Tag: News design
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Are you the best designed?
It’s now time to enter this year’s news design competition, organized by SNDS, Society for News Design Scandinavia. Find out more on www.snds.org or in the brochure with rules and entry forms below. The competition is open for digital and printed content published in 2013. Deadline for submitting your work is January 27, 2014. -
SNDS Magazine 4|2013
Our editors’ column in SNDS Magazine 4, 2013.
“I would feel unarmed attacking a day of creative thinking if I hadn’t read The New York Times early that morning.” – George Lois, 2012*
Advertising guru George Lois (born 1931, inventor of Big Idea advertising) may belong to a different time than the new breed of media workers, who grew up with twitter, blogs, and Facebook. But he sure has made his mark in the graphic design world, creating great art direction for Esquire Magazine, MTV, and Tommy Hilfiger to name a few.In his small book, Damn Good Advice (for people with talent) he gives some of his experience back to the next generation of creatives – in the form of short, in-your-face advice on how to be creative. His book includes the statement above – followed by this comment:
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Berlingske iPad – og grafik
Berlingske Aften er Berlingskes klokken 17-udgave – unikt indhold, kun på iPad’en. Dr. Mario R. García, som er verdens formentlig største kapacitet inden for nyhedsdesign, har netop kigget nærmere på iPad-app’en på sin The Mario Blog, og synes blandt andet, at app’en har den rette kombination af nyhedspræg og en mere tilbagelænet billedbåret fortællestil.
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VG’s great children’s drawing cover
Five years ago, at the SNDS Copenhagen Crash seminar, the Norwegian newspaper VG‘s editor-in-chief Torry Pedersen told the audience that at VG they didn’t really care much about design, with a cacophony of different typefaces in the paper as a result.
This is, of course, in itself a design statement – as design is about so much more than a consistent choice of headline type. You need look no further than to VG Nett, which has been at the very top in recent years’ Best of Scandinavian News Design competitions.
At VG they do, however, have the courage to treat their front page in ways that should inspire even the most ‘design consious’ newspapers and which matches the work of Politiken or Metropoli. This week’s Monday cover is a recent example. For a story about children feeling safe/unsafe in kindergarten, VG chose to turn the whole page into a hand drawn illustration – complete with nameplate, the special “VG gransker” logo, and promo page numbers created in children’s chalk. This may not be the perfect style book type setting, but for this occasion, the solution is nevertheless – just perfect.
PS. I’ve seen similar covers from VG almost as impressive as this, but with the ad in the bottom in ‘normal’ style. I’m looking forward to the day when an advertiser is willing to let VG give the ad the same treatment as the rest of the page. Or maybe that has already happened?
The VG nameplate and the logo for the article series, “VG gransker” (“VG investigates”), all in children’s handwriting. 
Daddy, Me, and Mummy – and handwritten page numbers. The headline (above) reads: “Mummy and Daddy think I’m safe in the kindergarten. But is it true?”. Illustration by Simen Grytøyr.
