From the Society for News Design (SND)

PNA to host SND ad design seminar in Canonsburg, Pa.

PNA is hosting the Society for News Design's one-day ad design seminar.

Event details:
Monday, Aug. 15, 2005, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Hilton Garden Inn
1000 Corporate Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317 USA
(Hosted by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association)

Speakers include:
· Alan Jacobson, Brass Tacks Design
· Steve Ruggieri, professor of advertising and senior designer, Creative Circle Advertising Solutions
· Ellen J. Meany, creative director, Isthmus Publishing Co., and senior associate, Creative Circle Media Consulting

The seminar will show you how to:
· Improve reader response for small-business advertisers with content-driven solutions
· Inspire and create top-quality ad copy
· Make your classified sections in print and online more user friendly, and keep advertorial interesting and strong
· Create reader-pleasing special ad sections that make advertisers happy, too.

Plus, the before-and-after ad design presentation is always a big hit.

This full day of training is quite affordable:
Cost is $95 for SND members; $150 for non-members. Register two or more staffers from the same paper and pay the SND member rate for each person.

SND is an international organization dedicated to improving communication through visual journalism and design in newspapers worldwide, in print and on the web.

This registration form is available on the SND Web site:
http://www.snd.org/events/events.lasso?ID=32889 or click here for a registration form.