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Pentagram's Michael Bierut and his seven steps to success:
- 1. Keep it simple.
- 2. Don't reinvent the wheel.
- 3. Don't reinvent the wheel, rotate the tires instead.
- 4. Do as you're told.
- 5. Steal.
- 6. Once you've come up with something, never let it go.
- 7. Make other people do the work.
The linked article [...]
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Some Monday front pages from the Boston Globe and Indy Star after Sunday night's 35-34 Colts win over the Patriots: 
Thanks to Scott Goldman and Brian Gross for these. [...]
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Polo Ralph Lauren is the official outfitter for the U.S. team at the Vancouver Olympics. The look is inspired from the 1930s designs for the team. A lot of the designs are available for purchase (but they're not cheap, of course). Great [...]
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Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto fight Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Vegas. These pages ran in the Gulf News and are courtesy designer Douglas Okasaki.
Here in Dubai the Filipino community is large, (Pacquiao) has many fans.
There [...]
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Faced with online competition from ESPN's new local sites, both the Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune have updated their sports sites. The new Boston.com site features a feed of the latest sports stories, an improved scoreboard, access to archive stories through a team timeline [...]
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The San Francisco Chronicle debuted a new look today, printing some pages on groundwood-grade paper, which gives them a whiter, somewhat glossy sheen. Might cut out the inky-finger effect, too. The entire A-section was done in the new paper and it sounds like most section fronts [...]
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Here's the final edition cover from The New York Times as the Yankees win their 27th World Series. Thanks to art director Wayne Kamidoi. The page-topping illustration is credited to Joe Zeff.
The pdf: Download NYTYankees09
And some online covers:
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If you're curious how coverage has been looking at The Philadelphia Inquirer for the 2009 World Series games, here's a peek.
The Inquirer has been producing 8-10 page special sections for game reports.
You can actually get [...]
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Oops. An ad in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. [...]
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Kevin Dame takes the numbers and crafts his own graphics at VisualBaseball. [...]
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Could you give up sports for a year? No, not YOU, the jaded journalist who dreams of it. I mean you, the diehard sports fan who can cite the 53-man roster of the 1985 Bears, the free-throw percentage of Larry Bird in 1986, or the rotation and relievers of the 1995 [...]
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It's Yankees-Phillies for the 2009 World Series. Above are some pages from a huge preview section in Wednesday's Philadelphia Inquirer.
This is an illustration that wrapped a preview section in the New York Daily [...]
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Gotta love these 1960s NBA covers from Sports Illustrated.
And then, the 2009 NBA preview ...
That's an NBA/E Getty image, by the way. [...]
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The Phillies are back in the World Series. Check out some pages from The Philadelphia Inquirer.
A four-page instant edition went to the ballpark after the win (cover above, photo spread below).
Thursday's sports front:
And check out [...]
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Designer Jeremy Yingling runs Infojocks, which specializes in creative graphics for sports.
I started Infojocks straight out of college in an effort to combine my publication design major with two of my passions ? statistics and sports. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, the original [...]
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Beautifully designed cover from today's Star Tribune in Minneapolis, after the Twins were eliminated from the postseason and played their final game at the Metrodome.
Elsewhere, did you see the page from the Indianapolis Star posted by Charles Apple? That's some scary advertising creep. [...]
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ESPN The Magazine previews its "Body Issue". Wow. [...]
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How bout them Twins? Minnesota rallies to win one of the great one-game playoffs of all-time, knocking off the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central.
A few covers from the Star Tribune, above.
Check out the sideways sports [...]
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APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) launched its new site today. Formerly housed by the Dallas Morning News and webmaster Chuck Grimes, the new site is affiliated with Indiana University, which also recently launched sportsjournalism.org. The APSE site now allows for direct posting by article authors [...]
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Thoughts and condolences go out to the Baltimore Sun and to the family and friends of AME Tim Wheatley, who was killed this morning in a traffic accident while taking his daughter to school. The full story is here. Tim was AME/Business when he was killed. He was a former [...]
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Check out some NHL previews in print from this week. 
That's from the National Post. Illustration by Mike Faille. The game is basically a Leafs timeline.
The Buffalo News, design by Vince Chiaramonte and illustration by Daniel Zakroczemski.
From the [...]
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Updated. Nebraska played a home game Saturday in front of the 300th-consecutive sellout crowd at Memorial Stadium. The Huskers beat Louisiana College Prep 55-0. One more touchdown would have been apropos, as the Huskers' sellout streak began in 1962. The Omaha World-Herald, the next day, went retro on its Postgame section, [...]
