This is a collection of various Society of News Design, aka the Society for Newspaper Design. I became active in SND in 1980 and served in various leadership roles until the mid-1990s. At one point I started and led the SND Foundation, a fund raising arm of the society. Some of these documents are also reflected in the “Analog to Digital” timeline, which is the heart of this project.
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October 5, 1990
Having Fun at SND Conference
At the 1990 Society of News Design conference in San Jose, there was a group of pranksters who created a "SND Funnies" publication. It poked fun at SND leaders [organization and thought] and put a little humor into an all-to-serious group of designers and graphics editors. I was way too serious myself. The humor was 'inside baseball' and some of the folks have disappeared. Many of those whose ox was gored did have a laugh.
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June 30, 1993
SND European Workshop
One of the most unusual and fun workshops that I have participated in was a tour of four European cities on behalf of the Society of Newspaper Design in 1993. Between May 7 and 15, six designers and editors gave workshops on design, photography, infographics and more to 300 participants from almost 20 different countries. Among the cities visited by Andrew Chapin, Juan Antonio Giner, Bill Ostendorf, Norvall Skreien, Deborah Withey and myself were Stockholm, Hamburg, Zurich and La Coruna [Spain]. Here's what Bill wrote for an SND publication:
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