— News design: storytelling in multiple channels —
The old aunt invites to The Opera!
The old aunt in Oslo - Aftenposten - is celebrating 150 years and is pleased to be hosting this year's SNDS Workshop: Opera - storytelling in multiple channels.
SNDS is the Scandinavian department of the international network Society for News Design and has members from a wide range of occupations in the news industry - newspapers, magazines and Internet.
Take the opportunity to be updated and inspired to renewed effort in a changing media landscape.
This year's workshop will take place at the Hotel Opera in Oslo, 30. September - 2. October 2010.
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Thursday 30.09
Hotell Opera | Aftenposten
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11:00 18:00
Registration
Thon Hotell Opera.
Christian Fredriksplass 5. 1The seminar hotel is located close to the Airport Express Train Terminal at Oslo Central Station.5
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13:00 14:00
Visit Aftenposten 3
Guides: Managing News Editor Ole Erik Almlid and Digital Editor Skjalg Engebø
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14:30
Welcome to Oslo!
Chief Editor of Aftenposten Hilde Haugsgjerd.
Flagstadsalen, Hotel Opera.
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14:45 15:30
Juan Antonio Giner
«How To Re-Invent Sunday Newspaper Editions With Unique Visual Journalism.»
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15:30
Coffee/refreshments
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16:00 16:30
Simon Ewings
«Architecture and storytelling, the Oslo Opera.»
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18:00
Get-together
Buffet, Restaurant Scala
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19:30
Surprise!
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20:00
Award Show
Best of Scandinavian News Design
Hosted by Flemming Hvidtfeldt, SNDS
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Late
Nightcap at Kristiania Bar 4
100 meters from Hotel Opera, on the seaside of Oslo Central Station, you´ll find the charming seminarpub - with discounted prices for seminar participants.
Friday 01.10
Conference rooms
Flagstadsalen. Kirsten Flagstad (1895 - 1962), Norwegian opera singer, ranks among the greatest sopranos of the 20th century.
Figaro. Central character in The Barber of Seville (opera by Rossini) and The Marriage of Figaro (opera by Mozart).
Tryllefløyten. The Magic Flute/Die Zauberflöte is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Tryllefløyten
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All day
Editorial Lab
Infomaker and Trelleborgs Allehanda Development Team will host an editorial lab for participants to explore and discuss efficient workflow with the editorial system Newspilot.
Flagstadsalen
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09:00 09:40
Juan Antonio Giner
«Be aware: The tablets are ready - our Newsrooms are not!»
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09:45 10:25
Anna Thurfjell
«What makes the weekend spin»
The design concept for the weekend in SvD – and a look at selected favourites around the world.
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10:30 10:45
Coffee/refreshments
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10:45 11:25
Sven Egil Omdal
«Once Great Newspapers are Dying»
Is this also the demise of great journalism, or can the profession be successfully reconstructed?
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11:30 12:15
Mark Porter
«Channel Surfing: Editorial Design for Modern Media»
As our job grows and embraces technology, interface design and branding, is there still space for us to be art directors and journalists?
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12:30 13:00
SNDS General Assembly
Flagstadsalen
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13:00 13:45
LUNCH
Restaurant Scala
Flagstadsalen
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14:00 14:30
Terry Watson
«Small, But Perfectly Formed»
How small newspapers can achieve great design results - without spending a fortune on consultants
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14:40 15:10
John Grimwade
«Infographics Without Boundaries: It´s time to break down the barriers!»
Presenting information beyond the printed page, using interactivity, video, photography, dynamic databases, and anything else that exists in the digital world.
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15:20 15:50
Luke Hayman
«Editorial Design»
Make Them Look …and make them enjoy, be entertained and informed. A survey of devices and techniques for grabbing the reader.
Figaro
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14:00 14:30
Kjetil Palmquist
«Repackaging Content for New Products»
Experiences of Aftenposten in the process of creating new digital products.
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14:40 15:10
Kenneth Bogø
«Engage your readers and advertisers by the use of rich internet publications on any device»
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15:20 15:50
Hjärta Smärta
«Hall of Femmes»
A session about the female role models in design and art direction
15:50
Coffee/refreshments
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16:15 16:45
Kinga Sanden
«#twjourn – expand your newsroom with 140 characters»
How a small newspaper found readers around the world, got more unique international content and beat BBC in their own backyard twice (you can do it too).
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17:00 17:30
Jacek Utko
»10 Ideas to Save Your Newspaper!
The key things in making newspapers both well designed and successful.
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16:15 16:45
Espen Egil Hansen
«The story behind the hitchhiker center»
How VG nett made it possible for thousands of readers to help each other back home after the Iceland volcano outburst paralyzed European aviation
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17:00 17:30
B. Kalsnes and E. Systad
«Make the Public Work With You»
How to encourage user-created content and what to give back to your readers.
