Society for News Design

The Society for News Design ( SND ) is an international professional organization with over 2,600 members in 50 countries. It was on 22 May 1979 as a non-profit organization in Pennsylvania ( USA based). Headquarters is in Orlando in the US state of Florida . It is made up of editors, publishers, designers, consultants, infographics, art directors, photographers, layout artists, commercial artists, website designers, students and professors.

founder

The SND's founding directors were Richard Curtis (The (Baltimore) News-American), Roger Fidler (Knight-Ridder Newspapers), Sara Giovanitti (The Boston Globe), Dave Gray (The Providence Journal), Robert Lockwood (The Allentown Call ) and Rolf Rehe (Herron School of Art). Rehe, the only German participant when it was founded, is an international media designer whose work has taken him to 32 countries on all continents. His redesigns primarily include daily newspapers in the USA, South America and many European countries. The name of the society was changed to Society of Newspaper Design in 1982 and again to Society for News Design in 1997 . Well-known members of the SND include Mario Garcia , a media designer who made a name for himself in Germany with the redesign of the Hamburg weekly newspaper “ Die Zeit ”.

organization

The SND is organized in 19 regional sections in North America. In addition, there are various European sections: in Spanish-speaking countries (SNDlatina), in French-speaking countries (SND-FR), in Scandinavia (SND / Scandinavia), in Estonia (News Design / Estonia) and in German-speaking countries (SND-DACH ).

Society for News Design - Germany, Austria, Switzerland (SND DACH)

The German-speaking section of the SND has the name affix DACH, which stands for the vehicle nationality symbols D for Germany , A for Austria / Austria and CH for Confoederatio Helvetica / Switzerland . At the SND Congress in Copenhagen in 1999 , some designers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland came together (including Hans Peter Janisch (D), Michael Stoll (D) and Rolf Rehe (A)) and decided to be active in German-speaking countries as well become. SND / DACH thus followed the example of Scandinavian and Spanish activities with regular meetings , workshops and seminars outside of the USA, which had dominated up until then. At the fourth meeting she was on 4th / 5th Founded May 2001 in Vienna as a non-profit organization. The Austria Press Agency (APA) hosted the founding meeting . In 2007 the SND / DACH was established as the “SND / DACH Society for News Design in Germany, Austria and Switzerland”. V. “as a registered association based in Frankfurt am Main. After no successors could be found for the departing board in 2018, the German association was liquidated. A few former members did not want to give up the association just like that, which is why Tobias Peier, Michael Adams and Sven Gallinelli re-founded the association in Switzerland. This is a legally autonomous and independent association.

International SND Congress 2014 in Frankfurt am Main

From September 25 to 27, 2014 - less than two weeks before the Frankfurt Book Fair - the Society for News Design welcomes all participants of the 36th international News Design Congress in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Frankfurt am Main and ends with the award ceremony “ World's Best-Designed Newspapers “on Saturday evening in a festive atmosphere.

Publications

Design: The quarterly magazine Design (in English) provides information on the latest trends in newspaper design and gives tips on technology, typography and design techniques.

Best of Newspaper Design: The yearbook "Best of Newspaper Design Competition" - in full color - presents around 150 newspapers from all over the world on almost 1000 images. The current 23rd edition of the yearbook - published on December 30, 2005 - comprises 272 pages ( ISBN 1-592-53169-5 ).

Gazette Europe: A quarterly PDF newspaper focusing on European design topics.

Gazette: A quarterly PDF newspaper with a focus on design topics from the German-speaking region.

Design competition

Every year the SND organizes a design competition. It is carried out together with the SI Newhouse School of Public Communication (USA). The selection takes place every year in February. The awards are presented at the annual SND congress, which always takes place in autumn. German award winners were a. The time as Best designed Newspaper , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) and Der Tagesspiegel .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Society for News Design: We're back - and we need you! Retrieved February 1, 2019 .

[1] Society for News Design: We're back - and we need you! Retrieved February 1, 2019 .