Best of Scandinavian News Design 2008

The Best of Scandinavian News Design 2008 competition is now open, so it's time to find your best designs and send them in. This year the competition has twelve categories for Scandinavian media, and to get in touch with the rest of Europe, SNDS invites European newspapers to enter in two categoreies.

The categories are - In the
European Competition:
Front Pages | Feature Pages

In the
Scandinavian Competition:
Design | Redesign | Front Pages | News Pages | Local Pages | Sports Pages | Feature Pages | Sectional Front Pages | Visual Communication | Magazines | Open Class | Electronic Papers

Deadline for sending pages:
Your pages must be received by the competition committee before January 25, 2008
Rules and entry forms – go to: www.snds.org

Et 24timers job

Så fik jeg nyt job! Danmarks største gratisavis, 24timer, har netop hyret mig som visuel redaktionschef med start 1. februar '08. Det glæder jeg mig meget til – både til at komme tilbage i dagspressen, men også til at komme "hjem" til JP/Politikens Hus, denne gang dog med base på Rådhuspladsen. Dér har jeg ikke prøvet at arbejde før, men er sikker på at det nok skal blive rigtig rigtig sjovt. Formentlig bliver det lidt mere hektisk end det – trods alt – har været på Ingeniøren de seneste knap halvandet år, men 24 timer i døgnet bliver det nok ikke :-)

Se også: Pryds CV

Me and Mondrian

Gosh! I'm famous! - or at least - I'm in damn good company. With Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)! Although only in the index of the notorious yearbook "Dansk Kunst 07" ("Danish Art 07"), where by some strange coincidence, my name sits right beside the name of the great Dutch painter. He is only mentioned in a passing remark on page 86, whereas my name pops up on page 87 in a review of the opening exhibition of the City Vest Art Gallery (now: Galleri V58). So not only on the same page in the index, also on the same spread in the book. Wauw!

"Dansk Kunst", published since 1984 and since 1994 splendidly edited by Torben Weirup, is a regular institution in the Danish art world, giving a thorough overview of what happened on the Danish art scene in the year gone by.
This year's volume, however, will be the last. The big publishing company Gyldendal bought the rights to publish the book from Aschehoug last year and decided to close the project. For economic reasons? Probably. And against economy, even art will fight in vain. And Denmark has lost a great book series.

Juleudstilling i Galleri Lisse Bruun

I dag, torsdag den 6. december, er der fernisering i Galleri Lisse Bruun. Årets juleudstilling med værker af galleriets kunstnere sparkes i gang med levende musik - duoen Jarno Varsted Featuring Lady Lützen spiller elektroblues ved ferniseringen.
Velkommen til fernisering den 6/12 kl. 17-19.

Galleri Lisse Bruun, Store Kongensgade 99, 1264 København K.
www.gallerilissebruun.dk

Jeg deltager på udstillingen med fire tegninger - oprindeligt lavet på kalkepapir som forlæg til offset-litografier der aldrig blev trykt. I stedet endte de, 11 år senere, som en blanding af collage/ xerografi/ tuschtegning. Her er et par af dem (den sorte tegnetusch giver et lidt sjovt genskin):

Win! Win! Win!

The end of the year - and the first month of the new year - seems to be the time for competitions! Being a member of several design organizations, my mailboxes (both the digital and the physical one) are loaded these days with calls for entries. So get your scissors out, find your best pieces, and win! win! win!:

The Best of Newspaper Design
The 29th edition of SND's competition is now open to all general circulation newspapers published anywhere in the world. Go to www.snd.org to get inspiration and to download the entry forms and rules, which are available in both English and Spanish. For additional information and a quick overview, go to the special "How to Enter"-page. This is the competition to enter in, if you want the chance to be able to call yourself the "World's Best Designed" next year. In 2007, this title was given to four newspapers (from Denmark, Estonia, Germany and Spain respectively).
Deadline: January 17, 2008 (US entries) and January 24, 2008 (non US entries).

The Scandinavian branch of SND has two competitions - one for all categories of Scandinavian media and one for European Feature and Front Pages - which are now also open for entries.
Deadline: January 25, 2008.


Win a trip to Maui
If you do something - anything - in Photoshop, you can send your best work to NAPP - National Association of Photoshop Professionals - and win an exotic trip, worth $2,500. The categories include a variety of genres - among them are General Photography, Illustration, Artistic, Wedding and Portrait Photography, Advertising Design and others.
Deadline: December 31, 2007. Enter at www.PhotoshopUserAwards.com

Designing with type - or designing type?
TDC - the Type Designers Club - has sent out very delicate material, designed using only type and color, announcing its two competitions. The 54th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition (TDC 54) awards "excellence in in the use of typography, calligraphy, handlettering and other letterforms".
Deadline: January 11, 2008. Enter at www.tdc.org

TDC2 2008 - the Type Directors Club Annual Type Design Competition - awards "Any original designs or authorized revival typeface designs produced or published in 2007". If you're a type designer, this is the finest award you can win. So get your letters in shape, now!
Deadline: January 11, 2008. Enter at www.tdc.org

The One Show
If you're into advertising, you might consider submitting your work in the prestigious competition organized by The One Club. This competition "sets the industry standard for creative excellence with categories including print, television radio, outdoor, innovative media and marketing, and integrated branding", as it says on The One Show's website. A total of 14 categories - including Consumer Newspaper; Consumer Magazine; Outdoor; Consumer Television; and - a new category added this year - Cinema Advertising.
Deadline: January 31, 2008. Enter at www.enteroneshow.org


Art Directors - make a statement
Advertising, Playground, Interactive, Design, Photography, Illustration, Corbis Creative, and the new ADC Hybrid and ADC Sphere - these are the categories of the Art Directors Club's annual competition. The jury includes people like Nancy Vonk, Co-Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy Toronto, and Dana Arnett, founding Principal of VSA Partners, Inc., Chicago, who has worked with clients such as Harley-Davidson, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Nike.
Deadline: January 18, 2008. Sign up for an award at www.adcawards.org

Cronhammar 60 år

Den 17. december fylder Danmarks store, mest originale billedkunstner 60 år. Ingvar Cronhammar, født i Skåne, men gennem mange år bosiddende på Herning-egnen, manden bag gigantskulpturer som The Gate (1988), Juggernaut (1991) og Elia (2001), fejres med udstillinger på hele 10 danske kunstmuseer i anledning af fødselsdagen. En artikel i Politiken i dag fik mig til at bladre tilbage til den anmeldelse, Lisbeth lavede til Kunstavisen tilbage i 1988, netop da Ingvar forlod knoglerne og kastede sig over de monumentale, arkitektoniske skulpturer. Omtrent samtidig med The Gate arrangerede Århus Kunstbygning nemlig en retrospektiv udstilling med de tidlige hovedværker. Selvom de ikke fysisk fyldte så meget i landskabet, var de pågående på deres egen sanselige måde.
Lisbeths artikel fra dengang kan læses her.

Omtrent samtidig var vi i Hammerum for at lave et interview, og som det fremgår af det portræt jeg lavede af ham i dagligstuen, var Ingvars skæg dengang ikke helt så hvidt, men dog næsten lige så langt som det er i dag.

Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Ingvar!