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The Detroit Lions snap a 19-game losing streak, knocking off the Washington Redskins on Sunday. 
Writes Mitch Albom: After 644 losing days, 21 losing months, 18 losing Sundays, one losing Thursday, four starting quarterbacks, one fired coach, one tar-and-feathered team president and a million bad jokes about [...]
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Monday's Minneapolis Star Tribune sports front: 
LOVE the look of the mascot in the lead photo. Thanks to Phill Spiker for sharing. [...]
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SND voting closes tonight. If you're a member and you haven't yet voted, and you want a say in the future of the organization, please take the time to cast a vote. I won't rehash my feelings or endorsement. You can find them here if you are interested. [...]
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Head over to SPD.org for a look at more designs from Field & Stream magazine, via art director Neil Jamieson. Quite a few animal heads and quite a few cool ideas. [...]
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Check out the Redskins Gameday feature at The Washington Post. Thanks go to WP designer Chris Rukan for posting the link over at Facebook.
How complicated is this? Well, it is a customized module. You've got some "Madden 07"-style animations (Rukan suggested he used AfterEffects to [...]
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John O'Nolan authors an essay over at webdesignerdepot on the difference between art and design. I recommend it and it certainly got me thinking. Essentially, art is about inspiration and design is about function. We need to keep that in mind. It's tempting to slip [...]
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The Columbus Dispatch is again this season producing its Ohio State GameDay+ publication, which is inserted in the Saturday paper and sold individually. You may remember some coverage last year of the product. 
These [...]
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The Oregonian has been using a simple interactive graphic before Ducks games this season allowing fans to imagine the team's uniform combination. It's credited to Steve Cowden.
Nice thing is the blog can use it week after week and it's pretty fun. [...]
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Looking for examples of good site designs? TheBestDesigns.com collects a simple, ongoing gallery of what's trendy. [...]
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Here's a roundup of fun stuff, beginning with the cover to a special section for John Stockton in the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Illustration by Molly Quinn.
The NFL preview cover from The Buffalo News. Illustration by Dan Zakroczemski, design by Vince Chiaramonte. Says Vince: We [...]
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Michael Jordan goes into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday.
Thursday, the Chicago Tribune published a 32-page special section on Jordan's life, tracing the impression he left on Brooklyn, Wilmington, Chapel Hill, Los Angeles (twice), Beaverton, Chicago (twice), Barcelona, Birmingham, Washington and Charlotte. And there [...]
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NFL season begins tonight and so here is a collection of notable preview covers. 
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Design by Ben Howard, photo by Peter Diana. *Update: The Boston Globe added.
The Seattle Times. Design by me, photo by Dean Rutz. Also, the cover story page, [...]
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A one-day break from football previews and Michael Jordan mania for this aside. If you are a member of SND, this one is for you. From this point forward, a few truths hold: ? No more blaming Bonita Burton for (insert criticism here). Friends, we're holding an open election. There's nothing that [...]
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Continuing the cavalcade of 2009 Football previews.
Above is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, from designer Sam Manchester.
It seems the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida SunSentinel shared many section pieces. Tebow and other pages ran in both papers. ![Azcover09]() [...]
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More previews trickling in. I think quite a few metros stuck with NFL special sections and other specials have gone away for 2009. 
Football preview from the Los Angeles Times, above. Illustration by Michael Hogue.
The Omaha World-Herald, with design credit to Tim Parks. [...]
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More football previews, focusing on covers for the most part, to save myself some time. 
The Buffalo News, above.
The Columbus Dispatch, always one to watch. RedEye in Chicago did a fantasy football cover:
And The Washington Post on college football:
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Here's the first in what I expect will be an exhaustive series of posts featuring 2009 Football previews. 
Top of the pile: The Kansas City Star(.) with illustrations by now-freelancer Noah Musser. Design by Chris Fickett, Alan Burchardt and Tom Smith.
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We all know what the annual "here's the new college football helmets" post means. IT'S FOOTBALL PREVIEW SEASON! Send yours along to Rich and myself. Also, send along the ones that are no longer previews due to space cuts. Morbid curiosity is running rampant. Whose previews have been gutted, especially traditional major [...]
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Here are the new helmets for Div. I college football teams for the 2009 season. Images via the uber site, The Helmet Project. Obviously, this does not include the various Oregon abominations. [...]