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19:00
Buses leaving from Hotel Opera
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19:30
Gala Dinner at Ekebergrestauranten
Kongsveien 15
Featuring Terry Watson: «iPad Enough!» Yet more things we love and hate about newspapers, design and the internet — all with a little bit of humour.
Saturday 02.10
11.00 - 13.00 Guided Tour of The Oslo Opera House 2
After the opening in 2008, Oslo Opera House soon became a landmark. Designed by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta, the spectacular building houses The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet. With three stages and state-of-the-art equipment the building make spossible a variety of performances andproductions. As the first opera house in the world to let visitors walk on the roof, Oslo Opera House also has become a major tourist attraction.
Some practical information:
Participation fees:
SNDS members: 795 EURO including the total program and meals from Thursday to Saturday.
Non-members: 895 EURO including the total program and meals from Thursday to Saturday. Such participation will include one year membership and the fee for members at the next year's SNDS workshop.
One day ticket: 390 EURO, for members and non-members, includes the conference program and lunch Friday October 1. Dinner is not included.
One day ticket for students: 125 EURO includes the conference program and lunch Friday October 1. Dinner is not included.
A guided tour into the Norwegian Opera is included in the participation fee, but you have to register due to limited number of places (50).
Hotel
We have pre-booked rooms for the participants at two centrally located hotels in Oslo. The conference hotel is Thon Hotel Opera. The hotel has a great view of the Oslo Fjord and the Opera House in Bjørvika. Alternatively, a low budget opportunity a short walk from the conference hotel, is Thon Hotel Spectrum. More details on the Register for the seminar>.
Airline tickets
You can book airline ticket on the registration site. Most major airports in the Nordic countries have direct flights to Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. Both hotels are located within walking distance to the Airport Express terminal at Oslo Central Station.
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Juan Antonio Giner
is the president and founder of INNOVATION International Media Consulting Group and he is based in the UK. He was the first European Director of the SND, founder of the SND Spanish Chapter and the Malofiej Awards.
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Simon Ewings
is a Senior Architect with Snøhetta and has been influential in developing several key projects, notably the recently completed National Opera in Oslo where he was Snøhettas design team leader and senior site architect.
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Dr. Mario Garcia
is CEO and founder of Garcia Media. Mario has 39 years of Design and teaching experience and has redesigned over 550 newspapers/publications/websites worldwide.
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Kinga Sandén
is international news editor and reporter at the regional Swedish daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet. She won the Bonnier Great Journalist Award, Renewer of the Year 2009, for her use of the microblog Twitter for research, finding new soursces and involving readers in the journalistic process.
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Sven Egil Omdal
is a journalist and syndicated media columnist. he has been managing editor, arts editor and multi media editor of Stavanger Aftenblad. He is a former president of the Norwegian Union of Journalist and the Norwegian Press Council, He is an assistant professor at the University of Bergen, working on a project on financing quality journalism in a changed media landscape. He is currently living in Washington DC.
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Mark Porter
is an editorial designer. He was born in Scotland and studied modern languages at Oxford University. Initially selftaught, he learnt from some of London and New York´s best art directors.
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Terry Watson
is one of the Founding directors of Palmer Watson, and have a record of creating respected, innovative and durable designs for newspapers and magazines across the world.
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Kjetil Palmquist
is Head of Digital Product Development for Aftenposten. He is spearheading development of the company's products for new digital platforms such as iPad and ePub.
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John Grimwade
is Graphics Director of Condé Nast Traveler magazine, and has his own information graphics business. He has freelanced for over 30 other magazines. Before moving to the U.S, he worked for 14 years in newspapers in London.
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Kenny Bogø
works as Business Development Manager at Adobe Systems Nordic where he focuses on rich internet experiences and how companies can expand existing business models with creative use of digital content.
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Hjärta Smärta
is an award winning independent graphic design studio in Stockholm, established in 2001 by Angela Tillmann Sperandio and Samira Bouabana.
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Luke Hayman
, partner in the New York based design company Pentagram, former design editor at the New York magazine
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Anna W. Thurfjell
has worked as an editorial newspaper designer since 2000 with the majority of that time spent as Art Director of Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm.
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Espen Egil Hansen
is the Editor in Chief og VG Multimedia' main product VG Nett. This is Norway's largest internet site with 1.5 million daily readers. VG Nett is among the few internet news operations in the world with a high profitability
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Jacek Utko
, is a polish designer, based in Warsaw. After obtaining an architectural degree, he began his career as an architect. After a few years, he became the art director for Puls Biznesu (a newspaper run by Swedish Bonnier Business Press), and then later advanced as the design director for the whole BBP group for eight Central European countries.
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Bente Kalsnes
is communication adviser at Origo.no, a Norwegian social network and the community tool for 50 local and regional newspapers