SND/Update

There are a few more spots open for the big SND Foundation event on Sunday night. And guess what? The nation’s newspaper just profiled upscale bowling lanes and Red Rock Lanes are pretty big in the piece, which appeared in Friday’s edition. With your $50 ticket, you’ll get three hours of bowling (shoes, socks included) at the Red Rock VIP Lanes, two drinks and two raffle tickets. This year’s proceeds go to our new Edmund C. Arnold Scholarship. Purchase tickets when you register. Attendance is limited to 120!

Get SNDVegas info on your favorite mobile device! Point your iPhone or Blackberry over to m.sndvegas.com for a complete schedule of the workshop plus a handy (and quick-to-load!) map of the convention floor.

Wondering who all will be at Red Rock this weekend? Check out the complete list of SNDVegas participants over at the workshop site.

Wired Magazine started a blog, “Storyboard,” that profiles an upcoming magazine profile. “An almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature.” Creative Director Scott Dadich is sharing more details about the design process on the SPD blog.

Poynter’s Sara Quinn shares a conversation between two visual journalism pioneers. They discuss Charles’ role as a visual columnist for the New York Times, his approach and one of his some of his recent columns, such as Racism and the Race and Why is Mom in Rehab. Also, don’t miss Charles’ new Times blog, By The Numbers.

Washington Post ombudsman, Deborah Howell, tallies photos of Obama and McCain appearing in the newspaper. Ed Thiede, assistant managing editor for the news desk, said that the numbers are “eye-opening. We should be more cognizant.”

Andy Rutledge shares a prototype he helped create for Adaptive Path that imagines what the New York Times sports Web site might look like a few years into the future. It’s part of the Aurora browser concept.

“These grand designs must have stories to back them up,” Harold Evans says of recent redesigns — 35 years after publishing Editing and Design.

Mark Porter, The Guardian’s creative director, calls the redesign of the Sunday Times, “a missed opportunity.”

Meanwhile, on his blog, Mario Garcia concludes “all in all, a redesign that shows great impact, elegance of type, and one worthy of studying.”

The Blog likes a good graphics site.

But a site that does things like flow charts of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”? Or pie charts of Amy Winehouse’s responses to rehab? Or venn diagrams of people who love Ferris Bueller?

The Blog LOVES that kind of site.