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Best of Digital Design

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The Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design is a juried competition honoring visual and technical excellence in storytelling, graphics, social media and product design. We have released a comprehensive database of past winners, with entry links, through AirTable.  Use the filter and sort functions to view awards by year, publication or category.

SND is in the process of collating 40 years of the print competition database into a filterable Airtable file. We will post this file when it is available.

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2018 silver and gold medals – digital

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Unanimous winning entries were eligible for recognition beyond a bronze medal, with silver or gold medals awarded for outstanding work that pushes the boundaries of design and technology and helping define the state of the art for the industry. Gold: Overall Portfolio, Organization  The Pudding https://pudding.cool/2018/01/chyrons/ https://pudding.cool/2018/02/stand-up/ https://pudding.cool/2018/04/birthday-paradox/ https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/ https://pudding.cool/2018/09/jordans/ https://pudding.cool/2018/10/city_3d/ https://pudding.cool/2018/11/dearabby/ https://pudding.cool/2018/11/boy-bands/ Judges said:…

2018 results by publication – digital

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Nearly 70 different publications received 449 awards from almost 1,300 entries. Here’s the breakdown: Bronze Silver Gold Total ABC News (Australia) 6 0 0 6 Adresseavisen 0 1 0 1 The Age / The Sydney Morning Herald 2 0 0 2 The Asahi Shimbun 1 0 0 1 The Ball State Daily News 1 0…

2018 Results – Digital

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce the results of the 40th edition of its Best of Digital Design competition. The 13 judges from across the United States and around the globe reviewed 1,300 entries during three days of judging at Northwestern University’s Medill News Service campus in Washington, D.C. This is the…

Best of Digital Design complete 2018 results

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce the results of the 40th edition of its Best of Digital Design competition. The 13 judges from across the United States and around the globe reviewed 1,300 entries during three days of judging at Northwestern University’s Medill News Service campus in Washington, D.C. This is the…

Best of Digital Design silver and gold medal comments

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We’re adding medal winners as they come in throughout the weekend, so check back here for updates. ABOUT THE AWARD CLASSIFICATIONS: Bronze Medal: Work that is truly excellent. These entries should show both technical and aesthetic mastery — employing digital design principles to tell compelling stories. It is appropriate to honor work that pushes the…

2017 Medal Comments – Digital

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Gold Portfolio: Organization Infographics Staff, The New York Times: “You can get lost in every one of these stories. It’s the complicated made simple and inviting. Each piece hits a different note, features a different media type and a different technically. You can tell they are pushing themselves to use the right media for the…

2017: World’s Best-Designed™ – Digital

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  SND39 | Best of Digital Design: World’s Best-Designed™ The New York Times Multi-Sensory Design The Times continues to uncover new and illuminating story approaches to some of the most complex news events of our time. To tell the story of what happens backstage just before showtime at The Met Opera, they leveraged long, single-shot…

2017 results – Digital

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The Society for News Design is proud to announce the results of the 39th edition of its Best of Digital Design competition. The 13 judges from across the United States and around the globe reviewed more than 1,000 entries during two days of judging at Northwestern University’s Medill News Service campus in Washington, D.C. This…

SND39: The final tally

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The Society for News Design has awarded three newspapers—The New York Times, Het Parool of The Netherlands, and Die Zeit of Germany—the designation of “World’s Best-Designed Newspaper™” in its 39th annual “Best of News Design™ Creative Competition.” The Times became the first U.S. paper to win the award since it last earned the honor in…

The New York Times, Die Zeit, Het Parool named World’s Best-Designed™

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NEW YORK — The Society for News Design on Friday announced three World’s Best-Designed™ Newspapers and one World’s Best-Designed™ digital winner at its 40th annual workshop, which is being held here at The New School.