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mattmansfield
Karaoke King
Joined: 15 Mar 2004
Posts: 296
Location: San Jose Mercury News
Posted:
Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:37 pm
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Greetings from Spain!
The annual Malofiej Infographics Awards for both print and online have been announced by SND's Spanish chapter and we're covering it at the SND Update blog www.snd.org/update ...
The New York Times won the Peter Sullivan Award (a Best of Show for the global competition): It's for an interactive graphic, the first time the top spot went only to an online entry!
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For the first time in its 15 year history, the highest honor of the Malofiej International Infographic Awards, the Peter Sullivan Prize, goes exclusively to an online entry: The New York Times for its interactive feature Sector Snapshot, which analyzes daily behavior by sector of the companies in the major stock indexes. The jury awards this prize each year to the best of the work presented in the competition. Read the release in Spanish here: http://www.unav.es/noticias/300307-10.html
"It's excellent. It's innovate. It's creative. It's a new type of online graphic based on databases that will change daily," said juror Ramon Salaverria, from the communications faculty at the Universidad de Navarra.
"We talked a lot about what makes an infographic, but this one did more: It really becomes an analytical piece of software," said juror Don Wittekind, from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "I have just never seen anything like it before."
In addition to the Peter Sullivan Prize, The New York Times also was honored with two other Gold medals, one in print and another online. |
We also have info and downloads on the other winners, including complete lists and a document that saves all the interactives as permalink click-throughs ...
| Quote: | The jury awarded 12 Gold medals in all. Other Gold winners were Clarin (Argentina), Expresso (Portugal), San Jose Mercury News (U.S.), The Oregonian, (U.S.), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), The Guardian (UK), Welt am Sonntag (Germany), Mundo Estranho (Brazil) and National Geographic (U.S.).
The jury awarded the Miguel Urabayen "Best Map" award to Welt am Sonntag for its work explaining in detail the migration of Germans after World War II.
The entire award list: www.snd.org/pdf/malofiej7
Online winners: www.snd.org/pdf/m15online.pdf
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Kudos to all the winners! This is great stuff and we'd be happy to post images if folks send them our way. Just send to that sndwebdesk@gmail.com address and tell us where to find or attach a PDF. We can start a global gallery of winners!
Shameless plug 1: Jonathon Berlin and I have been covering Malofiej this year to try to show folks (taking Robb to heart, we do have video) who never make it to Pamplona to find out all the cool stuff at the workshop. It's a really terrific information design experience. See it all on the blog ... www.snd.org/update ... and consider a trek to Malofiej some year. Our flight was cheap and they get a great rate at the hotel here, plus the Spanish chapter has wonderful hosts so they feed you really well and you get to have lunch and dinner with people you might never meet otherwise. JB and I counted 14 different countries represented at the final night gala!
Shameless plug 2: Congratulations to my colleagues at the Merc, who took home a Gold, Silver and two Bronze medals ... Woo hoo! The Gold was for "How Stock Options Work: And what can go wrong," which looked at the backdating scandal. That's the work of Doug Griswold, Pai, Mark Schwanhausser and JB. Kudos all around!
We could not get the graphics to photograph ... so remember, post those winners if you have 'em! We'll get to work on making a Malofiej gallery! |
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Jonathon Berlin
Visual Guru
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
Posts: 59
Location: San Jose, CA
Posted:
Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:38 pm
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Thanks for posting Robb!
It's been a crazy week across the pond. Thanks for meeting us earlier in London. If anyone is headed here, talk to Vizeds, just ask Chris Courtney (right Chris?).
This has been my first time at Malofiej, the oddly named graphics workshop in Pamplona (a gorgeous place and great, great, great workshop) and it was just an incredible experience. Details at snd.org/update
A couple big discussion points on this thread and please dive in:
- What is an infographic? This was the first time EVER that an online graphic was honored as the best graphic of the year. This is a big deal. A big deal as we consider what exactly is an infographic in an interactive world. We should talk about this here. This is not a small thing.
- Information design: On its own merits, this graphic is an amazing piece of information design. How many of you out there have had discussions with your editors about what to do with your stock tables. I'm thinking most. For me, twice seriously. I'm betting that the Times has come up with a better way than any of us. Look at how you can use this graphic to discover your own story about the markets. This is a brilliant piece of programming and graphic design. Who is aiming at this? Who is trying to replace printed material with more rewarding online content? This sets the bar.
If you haven't played with it, and that's what you can do with the graphic, it's virtually a piece of software, do it now, it's just cool
See it here: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/04/02/business/20060402_SECTOR_GRAPHIC.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1175466868-ewezZGJKH0sKDcgT5+TBzw[/url] |
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