November 20 - December 20
Directing a documentary film project and teaching journalists how to report with video for MDP Egypt.
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I’ll be presenting “Web Video is Not Television!” at the IFRA International Conference “Design for newspapers and magazines” in Paris.
The event will place at the Executive Briefing Center Apple in Paris on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 May.
This event will be a unique occasion that will bring together those who
are confronted by the demands of newspaper design on a daily basis…
Topics include:
- Best newspapers and magazines design experiences worldtour ;
- How design for the web differs from print design?
- Videos connecting with the online audience ;
- Good web quality practice applied to design ;
- Motion design ;
- New trends in print, web and video design.
Continue reading ‘Paris: Design, video and multimedia workshop’
April 1, 2008: Warsaw, Poland
Robb Montgomery will conduct a one-day seminar on techniques for integrating reporting and editing with the visual departments.
Produced by DPMP for the Axel Springer group of regional newspapers in Poland.
Axel Springer - integrating visuals with reporting
Warsaw, Poland
April 01 — 01, 2008Video tour: Newspaper design workshop in Cairo
I am in egypt this week teaching a series of newspaper design workshops at the beginning and advanced levels. This video and photo slideshow shows students from the first day designing, presenting and critiquing prototype newspapers they created as part of the rapid-prototyping section of the training.
VIDEO: Robb Montgomery chats with Michael Cooke, Editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun-Times about the dramatic design treatment he used to draw attention to the sharp rise in shootings in Chicago’s inner-city neighborhoods. In a phone interview, Cooke explains the paper’s campaign and the inspiration for deploying this arresting design approach to the start of the paper’s coverage of the story.
Chicago’s children are dying. The statistics are undeniable, and they are staggering,” said Sun-Times Editor in Chief Michael Cooke. “The point of today’s front page was to grab readers and agree together that we can no longer turn our backs on this problem. We need to, as a city, pull together and put an end to the killing.
Continue reading ‘Chicago Sun-Times flops Page One for shootings news’
I am a little conflicted about the redesign of the Las Vegas Sun Web site.
And boy, as a visual editor, it’s hard not to like a site design that seems un-tethered from the banner ad business model.
Continue reading ‘Redesign: A closer look at Las Vegas Sun.com’
The Chicago Tribune recently raised their single copy cover price to 75 cents - a 50 percent hike - and shrunk the product to the 48-inch web width dimension.
They also took an unusual step with their brand equity - they changed their flag (a.k.a. the nameplate, masthead) from white type on blue field to blue type only, curiously matching in the most obvious of choices (”color”), the nameplates of the paper’s primary regional competitors.
The inversion of color is a fairly dramatic brand-identity change and only a jaded consumer would think the paper did it to distract from the price hike and size reduction.
A nameplate extends beyond page one. The old blue stripe nameplate was plastered on delivery trucks, news boxes as well their marketing and advertising for decades.
Today I taught a magazine design at Cairo University, Faculty of Mass Communication and in the afternoon returned to finish the last day of my four day design workshop at the Supreme Press Council.
It’s been an adventurous 30 days in Egypt training student and professional journalists under the Media Development Program.
Below are some photo slideshows from my video and design classes conducted in Alexandria and Cairo.
I am packing up for a five week trip where I will be teaching and producing journalism projects in India and Egypt. I hope to be able soon to share some video, photos and reports from the sold out Newspaper Design and Redesign workshop hosted by IFRA in Hyderabad, India.
I have learned that VizEds blogger TK Sajeev (Front Page Editor for the Malayalam-language daily in Kerala Kaumudi) will be attending the seminar as well as designers and editors from newspapers in Sri Lanka and Singapore. I have never met TK Sajeev in person though he has been blogging for Visual Editors for many years. It has been great to see what participating in the Visual Editors community has done for his work and his career.
I put a lot of time into my preparation for the classroom and I try to make the sessions inclusive and love to draw the expertise already present in the room. We will have fun and make some great progress in the seminar.
Continue reading ‘Off to India and Egypt to train journalists in visual editing’
I was frustrated that I could not find anywhere a RSS feed for jobs posted to the SND job Bank so I made one myself.
Here it is.
Continue reading ‘Employment - RSS feed for SND newspaper design job bank’
