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SND Chicago: Advancing Your HTML and CSS Skills

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Written by Camille North, Michigan State University Kurt Cunningham and Joey Kirk are from Made by Munsters, a web development company in Indianapolis. They came to the 2019 SND conference with a fresh look on web design. The professionals focused on the idea of creating a website as efficiently and…

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SND Chicago: The Type Workshop

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#SNDChicago started off with a showcase of type mastery with type experts Roger Black, Eduardo Danilo and Lucas Czarnecki. The speaker spent the day with participants unearthing headline schedules from the 20th century, looking at how brands can leverage typography in a design system, and discovering ways to use variable…

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Accolades: Comments, tributes to 2019 Lifetime honoree Tim Harrower

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Tim Harrower, 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Related: “Saluting Tim Harrower, 2019 SND Lifetime Award recipient” CHICAGO — Tim Harrower was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award — the Society for News Design’s highest honor — Thursday, April 4, 2019, at the opening reception and awards of the organization’s 40th annual workshop in Chicago…

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Meet the SNDChicago Travel Grant winners

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The SND Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of travel grants for the SND Annual Workshop & Exhibition, celebrated in Chicago, April 4-6. AUDRIANA GIBSON Audriana Experience: My experience is largely concentrated and originates from the classroom. I discovered my interest for print design late sophomore year and the…

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SND40 judging closes with National Geographic Best in Show

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The 40th Best of News Design Creative Competition awarded 16 gold medals, 40 silver medals, three judges’ special recognition, and 819 awards of excellence after three days of judging at the Coliseum in St. Petersburg. After reviewing 4,831 entries, all 22 judges gathered to discuss the gold medal winners to decide…

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Judges Select 10 Finalists for World’s Best-Designed™ Newspaper

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Five judges of the Worlds Best Designed™ Newspaper competition narrowed down more than 100 entries to 10 finalists over three days of deliberations in St. Petersburg. Steve Dorsey, Javier Errea, Bill Gaspard, Suzette Moyer and Shazna Nessa first defined a shared vision and framework before paging through multiple sections from…

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SND40 Best of News Design: Day Two Recap

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The Best of News Design Creative Competition judges have awarded 12 gold medals, 28 silver medals, one judges’ special recognition, and 595 awards of excellence in the first two days (or 19 hours) of judging at the Coliseum in St. Petersburg. As we close in on the last rounds of…

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Steve Dorsey Joins SND Executive Committee

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I am happy to announce the appointment of Steve Dorsey to the Society for News Design’s Executive Committee. Steve is the VP of News Performance and Partnerships at GateHouse Media, Center for News & Design. As a former president of SND and winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award, Steve is…

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SND40 Best of News Design: Day One Recap

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Judges reviewed more than 3,000 entries on the first day of the Best of News Design Creative Competition. The judges awarded eight gold medals, 13 silver medals, and 255 awards of excellence in the first 12 hours at the Coliseum in St. Petersburg. The New York Times leads the medal…

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