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Over at SPD.org (you do have that bookmarked, yes?), they have a look at some redesign work for Men's Health magazine, posted by Brandon Kavulla. Rounded san-serifs have been so trendy of late it's interesting to see a [...]
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Jacoby Ellsbury is all-but-assured of setting the Red Sox single-season stolen base record (although he was caught stealing Sunday night).
The Boston Globe produced an interactive graphic on Ellsbury, explaining his stealing technique. A lot of it is Baseball 101, but you do [...]
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So if you have not heard, SND will be holding open elections
this fall. The presidency, in the wake of Bonita Burton?s announcement last
week that she will not run for the office, will be decided in an election which will involve Kris Veisselman and Jeff Goertzen. Let?s get the re-hashing and reaction [...]
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The Star-Tribune did six pages on Favre on Wednesday.
 A PDF of the full monty out of Minneapolis: Download Stribfavresection Thanks to Bob Timmons for sharing. [...]
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A couple more pages from the Brett Favre news in Wednesday's newspapers. Above, the cover from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, with an insane photo illustration by Sam Manchester. (Supersize view here). And this is the cover from a bonus section in the [...]
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Brett who? Since I featured the Star Tribune in yesterday's post, here's how things looked today in the rival Pioneer Press as big news struck the Twin Cities. Over at the Vikings' official site, it was gag-worthy adoration. There's [...]
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Stunning finish to the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine, with little-known Y.E. Yang beating Tiger Woods in the final round. The Minneapolis Star Tribune produced daily special sections for five days. Here are some highlights. (There were a few more cool pages [...]
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The front page of today's Philadelphia Daily News, in the wake of the Eagles signing Michael Vick:
 DN columnist Rick Hoffman calls it an uncharacteristic move for the franchise. And the Inquirer's John Gonzalez calls it a shocker. [...]
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The U.S. fell to 0-23-1 on Mexican soil with a 2-1 loss against Mexico in a World Cup qualifier this week. These are some pages from Mexico City's award-winning Excelsior newspaper. Take a closer look at the details in the two-page spread [...]
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Two things happened today. Kris Veisselman officially sought the SND president position, via a write-in campaign. And Bonita Burton announced she will not seek the same position. Classy moves by both. Today, the organization and its future were given top priority. [...]
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Templated design may be defacto in online news and seems to be finding its way into print news these days, but templates for team uniforms? The new United Football League has released some uniform guidelines and the look is ... uh ... bland? Here's hoping the [...]
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Not sure how comfortable I am with high-school sports spreading onto the national stage, but it's not a question of if or when, it's now. 
ESPN Rise has taken coverage of the Elite 11 prep quarterback camps into the multimedia realm for 2009, with a [...]
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Well in conjunction with the launch of a new TV venture, a la the Big Ten Network, the Southeastern Conference sought to re-define its relationship with the media this past week, resulting in a backlash of 35-40 media outlets against the conference. From the above story [...]
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Well, it certainly does not feel good to be writing this. But it needs to be said now, because in a few weeks, football season starts and we can get back to what makes this site fun. Nominations are now being taken for the annual SND elections! Whew! What a relief! [...]
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GoMediaZine begins an epic - and foul-mouthed - battle of the designer ages: What's better? Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop?
It is from this stance that I ground my attack against Illustrator. ? You crash more times than Helen Keller driving a Pinto.
And that's just a sample. [...]
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Visual outlets at news publications could be part of the online future. At The Seattle Times, there's artist Gabi Campanario, aka the Seattle Sketcher. Gabi spent this weekend at the 60th annual Seafair, which features hydroplane racing on Lake Washington. [...]
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The Associated Press wants to tag and track its content online with a news registry. Truthfully, I don't get how that would work. But ... How about a hilarious spoof of the AP chart above: here. Images tagged and bagged by Tony Augusty of the Detroit [...]
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You're probably familiar with the MLB GameDay feature, which is a fantastic Web application for live game play by play. MLB is adding a social networking component to the application, allowing fans to see Twitter messages in a sidebar. Fans just send messages to the [...]
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Graphic designer Jason Santa Maria discusses the differences in design online vs. print and his own experiments in online layouts in this video. It's about 12 minutes long and seems to be a presentation to a class.
You see some of his future ideas in the last few minutes of [...]
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Nice pages from today's Indianapolis Star, following Jimmie Johnson's third win at the Your-Name-Here 400 at the Brickyard.
