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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.

The papers show the best photos

vahur — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:17:25 +0000

Estonian newspapers show the best photos of the year 2009. Here you can see the photos of business paper Äripäev (news photos and feature photos), local paper Tartu Postimees (here) and national paper Postimees (here).

Big things in estonian newspapers

vahur — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:44:09 +0000

It’s good to look, enjoy and design great/big visual things in newspapers.

I noticed some big things in estonian newspapers, which usually mean a big fotograph. When it comes to the big song festival it’s only natural that Postimees and Eesti Päevaleht had the same idea (how else can you show crowd of people and emotion. I don’t think that 6 column photo could achieve the same power). I would like to see more this kind of courage in estonian newspapers, even now in the tough times and not only in every 4 years during the song festival.

How to design Mart Poom

vahur — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:48:55 +0000

The estonian goalkeeper Mart Poom announced about his retirement. In estonian sport this is definitely big event and also important to the newspapers or so I believe. The biggest newspaper in Estonia – Postimees placed Poom on the front page, so it’s clearly important.

In my opinion this is also important event to the newspaper designers and not only the designers but all the people who are active in making those current pages, because now is the opportunity to make those pages more interesting, bigger, exciting, powerful and visually diverse than everyday pages. Poom is most definitely worth it.

To add more excitement: you can compare how did the different estonian newspapers, like Postimees, Eesti Päevaleht and Õhtuleht, solve this problem.

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.

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