Charles Apple

For those of you in deep depression because you missed your opportunity to throw rotten vegetables at me during my speaking gig Thursday in Cary, N.C. — you can cheer up now.

I’ll be speaking at a Society for News Design quickcourse in Waterbury, Conn., on May 31.

Our host will be Scott Griffin, design editor of The Republican-American. We’ll be focusing on the needs of small newspapers.

Three speakers have been announced so far: The distinguished Bill Ostendorf of Creative Circle Media and Vanessa Valdes, the talented features designer at The Concord Monitor in Concord, N.H. And yours truly.

Make plans now to attend! Please! Before you make me use more exclamation marks!!

Bios for the speakers are below…

—

Bill Ostendorf is president and founder of Creative Circle Media Consulting, a firm that has worked with more than 250 media companies in 34 countries and has led redesigns of more than 300 newspapers, magazines and Web sites.

Bill Ostendorf at SND/Boston last October.
—

After 18 years of balancing part-time consulting and full-time work as a newsroom editor and manager, Bill left The Providence Journal — where he was managing editor for visuals and new product development — to run Creative Circle full time in June 2000.

Bill worked as a reporter, photographer, news editor, features editor, copy desk chief, photo director and graphics director at several newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Paddock Publications in suburban Chicago, The Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho, The Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah, and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland.

Bill served on the board of directors for the Society for News Design for 13 years and also held leadership positions at NPPA. He originated the SND Quick Course concept in 1988 and ran the workshops for the first three years. He also led the SND management camps from 1991-1994. He has been a speaker at more than 400 industry workshops.

In 2004, he founded Creative Circle Advertising Solutions, which creates innovative classified, citizen journalism, social networking and Web hosting software for media companies. Clients include NBC, the Tribune Company, Post-Newsweek broadcasting and dozens of individual newspapers.

—

Vanessa Valdes is a features designer at The Concord Monitor, a 20,000-circulation daily in Concord, New Hampshire. There, she works with a small-but-awesome staff, battles nor’easters and climbs mountains.

Vanessa Valdes
—

She was also involved with the Monitor’s 2005 redesign and contributed the graphic design for photojournalist Dan Habib’s new documentary, Including Samuel.

Before moving to snowy climes, Vanessa was a designer and feature writer at The Gainesville Sun in Florida. She is a Miami native and a graduate of the University of Florida.

A few samples of Vanessa’s work:

See more in her NewsPageDesigner portfolio.

—

Charles Apple has been the graphics guru at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk since November, 2003.

Yours truly in Boston. Photo by Steve Wilson.
—

Previously, he was graphics editor of The Des Moines Register and an artist for the Chicago Tribune, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer and for small papers in Rock Hill, S.C. and Athens, Ga.

The winner of numerous awards from the Society for News Design for graphics and graphics reporting, Charles has taught design and graphics seminars around the country.

He blogs about news graphics and design at VisualEditors.com.

We’ll post more as the time draws closer. We look forward to seeing you there!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 8:43 am and is filed under Charles Apple, Graphics, Innovative ideas, Networking, News design, VizEds Blog, Workshops. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.