Map Prizes at SND Workshop

If you are attending the Society for News Design Workshop in Las Vegas this week, be sure to get a ticket for the raffle taking place there.  Besides lots of other great prizes, you might win a CD full of professional maps  -  or a book detailing the impact and purpose of maps throughout history!

Map Resources contributed a copy of Premier International, a collection of royalty free international maps - World maps, Globes, Continents, Oceans & Seas, World Regions.  This comprehensive map set is a great resource for any news designer who wants a quick and easy way to add maps to their work.

For an intellectual approach to the concept of maps, there's a fully illustrated book,  "Maps: Finding Our Place in the World", by John McCarter. 

"Maps ... are a form of communication, a universal language that transcends speech and culture. If you thought maps were merely aerial drawings of places that help us get from A to B, you will astonished by the depth and breadth of this book." - Nick Smith, BBC Focus Magazine

The Society for News Design Workshop is aimed at graphic design professionals in the news industry.  The workshop covers all the topics important to the industry, with over 60 sessions covering: information graphics, illustration, photography and all facets of print design -- plus multimedia innovation, Web-site design, typography, 3-D, Flash, data maps, entrepreneurship and journalism.

SND Annual Workshop & Exhibition, Sept. 7-9 at the Red Rock Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.