Monday November 16th is a milestone in the history of Helsingin Sanomat, the largest newspaper by circulation in the Nordic region, and it is also a moment when the present staff turn a new page, writes HS in their international edition.  It was on this day 120 years ago that Helsingin Sanomat’s immediate predecessor Päivälehti first made its appearance in 1889, and today has also been chosen for the launch of a new look for the daily newspaper.

The most obvious changes for the readers of the print paper will come in the shape of a new font for headlines and body texts, as those behind the venture have sought above all to improve clarity and readability.

 

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After more than six months of planning, preparation and speculation, November 2 saw the first edition of Germany’s redesigned political and financial daily Handelsblatt, writes editorsweblog.org.

The Garcia Media redesign signifies a milestone in German press, as the publication is the first quality German newspaper to make the decision to switch from the broadsheet to the compact size. As Garcia himself points out, other publishers will now be watching and gauging reactions, and asking themselves whether they should now take a similar step.

 

In the end of August Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet hit the streets in a new design. The readers could finally see the results of a years hard work.

The art director of SvD Anna W Thurfjell write about this in the SNDS webpage:

The strengths of the newspaper are different from the online. On the web it’s breaking news, reports in ‘real time’, and the materials that are unique for the web, the strengths of the newspaper is to give ‘orderly’ to give a clear picture of the news, storytelling and the experience of reading the paper with a good layout.

 

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This kind of story happened to the American newspaper – Hartford Courant, which is actually the oldest persistently released newspaper in America.

In september of 2008 the newspaper came out with a new design, in which the masthead was radically changed: instead of the traditional horizontal masthead, there was the vertical one. At that time the newspapers’ director of design Melanie Shaffer said that they also wanted to put a reference to online, which meant they wanted to use dot-com in their logo. Shaffer said that during that time the change seemed good and innovative.

Unfortunately the readers didn’t agree.

The readers’ disapproval made the newspaper carry out a quick poll, in which they wanted to know what kind of masthead the readers want. 95 percent demanded the horizontal masthead. They got what they wanted.

 

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.

 

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.

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And an interview as well.

Järva Teataja (tiraaz 5500) värskendas kujundust ning tuli uuel, 2009. aastal välja uue logoga. Seni jõulisemat kujundusstiili kasutanud ajaleht on uuenenud kujunduses kergem ja õhulisem. Eelkõige viitab sellele pealkirja uus font, mis on nüüd Whitney. Siiani must-valge logo asemel on uues ajalehelogos kasutatud sinist värvi. Seesama värv läbib ka kogu ajalehte. Järva Teataja kujundust uuendasid Vahur Kalmre ja Artur Kuus.

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