The world is in black and white
Nah, of course it isn’t – but sometimes it’s just so much easier to see what the world looks like if you remove disturbing factors, like colours. I guess that is why many award-winning photographs are not in colour like the ‘real’ world is, but in black and white.
DN:s omgörning – strikta formmallar är passé
Dagens Nyheter fick ny form i höstas. Vi bad John Bark, med erfarenhet av tidigare omgörningar av DN, att intervjua Rickard Frank, tjänstledig från jobbet som chefredaktör för Trelleborgs Allehanda. Rickard kom in i processen i halvtid och uppgiften var att tillsammans med redesigngruppen slutföra arbetet med att förnya Dagens Nyheter.
Mer om nya DNs form
Af Lotta Ek, art director på DN:s featureredaktion, som tog fram grundformen för DN tillsammans med frilansande formgivaren Per Boström.
Two Danish newspapers redesigned by ribergård & munk
The Danish design company ribergård & munk has redesigned two printed news products that were released this month.
Size matters
Which size is the best for a piece of paper? For newspapers, judging from pure statistics, it’s clearly the tabloid format. Most Scandinavian papers have abandoned the old-fashioned, unpractical broadsheet years ago. In Norway practically all papers are in tabloid, in Sweden only Hallpressen print in broadsheet – and rumour has it that the only reason for this is that their printing machines simply cannot handle the tabloid format.
Politiken redesigned
The rewarded Danish newspaper Politiken has done what they call a minor redesign. The results bring mixed reviews.
Skövde Nyheter goes digital
Earlier this year, Skövde Nyheter reappeared as a free weekly in the Swedish city of Skövde and the response from readers and advertisers was extremely positive.
Smålänningen reborn
Smålänningen, published in Ljungby (pop 27,000) in southern Sweden, began a new era three weeks prior to its 90-years birthday.
See the winners of Danish magazine design award
The Danish magazine design award was given for the first time. Check out the list of winners.
Danish news media awards announced
The Danish Newspaper Association has announced the winner of its annual design competition.
Welcome to the new snds.org
Times are changing and so is snds.org website. We have restructured and redesigned our website to be able to give better and more dynamic flow of information to our members and readers
A new design for Sjaellandske Medier
17 November 2010, the two Danish local dailies Dagbladet and Frederiksborg Amts Avis launched a new design, as well as a new paper format for their second section. The local news is now printed in tabloid format.
Swedish newspaper launches free weekly edition
Even though newspaper around the globe are struggling with declining circulation there are glimpses of hope.
Stor omlegging av Fædrelandsvennen
16. april 2010 kom den norske avis Fædrelandsvennen ut i ny drakt. Læs om baggrunden for redesignet og se eksempler på det nye layout.
Nordiske aviser godt med i SND konkurrence
I konkurrencen om at være verdens bedst designede avis, som SND arrangerer, gjorde de nordiske aviser igen en god figur.
Scandinavian front pages from the US election
SNDS Magazine has an article about Scandinavian newspaper front pages during the US election. The below slide show presents some of the front pages from this coverage.
Murdoch angriper dommedagsprofeter
Rupert Murdoch langer ut mot analytikere som spår avisenes død, og regner med at bransjen vil nå nye høyder dette århundret. Men han innrømmer at bransjen må se forbi døde trær.
Finanskrisen er en gavepakke til mediehusene
En norsk forsker mener finanskrisen er en gavepakke til mediehusenes ledere som får mulighetene til å kutte litt ekstra i budsjettene.
Can weekend subscription save newspapers?
Svenåke Boström from Sundsvalls Tidning in Sweden is eager to learn the experience from weekend subscriptions.
Danmarks største avis er gået i tabloid
Tirsdag 26. august kom Danmarks største avis, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, i tabloid. Avis-designer kalder skiftet for tilfredsstillende.
Den nye forside.
Den nye 2. sektion
|
Skandinaviske aviser blandt verdens bedst designede
World Editors Forum bad fem prominente nyheds-designere om at vælge deres top 10 bedst designede aviser og top 5 bedst designede websider. To skandinaviske aviser kom ind på listen.
Formålet var at illustrere udviklingen i avisdesign.
De skandinaviske aviser, der kom ind på listen, var Politiken fra Danmark og Bergens Tidende i Norge.
De bedst designede aviser er ifølge panelet:
- The Guardian (Storbritannien)
- Politiken (Danmark)
- Bergens Tidende (Norge)
- St Petersburg Times (USA)
- Eleftheros Typos (Grækenland)
- De Morgen (Belgien)
- elEconomista (Spanien)
- Excelsior (Mexico)
- Expreso (Portugal)
- Äripäev (Estland)
De bedst designede nyheds-websider er ifølge panelet:
- elpais.com (Spanien)
- guardian.co.uk (Storbritannien)
- globeandmail.com (Canada)
- 24sata.hr (Kroatien)
- Times Online (Storbritannien)
Listen er inkluderet i en rapport fra World Editors Forum der hedder Trends in Newsroom 2008 der bl.a. handler om fusionen imellem print og web.
Læs mere om rapporten her: www.trends-in-newsrooms.org/home.php
I panelet sad:
- Jördis Guzmán Bulla fra Welt am Sonntag i Tyskland
- Lucie Lacava, anset print designer
- Robb Montgomery, CEO i Visual Editors og tidligere visual editor for Chicago Sun-Times og Chicago Tribune
- Peter Ong, australsk baseret designer med klienter i Asien og Stillehavsområdet
- Ally Palmer, direktør for Palmer Watson, som har designet stribevis af prisvindende aviser over hele verden