Cover by Phil Mahoney and cover shot by Sam Riche. The doubletruck,
with the game story, was designed by Jennifer Wright. Beautiful lead photos by Matt
Kryger [...]
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Former American cyclist Bob Roll worked on a series of video graphic novels for Versus on the Tour de France. These "Adventures from the Epic Cycle" came out before the race. For cycling fans, I suspect the story lines are pretty cool. I have no idea what they're talking about. [...]
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Updated. Mark Buehrle threw the first perfect game ever in a major-league game inside the city of Chicago on Thursday, going 27-up and 27-down against the Rays. Because I happened to be there, here is a selection of the Tribune's pages: BROADSHEET SPORTS 
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In case you missed it, Bill King wrote an excellent piece over at Sports Business Journal on the ever-shrinking sports section. SBJ surveyed 50 sports editors from many of America's biggest papers. The findings:
- Staffs are 20 percent smaller through the past 18 months
- Sections are down 20 percent in space from [...]
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Golfer Tom Watson, 59, just couldn't finish out the 2009 British Open, losing to Stewart Cink in a playoff after botching a putt on the 18th hole. Interesting tabloid coverage in Britain's Daily Record, eh? 
For your more traditional coverage, I highlighted these Brit spreads from The [...]
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The Gulf News in Dubai recognized the 100th anniversary of the International Cricket Council with special coverage recently. Check out these gorgeous pages.
Thanks to Douglas Okasaki for the images. By the way, Doug just started a Middle East [...]
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The 2009 British Open continues at Turnberry this week. Here are some pages from a preview in Scotland's Sunday Herald (that's the cover, above).
I'll add some daily coverage when it's all said and done. [...]
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Charles Apple has coverage of the All-Star Game pages from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, including a series of wrap covers. Online, here's the P-D's interactive HR Derby graphic. 
More online:
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Chris Lee photographed Albert Pujols and legend Stan Musial for this wraparound cover to a special section previewing the All-Star fest in Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. [...]
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The official poster for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics has been released.
Designed by Ben Hulse, it's a combination of paint and digital composition. Enjoy a high-resolution look here (very cool). The posters pictured are actually for both the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics. They are [...]
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Lance Armstrong was the cover boy in last weekend's L'Equipe Magazine, the French sports glossy weekly. If you're curious how L'Equipe does its daily Tour de France news covers, you can see them here. [...]
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Roger Federer's 2009 Wimbledon championship was historic - his 15th Grand Slam title, most ever. Here's how England's The Guardian covered it in Monday's print edition. 
If you are unfamiliar with The Guardian, it's a design rock in newspapers. Consistent with its gridded [...]
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Oftentimes, it's the fun stories that are most memorable. I wanted to share some work from this Sunday's Seattle Times. NFL reporter Danny O'Neil wrote about heckling - a nice offbeat, summer feature. 
Illustrations by Susan Jouflas, design by me.
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The Washington Post produced a 10-page special section previewing the 2009 AT&T National. The cover illustration is by Meredith Bowen.
The doubletruck folds into a map-like event guide. The Post's online hub for the golf [...]
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NBC Sports/msnbc.com has scooped up Pro Football Talk and the partnership debuted this week. The first-day traffic was double PFT's previous best for the date.
PFT - author Mike Florio's gossipy news feed on the NFL - has been around since 2001 but this certainly [...]
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Craig Robinson has put together a pretty cool site dedicated to his love for creating sports graphics - Flip Flop Fly Ball. Lots of fun ideas there (and the pixel portraits are great, too).
Thanks to Martin Gee for the link.
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I posted an essay earlier this year about "Online News Design and Why it Matters in 2009". I wanted to point out that the ESPN feature Outside the Lines continues to use visual journalism online. 
These features use [...]
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Just in time for today's NBA Draft, the Philadelphia 76ers have a new logo, or an old one, sort of.
The Sixers went retro and brought back their classic logo from the 1970s, although you'll notice the colors are slightly different and the "6" has been [...]
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As usual, the new Oregon Ducks football uniforms are a mixture of insane and interesting. 
The new alternate helmets include this carbon-fiber look. I suspect it will be a popular texture in designs.
All told, Oregon will have 80 different combinations (jersey/pant/helmet) at their disposal.
Did you know? [...]
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This is sort of a roundup of sports designs, from Pittsburgh to Catalonia. 
