ACTIVITIES & PROJECTS
SND Spanish Chapter
The
Society of Newspaper Design (SND) is an international organization whose
membership comprises over 2,500 journalists and academics in more than 40 countries.
The society was founded in Reston, Virginia (U.S.A.) in 1979, and the goal of
its members is to work to change the groundwork and framework of print media
for the better.
The Spanish Chapter of the Society of Newspaper Design,
a non-profit organization, is an association of media professionals,
teachers and students from the fields of Journalism, Graphic
Design and the Fine Arts, who share the aim of improving
standards in the design of printed media in Spain. SND
Spanish Chapter is based at the Journalism Projects department
in the School of Communication at the University of Navarra.
SND Spanish Chapter was founded at the first International
Conference on Printed Media, Design and Computer Graphics
in March 1987 and has organized conferences and seminars
open to all those who work in the field of communication
in a number of cities in Europe and the United States.
One
of the initiatives sponsored by SND Spanish Chapter
is the series of Society of Newspaper Design guidance conferences
in Europe. Since 1991, conferences and seminars have
been held inZurich (Switzerland), Bergen (Norway), Stockholm
(Sweden), Prague (the Czech Republic), Paris (France),
Milan (Italy), Oporto (Portugal), Hamburg (Germany),
Vienna (Austria), Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, La Coruña,
Cadiz, Tenerife, Maó, Santiago de Compostela and
Pamplona (Spain).
In 1995, in recognition of the creativity and high quality
of design in Spanish journalism, the Society of Newspaper
Design held its first congress outside North America in
Barcelona; attendance at the Barcelona congress was the
highest ever recorded in the history of SND.
Every year since 1993, SND Spanish Chapter has hosted
the Malofiej World Awards for Infographic Design. These
awards are now a touchstone of interest and achievement
for those who work in visual journalism throughout the
world. “Malofiej”, a book comprising the winning
entries to each competition published annually, has become
a reference text for art departments in many international
press organizations. The international jury, elected each
year and chaired by Corrie Parsonson, director of Reuters
News Graphics Service (U.K.), meets every spring in the
School of Communication at the University of Navarra to
judge the competition entries and to announce the names
of award-winners.
SND Spanish Chapter also organizes the annual World Infographic
Design Summit, and the advanced infographic design workshop “Show,
Don’t Tell!”.
Malofiej Awards
The Spanish Chapter of the Society of Newspaper
Design,
based at the University of Navarra School of Communication,
inaugurated the Malofiej Awards for Infographic Design
in 1993.
The purpose of the awards is to recognize those
whose work in this area of visual journalism reflects
their artistic creativity and their commitment to
the clear communication of information.
Thousands of infographic design projects are submitted
to the competition every year, and are judged in
a wide variety of categories by an international
jury of professional and academic experts in the
fields of printed and digital media. The winners
are awarded gold, silver and bronze medals.
The Malofiej Awards, known around the world as the ‘Pulitzer
Prizes for Infographic Design’, take their name
from the Argentinian journalist Alejandro Malofiej,
a pioneer in the field of information and graphic design,
who worked for the “La Opinión” newspaper
in Buenos Aires from the beginning of the 1960s until
his death in 1987. |
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ÑH Awards
The SND Spanish Chapter established the ÑH Awards in 2004, to recognize
the achievements of Spanish and Portuguese newspapers
in information and graphic design. The purpose of
the awards is to encourage and reward high quality
visual presentation and communication of news throughout
the Iberian peninsula. The competition is based on
two fundamental principles:
1. The communication of information is more important
than its presentation: Most international competitions
of this kind are fenced in by language barriers:
the juries may not understand the language in which
it is written, so the competition entry is evaluated
primarily in aesthetic terms, with little or no reference
to its content. Given that all the languages used
on the Iberian peninsula are similar –with
the exception of the Basque language– the
content of submissions to this competition can be
given the attention and significance it is due. The
jury looks for high visual and aesthetic standards
in presentation, but also evaluates the vital relationship
between presentation and the communication of information.
2. Participation in the competition should be free:
Most media competitions charge an entry fee. Many
small and medium-sized publications cannot afford
to pay these submission fees, and are thus excluded
from competition. Larger media organizations, on
the other hand, pay exorbitant costs to enter these
competitions. ÑH Awards offers all media organizations
the opportunity to have their work evaluated and
judged free of charge. |
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