society for Publication Design (SPD) and the Society of Illustrators. Before joining Rolling Stone, Joseph served as Creative Director of the Los Angeles Times where he redesigned and revitalized the Times, turning it into one of the nation’s visual journalism powerhouses. He also served as Assistant Managing Editor of The Baltimore Sun where, under his leadership, the paper earned the “World’s Best Designed Newspaper” award from SND.
Ole Gravesen
Ole has worked for several advertising agencies, newspapers and magazines over the years. He ran his own studio for 10 years – before joining the staff of Politiken about 10 years ago.
Alyson Morris
Alyson graduated from Ohio University with a BS in Visual Communication in 2011. After she interned The Gazette in Colorado Springs and The Huntsville Times in Alabama, she moved to Naples, Florida to be a features designer for the Naples Daily News. In 2012, she was hired by RedEye as an iPad designer, and was named the iPad editor a year later. In 2014 she became the design director for the publication where I get to work with my talented staff every day.
Mike Rice
Mike was a graphic design major who happened to be in the right place at the right time and stumbled into a career as a visual journalist. He has been a graphic artist, illustrator, page designer and a manager at award-winning newsrooms in Indiana, Arizona and, now, Minnesota.
Lindsey Turner
Lindsey caught the publishing bug in middle school when her class produced a Xeroxed ’zine called NOW: The New, the Old and What’s Coming, and she’s spent her entire career chasing that dragon. She is an information designer and word nerd at heart, and on a daily basis she tries to find ways to build strong teams that push for bold, creative design solutions.
Visuals category
Chris Morris
Chris is an artist/illustrator at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer: In 28 years, he’s worked at 5 newspapers, serving as a lone staff artist and also managing huge departments. He’s happiest with a pen, brush or stylus in his hand.
Karl Gude
Karl is an infographics and creativity instructor at Michigan State University. He is the former Director of Information Graphics at Newsweek magazine and the Associated Press.
Chin Wang
Chin is currently the creative director at ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. Previously, she was the design director at Boston Magazine and also spent nine years at The Boston Globe, designing everything from Page One to its Sunday magazine.
Erick Wong
Erick began as a temp hire for the Orange County Register during its transition to CCI at the turn of the millennium. He was recruited in 2006 to The San Francisco Chronicle, where he designed the Food & Wine section and for the last three years served as an art director in features.
Dan Zedek
Dan is currently design director of The Boston Globe and BostonGlobe.com. He’s been an art director at national and regional publications including Parenting, Guitar World, the Village Voice, Seattle Weekly and Dallas Observer.
World’s Best category
Genevieve Biloski
Genevieve is an award-winning editorial design editor and art director at the National Post. In the 10 years she’s been at the Post, she’s worked in every section of the paper, a tabloid, magazines and an iPad app. She’s also been involved in many redesigns and has helped launch projects from branding to content presentation.
Chris Clarke
Chris is a multidisciplinary design director from London. Currently the deputy creative director of the global media group, The Guardian—he oversees all aspects of The Guardian’s design communication both in print, digital and in physical media.
During his time with The Guardian he has been noted on numerous accounts by the Society for News Designer, It’s Nice That, Creative Review, Design Week, the D&AD as well as being part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service in journalism.
Frequently collaborating with illustrators, photographers and animators to enrich stories, he has previously been senior art director for The Times of London; a guest lecturer in typography as well as working freelance in various studios and under his own design moniker.
Adonis Durado
Adonis has been working in the Middle East for almost a decade. He operates as an adjunct design consultant with several clients in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Brian Gross
Brian has been at The Washington Post since 2010, working with a team of 25+ designers that won more than 140 SND awards last year, including being named a “World’s Best Designed Newspaper” finalist. He previously spent seven years at The Boston Globe and designed sports covers for two World Series titles, two Super Bowl wins and an NBA championship.
Haika Hinze
Haika has been working for Die Zeit since 1997. In 1998, she assisted with Die Zeit’s relaunch by Mario Garcia and served in several design divisions of the house. Since 2005, she has been the art director, responsible for the look of the newspaper and its iPad issue.
Conflict judges
Tracy Collins
Tracy has held design and content jobs in papers ranging in size from 16,000 to 600,000. He has led teams of SND Award-winning artists, designers and photographers, and national award-winning investigative reporters. He is still pursuing what he wants to be when he grows up, but hasn’t found anything better than visual journalism yet.
Jennifer Palilonis
Jennifer began her career as a news designer for the Detroit Free Press and as News Design Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. She was the sequence coordinator at Ball State University from 2001-2015. She is now the co-director of the Center for Emerging Media Design & Development.
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