best of digital

The New York Times Magazine earned Silver for its New York Issue, an exploration of a city constantly on the rise. Category: Features: Single-subject project Title: The New York Issue Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/05/magazine/new-york-life.html Comments: “The way that they parsed out a single-topic issue was interesting. The mobile presentation is really thoughtful. The collection of current and historical information is good and…

National Geographic has won Silver for offering a bear-eye view at Yellowstone. Category: Features: Single-subject project Title: A bear’s-eye view Link: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/05/yellowstone-national-parks-bears-video/ Comments: “What sets this piece apart from being just a graphics entry is its entry point to the story. It’s really consistent in style and links together many media types in a way that doesn’t feel disjointed. There’s…

La Nacion of Costa Rica has won Silver for its story about lost artifacts.

The Wall Street Journal has won Silver for its musical algorithm breaking down the score from “Hamilton.” Category: Graphics: Features and planned coverage Title: Hamilton Link: http://graphics.wsj.com/hamilton/ Comments: “Visualizing sound is tricky but they did it “enormously well.” It’s current, fun, both think-y and quirky. Often audio is ‘listen to audio as you look at something’, but this was audio…

National Geographic has won Silver for its exploration of the Red Planet.

The New York Times has won Silver for its mapping of the 2016 Election. Category: Graphics: Features and planned coverage Title: The Two Americas of 2016 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/politics/the-two-americas-of-2016.html Comments: “It’s a creative way of doing the thing everyone was talking about. It was a form unseen before in order to make information more clear. There isn’t another way to do…

Berliner Morgenpost has won Silver for its innovative coverage of the Berlin marathon. Category: Breaking/Daily News: Planned coverage Title: Berlin city marathon 2016 Link: http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/berlin-marathon-2016/ Comments: “The simplicity of the graphic’s execution is its hallmark. It would have been easy to go over the top with annotation and explanation. The graphic was dialed in and fun and wasn’t oversubscribed. They…

Jurors have awarded The New York Times the first Silver medal of the SND Best of Digital Design competition for 2017. Judging of more than 1,000 entries began this morning and will continue through tomorrow. Category: Breaking/Daily News: Single-subject project Title: A Trail of Terror in Nice, Block by Block Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/14/world/europe/trail-of-terror-france.html Comments: “A creative way to handle a breaking…

The Best of Digital Competition judging is underway at the Medill News Service facility in Washington, D.C. Judges began the morning with brief introductions and a review of rules. From there, judges broke into teams and began to work. More than 1,000 entries were received for this year’s competition, the largest volume of entries to date. Follow along with @SND on Twitter and…