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Best in Europe

vahur — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:49:27 +0000

This year, the best newspapers in Europe come from Norway, Denmark, Switzerland and Germany. All in all, 226 newspapers from 27 countries took part in the 12+1 European Newspaper Award (eleventh award 241 newspapers, twelfth 219).

Since there are great differences between local newspapers, regional newspapers, national newspapers and weeklies, the principal prizes are awarded in four categories. The following is granted for exemplary design and concept with the European Newspaper Award 12+1: local newspaper, Hordaland, Norway, regional newspaper, Berliner Morgenpost, Germany, national newspaper, Berlingske, Denmark and weekly, NZZ am Sonntag, Switzerland. More information in the webpage European Newspaper Award.

Best of Scandinavia 2011

vahur — Mon, 16 May 2011 10:22:33 +0000

The quality of printed news design in Scandinavia really stepped up in 2010 compared to 2009. Unfortunately the opposite was the case for digital media. Here the presentation was put aside on behalf on the content.

That is the overall conclusion from the Best of Scandinavian News Design competition, writes www.snds.org. The high quality on print resulted in a record amount of prices in this category – 93 in total. 52 media houses entered the printed design competition. In total there were 615 printed entries. 23 media houses entered the online media design competition with 62 entries. There were given 22 awards in the online category. More information about winners www.snds.org.

The best in Europe

vahur — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:06:04 +0000

This year the European newspapers of the year come from Portugal, Norway, Denmark and Scotland. A total of 219 newspapers from 27 countries participated in the 12th European Newspaper Award.

Due to the great differences in local newspapers, regional newspapers, national newspapers and weeklies, the main prizes are awarded in four categories. The following received awards at the 12th European Newspaper Award for best design and concept: local newspaper – Diário de Notícias da Madeira, Portugal, regional newspaper – Bergens Tidende, Norway, nationwide newspaper – Politiken, Kopenhagen, Denmark, weekly newspaper – Sunday Herald, Glasgow, Scotland. Read more from here.

Best of Scandinavian News Design

vahur — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:39:50 +0000

Scandinavia’s best news design was announced at the annual SNDS seminar in Oslo.

None of this year nearly 800 entries submitted in a variety of categories received the international jury to award gold.

Silver Diploma award went to Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat/Veikkaaja, the Norwegian Trönder Avisa and Dagens Næringsliv, Swedish Sydsvenskan and Danish Politiken, who scored twice time silver. The year’s Best of Show was a sports section from Ilta-Sanomat/Veikkaaja.

All winners you can see on the SND/S webpage.

One very old infographic to look at

vahur — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:52:20 +0000

121 years ago this infographic – the game (General-Baker) appeared in a french newspaper Le Figaro. The newspaper uses irony to show that there are too many generals in France and the game illustrates how to become a general.:) It was found in a war museum in Paris. Thank you Liina-Jaanika Seisler.

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″.

Some fine infographics to look

vahur — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:27:33 +0000

At Tartu Postimees we again designed a bigger infographics: winter fishing on the lake Peipsi. The idea came from our text editor Liina-Jaanika Seiser: How can we show, with the help of graphics, what is going on in the lake Peipsi during wintertime, above and also underneath the surface of the ice. Collecting information was rather difficult, as there is no data about how many fishermen there go on the lake. But all together we found some information and the result is as following.

This graphic made me think about other fine infographics that are made in Estonian newspapers. So I browsed through some newspapers from the beginning of the year and I found six fine graphics, in my opinion.

Let’s exchange infographics!

vahur — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:46:13 +0000

I uploaded some infographics which we used in Tartu Postimees (the local supplement of Postimees, the biggest newspaper in Estonia). The purpose is to exchange ideas and to discuss about the role of infographics in todays newspapers. Greetings, infographic artists from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary etc, can you send me your works and I shall show these to other readers!

Äripäev, the Estonian business paper, sent some of their infographics. Look read more.

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.