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Svenska Dagbladet won the Best of Show

vahur — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:34:41 +0000

The online edition of the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (svd.se) won the Peter Sullivan Award / Best of Show during the 18th Malofiej International Infographics Awards.

The international jury decided to award unanimously with the Best of Show the online work titled “How did Europe vote last year Eurovision Song Contest 2008″.

Tartu Postimees has won an award

vahur — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:39:01 +0000

Tartu Postimees (Estonia) won yet again an award from a world newspaper design contest 2009, which is held by SND (Society for News Design) for the 31st time. This time the award was given to a front page from the 1st of September 2009 (The schoolyear begin), which was edited by Elina Randoja and Vahur Kalmre, graphics by Artur Kuus.

Sweden got most of the awards, 25, in comparison with other countries nearby (Svenska Dagbladet 8, Dagens Nyheter 4). 16 awards went to Denmark (all Politiken), Finland came out with 6 and Norway 2 awards (Bergens Tidende). Among other countries close to Estonia, one prize went to Russia (Moscow’s free weekly newspaper Moy Rayon). In the 2009 contest, the jury awarded 1101 awards.

The winners of European Newspaper Award

vahur — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:36:06 +0000

This year the best designed newspapers in Europe come from Sweden, Germany, Portugal and Croatia, writes in your webpage newspaper designer Norbert Küpper. A total of 241 newspapers from 27 countries participated in the 11th European Newspaper Award. Awards of Excellence are given to 108 newspapers in 21 countries.

The awards for best design and concept got in category local newspaper Smålandsposten, Sweden, in category regional newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung, Germany, in category nationwide newspaper I informação, Portugal. Judges’ Special Recognition got newspaper 24sata, Croatia.

More information you cad read in the European Newspaper Award webpage.

Estonian newspapers got three awards in this contest, all for the front pages. These newspapers are Postimees, Tartu Postimees and Äripäev.

Publico got the yellow pencil

vahur — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:01:22 +0000

This year they gave the yellow pencil award among the D&AD awards to the portuguese newspaper – Publico. In the category of magazine and newspaper design. New York Magazine received three awards in the same category.

This year they didn’t give out the black pencil award, which is more prestige. In 2006 the new design of The Guardian received the black pencil award.

Best designed newspapers in Russia

vahur — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:53:47 +0000

The papers with the «Best newspaper design» in Russia 2008 are the Moscow newspaper Aktzia and Svobodny Kurs (Barnaul). These newspapers got a silver award in the sixth edition of the Russian newsdesign award.

The winners were chosen from a field of 48 newspapers representing different regions of Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan.

The seven competition categories awarded four gold medals, 11 silver, 16 bronze, 23 awards of excellence. The gold medal were awarded to Aktzia (the front pages), Delovoy Peterburg (infographics), Delovaya Gazeta Jug (photography) and Svobodny Kurs (photography).

The more winners you can see in the SND Update.

Best Designed in Scandinavia

vahur — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:34:27 +0000

The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter is the best designed newspaper in Scandinavia. The newspaper received the only gold medal for best news design at the Scandinavian news design contest.

71 media houses from all of the Nordic countries were represented in the contest. Apart from the gold medal 16 silver diplomas, 17 bronze diplomas and 36 awards of excellence were handed out at the conference.

«It is obvious that the Scandinavian media houses still make a great effort to present news in a thrilling way. In spite of the economic crisis the printed papers are still developing. The contest shows a high standard among the printed papers in Scandinavia,» chairman of the competition committee Flemming Hvidtfeldt says.

«The media houses are developing their websites in a creative way both in presentation and solutions. The competition shows that the Scandinavian media houses have come far in the integration between online and print,» Flemming Hvidtfeldt says.

Overall Denmark received nine diplomas in the competition, Finland got 19, Sweden 19 and Norway received 23.

The full list of winners you can see here: http://www.snds.org/Vindere_2009-76.aspx

Best Designed Newspapers in Estonia 2008

vahur — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:38:38 +0000

The design competition of Estonian newspapers took place for the tenth time.

There were three categories in this year competition (overall design, front pages, news and feature pages). 19 newspapers entered their pages. Estonian best designed newspapers 2008 are Õhtuleht (circ. over 20.000) and Oma Saar (circ. under 20.000). In the category of front pages jury gave out five silver awards and in the category of news pages two gold and one silver award.

You can see all awarded entries in the webpage News Design / Estonia (www.newsdesign.eall.ee).

Kalmre organizes a sports photo contest

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:41:51 +0000

Olen saanud mitu viimast aastat osaleda Eesti Ajalehtede Liidu fotokonkursi žüriis ning üks asi, mis ikka ja jälle kripeldama on jäänud, on see, et konkursile esitatakse hirmus vähe spordifotosid. Neid peaaegu pole esitatudki. Viimase konkursi järgi võiks näiteks arvata, et Eesti spordifotograafe Pekingi olümpiamängudel toimunu üldse ei huvitanud. Kindlasti pole see nii, kui vaadata iga päev meie ajalehti, kuid millegipärast konkursil spordifotosid pole. Sport aga ei alga ja lõpe kindlasti mitte ainult olümpiavõitjate pildistamisega, hea spordifoto võib saada ka näiteks lasteaedade spordipäevalt.

Seepärast otsustasin, et korraldan täiesti iseseisva spordifoto konkursi. Äkki ärgitab see sporti pildistavaid fotograafe rohkem pingutama ning ka spordifotosid rohkem märkama. Loodetavasti tahavad sporti pildistavad fotograafid, et nende pilte võrreldakse ja ritta sätitakse. Aga peaeesmärk on ikkagi see, et spordifotot rohkem märgataks. Ja et spordifoto areneks.
Konkursi reeglid on siin:

Iga fotograaf võib esitada kuni kuus üksikfotot.

Fotod peavad olema pildistatud ja ilmunud Eesti ajalehtedes või ajakirjades (ka nende online väljaannetes) ajavahemikus 1. aprill 2008 – 31. märts 2009.

Fotod tuleb konkursile saata elektrooniliselt (aadressile: vahur.kalmre@postimees.ee), kusjuures iga foto juures peab olema ka selgitav allkiri ning täpne info, millal ja kus foto ilmus.

Fotode saatmise tähtaeg on 30. aprill 2009.

Kuidas täpselt žürii töötab, sellest juba siis, kui fotograafid sellest konkursialgatusest kinni võtavad. Igal juhul ei tuleks sellel konkursil vaid ühte ja ainust võitjat, vaid pigem spordifotode esikümme (või isegi esi kaks kümmet).

Täiendav info: Vahur Kalmre, vahur.kalmre@postimees.ee