Saulo Santana

“Think visually”, in Copenhagen

Saulo Santana — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:56:43 +0000

On the 11th September I will be in Copenhagen to give a seminar-presentation about “Visual Storytelling” at the Danish School of Media & Journalism.
More informations, like how to take part of it, can be soon found at: www.dmjx.dk

→ This weekend I will take part of the “European Newspaper Congress” that will happen in Vienna, Austria. In the next days I will post updates from there.

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Saulo Santana — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:08:11 +0000

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Saulo Santana — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:06:40 +0000

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Saulo Santana — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:06:40 +0000

Best of Sports Design

Saulo Santana — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:10:00 +0000

35 Judges from all over the world were judging sport pages for the biggest News Sports Design Competition, supported by the SND (Society for News Design).

And great news! I got 2 awards in the category “Inside Pages/Special Section or Enterprise”. In total 8 awards were given in this category.

It’s a very good recognation for the first life year of BamS Sport.

Bellow the pages awarded.

The other winners are here:
http://www.snd.org/2013/04/best-of-sports-design-2012-inside-pagesspecial-section-or-enterprise/

The power of Photography

Saulo Santana — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:38:56 +0000

This week I have the honor to receive, here in my office in Germany, the visit one of the greatest Photographers I have ever worked with. Leo Correa is one of the most versatiles photographers I know. His job has inspired a whole generation of professionals and is reference in South America.

Talking to him and seeing again his job, is impossible to dont think in the power that good photography has for print media.

His job can be viewed in http://leocorrea.net

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Saulo Santana — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:24:45 +0000

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Saulo Santana — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:26:58 +0000

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Saulo Santana — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:36:18 +0000

Who will save the print?

Saulo Santana — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:50:26 +0000

I found this page (from a Swedish publication) on the tables of Syracuse, last month in New York in the SND Competition, and it called my attention.

The Center for the Digital Future (from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism) has released one year ago a study about the impact of the internet on Americans. One prediction made is that most newspapers from the US will be gone in five years and so the death goes on around the world.

Well, never ask a barber if it’s time to get a haircut, and never ask a digital center if they think newspapers will be around much longer.

I don’t believe that print media will be dead, but I love to discuss this topic for one main reason: helps me to convince people to RETHINK and stop telling stories like they used to do 30 years ago.

How will newsprint survive in the long run? I think this is the wrong question. Stories will survive, no matter in which platform you are telling them. But talking about print, I think we wont have so many newspapes as we have now, but I trully beleive in the long life for the ones who make the difference.

It is true that in five years we will hit a generation of readers who don’t remember life without the Internet. And the only thing we can already be sure about our ACTUAL readers is that he or she today is already very tech savvy. They don’t offer you a lot of time. They don’t read the newspaper like Grandfather used to read – page by page, waiting patiently to get to sports. They see a story that is interesting and they go for it immediately.

This should be enough to make us rethink our way to tell stories, making it more interesting and attractive. And for this we can not forget the power of visual storytelling – I don’t see any publication in the future alive (either print or digital) whithout using it in a GOOD and INTELIGENT away.

Bellow a funny comercial I watched this week. Ipad x print.