Karl Gude

First, a news flash: Ed Gabel has just quit Time magazine after nine years to work with Joe Zeff (joezeff.com), the former Time magazine graphics director, creating one hell of a powerful 3D design duo. Ed was a pain in the butt for me when we went head-to-head against him at Newsweek. Great story-teller, great illustrator. Good friend, too. But, I don’t think that he and Joe will ever get any work done. They’ll just ride around on their motorcyles all the time.

Ed Gabel

Joe Zeff

Kevin Hand at Newsweek (kevinhand.com) rides one, too.

Kevin Hand and Imo

All these amazing 3D guys are riding. What’s UP with that, anyway? Well, since I’m taking Maya classes, I had to go get a bike, too. It’s a rule, I think.

I want to be cremated.

(Speaking of “news” flash, did everyone but me know that the word comes from “north, east, west, south,” as in it comes from all sides? It’s what a weathervane spelled out…)

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SO, I don’t normally sleep around…Honest.

I’m devoted to just one bed: my own.

But, I have a confession to make.

At SND, I blew it …

I slept around … here and there…

And I wasn’t choosy, either.

I showed no favoritism.

Sleeping with gold and silver…and rejects, too.

My warm blanket is one of two El Mundo Gold winning entries, this one for feature graphics, a tiled together look at fashion (MODA)

Thanks again, judgemates. We had a ball, and I miss you all:

The fun, passionate Charles Apple (a hell of a good writer. check out his fun blog about the judging here: http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/ and his hilarious reaction to a rotten entry, captured on video, here: http://snd28.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-vote-no-by-charles-apple.html);

Pensive Vivian

My new buddy Carrie

The talkative (NOT!) Leo.

These are some caricatures I doodled of us on the brown butcher block paper covering the tables as we discussed medal contenders along. Below us are our voting chip colors.

Photo gallery: (their bios are below)

Charles Apple with SND Scandinavia’s Anna Östlund

Carrie Cockburn and Vivian Kent

Leo Tavejnhansky with Jamila Robinson (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

CHARLES APPLE is graphics director of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk. Previously, he worked for papers in Raleigh, N.C., and Des Moines, Iowa, and for the Chicago Tribune. The winner of several SND awards for graphics and graphics reporting, Apple has taught numerous workshops and contributes to SND’s Design magazine and various online forums.

VIVIAN KENT, a freelance graphic artist for the Daily Mail in London, is a qualified cartographer. She joined the Economist in 1969, later becoming department head. Kent was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1987. Following a year at the Sunday Correspondent, she joined The Daily Telegraph in 1990, subsequently becoming deputy graphics editor. She is the winner of many awards for animated news graphics.

KARL GUDE left a 27-year news career to teach information graphics at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism. For the past decade, he has worked at Newsweek magazine. He was director of information graphics for most of that time. During the 17 years prior, he worked in a similar capacity at United Press International and the Associated Press, and at the Daily News, in New York, and the now-defunct National Sports Daily.

CAROLYN “CARRIE” COCKBURN is graphic artist in the news section of The Globe and Mail, Toronto. She has won two awards from SND for graphics at the newspaper. Previously, she ran a photography business, as well as working for the Financial Post in Toronto as the assistant photo editor and then graphic artist.

LÉO TAVEJNHANSKY, art director for O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has designed and redesigned many newspapers across Brazil. He has been working as an art director and designer since 1970. He’s received SND awards, and he’s spoken at two SND Annual Workshops. He is the subcommittee coordinator on design/photography at Brazil’s Association of Newspapers.