The design students at the University of Missouri had front-row seats to the SND college design contest when it was judged on campus yesterday. In between shuffling pages and posting the winners, we listened to the judges had to say about the best of college design. Here are some highlights.
1. Don’t be afraid to [...]
Greg Branson, is the art and design director at the Kansas City star.
COLLEGE: Kansas State University
COLLEGE DESIGN: Greg was a runner up for the designer of the year when he worked at the K-State student newspaper.
ADVICE FOR DESIGNERS IN COLLEGE: “Internet Internet Internet Internet Internet Internet Internet Internet Internet. You’ve gotta have [...]
Twelve design-filled hours later, here are the bios of our other two judges! The judging is over, and Joy Mayer’s about to email the winners, so check our Flickr page in the next few days as the winners add their pages!
Gayle Grin is the president of SND and art director, etc. at [...]
Congratulations to the daily designer of the year, is Kate LaRue, a graduate student from Missouri. Her use of color, concepts and strong execution are the kinds of skills designers need to keep newspapers relevant, Gayle said. “That’s the kind of thinking we need for the future is someone with concept.” Gayle said. Kate and [...]
The judges are powering through the last few daily entries. Still up is the second big winner category: Daily designer of the year. The judges frequently disagree: One will say “… and that’s what I love about this page,” to hear “Well that’s what I hated about it.” But disagreement spawns discussion. We’ll post audio [...]
The MU Journalism School’s advanced magazine design class stopped by to watch some magazine judging… designers in the (silent) hot seats as the judges discussed their work!
Here’s some shots of this part of the judging of a full magazine or special section. They said it was the hardest section yet to judge, even a [...]
We have our first designer of the year winner! Congrats to Rob Byrd from Coastal Carolina University’s Tempo Magazine. Rob Byrd wins one of the $750 travel grants to the annual SND workshop Sept. 7-9, 2008, in Las Vegas. The judges said his worked showed sparse, beautiful visual editing.
All of the finalists except one [...]
Here’s some shots of our lunch break at MU’s famous Hidelberg!
From left, Joy Mayer, design editor at the Missourian and the coordinator of the competition/SSND adviser, students Beth Androuais, Jill Smith, Megan Tate and Emily Mead, judge Greg Branson, students Victoria Millner (sort of back there) and Julia Haslanger, plus judges Gayle Grin and Reagan [...]
A brief discussion followed a lengthy examination of the overall design on non-daily papers. The judges focused their comments on how well the cover and inside fit together, and the consistency between issues.
“Other than the covers… the rest of it is very average” - Reagan
“The covers sell that better than it is” -Greg
Again, on the [...]
The judges are a little hesitant to give awards in some categories with few entries where none stand out. Thus, some have only one third-place winner and not a first or second, and some have honorable mentions with no placed winners at all.
They said they don’t want to award work that isn’t the best.
There was [...]
