Guest Post: Jeffrey Zeldman at the Poynter Design Challenge
Guest Post: Jeffrey Zeldman at the Poynter Design Challenge
Our friend Jeffrey Zeldman recently participated in the Poynter Design Challenge—
“a project to create new visual models for digital news publications” sponsored by William R. Hearst III, hosted by the Poynter Institute, and directed by publication designer Roger Black.
The challenge began October 17–18 in New York, with five pundits and five designers, of whom I was honored to be one, workshopping a project brief during a two-day conference event at the Columbia Journalism School.
For nearly 30 years people have been thinking about the “future of digital news.” It’s a problem so ridiculously complex and thorny that we’re still working on it—and of course, it will never be “solved,” any more than “news” can be solved, or “design.” As the showcased designs prove, there’s still progress being made.