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Lars Pryds
Editor / Art Director
pryds@mac.com
Tel. +45 30 53 87 14


Lisbeth Tolstrup
Editor / Journalist
mamamanus@mac.com

Editorial office:
Østerbrogade 158, 3. TH., DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark

SNDS Magazine 1 - Deadline February 15. Published mid March.
SNDS Magazine 2 - Deadline May 15. Published mid June.
SNDS Magazine 3 - Deadline August 15. Published mid September.
SNDS Magazine 4 - Deadline November 15. Published mid December.

Anders Tapola, SNDS chairman

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SNDS Magazine 2/2011

In this issue: Reportage from Make a Difference seminar in Stockholm; 25 years of seminars; It’s all about … snow – new magazine concept; SND GLOBAL: Canada and Africa & the Middle East; CARSON and Filter magazines.

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Print design up – online design down

Scandinavia’s largest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, swiped the table at this years best of Scandinavian News Design. A piece covered over four pages with graphics showing the letters P O R N won a gold medal and was elected as the best of show.

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SNDS Magazine 1, 2011 is out

»Just because you’ve got roots /
Doesn’t mean you can’t have wings«
– Jill Johnson, 2003
Editorial, SNDS Magazine 1, 2011

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Speak softly and
carry yellow stickers

There is something called “skoal ring jeans”. That is when the “skoal” of smokeless tobacco, like chew and dip, has been kept in the rear pocket of a pair of jeans for so long that it has made a white ring appear on the pocket. After one week of judging the SNDS competition I had something you could call post-it-rectangle jeans.

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It’s raining gold in Scandinavia

Last year, there was no gold winner in the Best of Scandinavian News Design competition. This year, it is almost raining with award of different kinds of metal. The entries were simply on a much higher level this year, according to the jury and its chairman, Flemming Hvidtfeldt.

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Hall of Fame – last decade’s SNDS award winners

SNDS has investigated the statistic for the SNDS Best of News Design for the last decade – since 1999. Here we can give you the total winner overview.

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Värför er det så svårt
at ta till sig positiva nyheter?

Nya plattformer dyker upp så gott som varje dag och mediebranschen försöker i alla fall att möta upp. Särskilt de senaste två-tre åren har utvecklingen gått rasande snabbt. Inte minst vad det gäller mobiltelefoner och iPads, eller som de också kallas, om man nu inte skall göra reklam: tablets (iPaden har för övrigt ännu inte lanserats I Skandinavien)

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SNDS Magazine no. 4, 2010 is now online

Portrait of award winning illustrator Philip Ytournel of Politiken; How does the news apps on the iPad perform? Board members since 1986, and contact info for all current members of SNDS at the turn of the year. Enjoy!

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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.

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En helt ledig dag (som mediekonsument)

09.34: Mobiltelefonen ringer – alldeles för tidigt. Orkar inte svara. Av avsändaren att döma rör det sig om ett redesign-projekt i sydöstra Sverige som jag är involverad i.

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Swedish newspaper launches free weekly edition

Even though newspaper around the globe are struggling with declining circulation there are glimpses of hope.

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All of the Finnish Foursome

John Bark’s redesign work with four Finnish newspapers has now materialized into print. Here are examples of the four newspapers.

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Sydsvenskan – The Missing Video

The design team from Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan took 9 news design awards in Oslo, and we had planned to celebrate with a look inside the editorial room in Malmoe. Unfortunately we had some technical problems i Oslo during the show. Well, here it is after all.

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SNDS Magazine 3/2010

In this issue: Report from the Oslo Opera 2010 seminar; nine awards for Sydsvenskan; infographics made about the BP oil pollution in the Mexican Gulf; the story of a 72-hour newspaper project in Denver; and much more.

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PUNKT!

Anders Tapola skriver om deadlinens (mulige) snarlige død med sociale medier. Hvorvidt en historie har en slutning – et PUNKT!

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SNDS Magazine 2/2010

In this issue: Opera seminar is back! SND-I has launched in Italy. Photo storytelling in Flash. iPad First Movers from Denmark. Redesign projects: Fædrelandsvennen, Kaleva and three other Finnish newspapers, Århus Stiftstidende, and: The Independant reviewed. And much, much more.

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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.

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SNDS Magazine 1/2010

In this issue: Interview with the world’s second best press photographer: Mads Nissen; full Oslo Opera 2010 seminar programme; winners found in the “Best of Scandinavian News Design 2010″ competition; iPhone is the young readers’ newspaper; Finnish Apu magazine redesigned; and much more.

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SNDS Magazine 4/2009

In this issue: Meeting people in Buenos Aires; Speakers in Oslo 2010; New Norwegian platforms; “på stan” back in tabloid; New Finnish fur for Helsingin Sanomat; Designing new typefaces; SNDS members’ list; and The chairman’s column: Nyhetsdesigner finns inte!

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Best of Scandinavian News Design competition will include mobile media

Last year SNDS upgraded the online news design competition. This year SNDS takes a further step into the online media business and will include the judging of mobile media.

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Rätt mervärde i rätt plattform ett sätt att ta betalt för journalistik?

Hur lyckas mediekoncerner behålla sin profil oberoende av vilken plattform de väljer att publicera sig på: pappersavis, nätavis, mobil, tv eller vad det nu vara månde?

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SNDS Magazine 2/2009

In this issue: Report from Oulu, first glimpse of Oslo 2010, visualjournalism.com alive and kicking again, type seminar in Copenhagen.

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Presentations from Oulu24

If you need to recap some of what you heard in Oulu or were not there we will publish presentations from speakers on snds.org. The first are allredy here.
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SNDS Magazine 1/2009

In this issue: With full coverage from the jury work in Billund, news about Oulu, interviews and much more.

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SNDS Magazine 3/2009

In this issue: Svenska Dagbladet in version 3.0; a visual journey through the city and the biennial of Venezia; a graphic designer who makes a difference; a magazine redesigned for the business elite; – and of course, reasons to go to Oslo in 2010.

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