The Gulf News tends to do great doubletrucks every Saturday, including this recent one for Wimbledon.
Check out some Stanley Cup commemorative pages from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Design by Steve Ziants.
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Ok, so the various threads at update.snd.org have crystallized. A segment of the membership is very angry at how this was handled, and a segment of the membership wants to move on. It's pointed, heated and contentious. You know all these things, I won't repeat them all here. Yesterday, we had [...]
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I've been very careful not to accuse or call for heads here and will continue in this post. But I think I have made it clear that I am harboring a very real fear that we have not been told the truth in the circumstances surrounding the debacle that is [...]
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From the haze and mist of the still-lively discussion on the threads at the SND Update site, some clarity is crystallizing: We still do not know all that went on. Significant questions remain unanswered. All the facts have not been gathered. And there are those who believe we should keep [...]
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They're Twittering from the soggy U.S. Open:
And yes, you do learn what they're eating for dinner and what Ian Poulter thinks of his hairdo. Looking for other athletes on Twitter? Go to SportsIn140.com. [...]
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No rant today. Just links and good-byes. We have a timeline from the board on the events that caused Mansfield to resign. And we have Mansfield's farewell address. In this space, I've been a critic and a fan of Matt. Acknowledging that, this needs to be said, without regard to [...]
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Sammy Sosa was reportedly on the Needle O' Power back in 2003. Breaking pages from Wednesday's Chicago Tribune: 
Broadsheet pages by Liz Fitzgerald. Tab front by Dan Mann. Doubletruck PDF: Download Trib-sosadt [...]
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The Society for News Design is dead. The organization which for three decades represented the outlet for visual journalists to thrive, to receive training, to network and most importantly, to further their careers ? the organization whose tangible benefits extend into eight or nine figures, and hundreds of thousands of jobs [...]
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The LA Times didn't skimp on its coverage of the Lakers' 15th NBA championship, featuring special sections for each game report and a commemorative section in today's paper. 
Thanks to Derek Simmons for the pages. You can see some [...]
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Not sure if lopsided even begins to describe the 2009 NBA Finals. The Lakers beat the Orlando Magic in five games. Here's a look at some online and print reports from Sunday's closer. 
Sports Illustrated.com
MSNBC.com
ESPN.com From the Orlando Sentinel, the A1 [...]
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Now if the Pirates just win the World Series, it's a clean sweep for Pittsburgh ... yeah right.
The Penguins win Game 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals over the Detroit Red Wings. 
How about that poster cover from La Presse in Montreal, above? (There was a [...]
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Matt Mansfield, the driving force behind the visuals legacy at the San Jose Mercury-News and one of the most visible members of SND in the past decade, is resigning as president of the organization.
The vague official annoucement refers to internal conflicts on the SND board and Matt's desire to [...]
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Kobe Bryant as a Knick? Spike Lee thought it was a good idea and fans can vote on four possible covers for NBA 2K10, including this fantasy illustration. (Yeah, I know, cheesy publicity idea ... and it's getting 30% of the vote.) [...]
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This slipped through the cracks at the end of May. The new Texas Stadium opened then, to a George Strait concert. The Dallas Morning News did a six-page report on the opening inside the A section: 
Photography is by Tom Fox, who documented [...]
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Continuing to follow the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals. The latest pages after the jump.
From the Detroit Free Press. On to Game 7.
And from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The LA Times after Game 2.
I'll update [...]
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Pentagram led the redesign of Tennis magazine.
The covers feature a bold screen of color and a new, 70s-inspired rounded font modified from Omnes, which is also a headline font inside. The new faces [...]
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The Magic take a 25-point thumping in Game 1 of the 2009 NBA Finals. Here are some pages from Friday's Los Angeles Times and Orlando Sentinel. 
Remember the days when you didn't have front-page advertising? And we walked to [...]
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The Orlando Magic and LA Lakers duel for the 2009 NBA championship. 
Thursday's LA Times features an eight-page preview section with a cover illustrated by freelance artist Joel Kimmel, who is in part known for his LeBron comic book.
Cover to a [...]
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The Washington Huskies won the 2009 NCAA softball championship Tuesday night. Here's a look at the front page of the UW Daily. 
Page by Colleen A. Kirsten, the Daily design director. Nice touch with the hats.
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Penguins win Game 3 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals. Sports covers below from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Detroit Free Press. 
Note: Apologies to Internet Explorer users reading the site the past few days. A recent layout update had a bug in it. [...]
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