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Best of Sports Design 2013: Photo Page/Poster

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Here are the Photo Page/Poster winners in the Best of Sports Design 2013. Here’s how it works: You’ll look at the winners and at the bottom of this post, you’ll vote for your favorite of all the winners. And in a few weeks, we’ll reveal THAT voting too. That’s called…

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Best of Sports Design 2013: Roundup

Society for News Design

This post will serve as a catchall link to every category and winner in the Best of Sports Design 2013. As winners are revealed, this post will update. Bookmark it for reference. You can find the list of categories and the call for entries here. Print winners will be revealed…

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Vote for the 35th book cover

Society for News Design

Judges from across the globe met in Syracuse and Indianapolis recently for the Best of News Design competitions in print and digital. Their work is done. Now we turn to you. We’d like you to be the judge of this edition’s cover. We’re asking the design community to vote on…

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A tool for providing backstory to readers at #SNDMakes

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Our team set out to answer the question of “How might we better help readers understand stories by improving the context?”.Over the two-day SNDMakes designathon in March 2014, we built Backstory. It’s a visual and structural prototype that got us thinking about how we present the news.

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A tool for browsing moving stories and long-form video at #SNDMakes

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Team green: Moving Stories Kyle Ellis is a designer for CNN Digital and digital director for SND Tory Hargro is visual designer manager at USA Today Frank Mina is deputy managing editor at the San Francisco Chronicle Zach Wise is faculty at Medill School, designer developer at Northwestern University Knight Lab Adam Baumgartner is a junior…

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Project Skim improves long-form scannability on small screens at #SNDMakes

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Team blue: Project Skim Damon Kiesow is senior product manager at The Boston Globe Adam Schweigert is director of technology at Investigative News Haoyun Su is a data journalist at the Indianapolis Star Tyson Whiting is a lead designer at Vox Media KK Rebecca Lai is a junior at Northwestern University and a Knight Lab…

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Sluice is a prototype for showing the "social gold" of a story at #SNDMakes

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Team pink: Sluice Huge Ma is a front-end engineer at Vox Media Rebekah Monson is a communication manager at the University of Miami Cory Williams is support manager at Vox Media Tim Wong is a senior digital designer at The Washington Post Katie Zhu is a software engineer at Medium Nicole Zhu is a sophomore at…

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SND35: A list of the Best of Digital Design Award Winners

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Here is the final list of winners from The Best of Digital Design competition held March 21-23 at the Ball State campus in Indianapolis. The list contains awards of excellence, silver medals and gold medals.

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