SNDS: Winners Announced: 35 Gold/Silver/Bronze Winners

The winners in the "Best of Scandinavian News Design 2008" competition have been announced. Only two Gold medals were given – to the Danish newspaper Politiken in the category "Overall Design". Politiken was redesigned last year nad was rewarded "Best of Show" in the 2007 edition of this competition, and was also named "World's Best Designed" by the international branch of SND – the highest recognition worldwide a newspaper can get in the business.

Another gold medal was won by Finnish newspaper Aamulehti, for a page 2 design using 90 words to form the blue cross in the Finnish flag, on the day Finland celebrated the 90th anniversary for Finnish independance. The words charcterise Finland and the Finnish: Saune, ski jumping, Nokia etc. "This is the only perfect page we have seen so far," was one of the spontaneous comments made by the jury. Ari Kinnari did the design for this page, awarded in the "Open Class" category.

A total of 80 awards were given in the competition – apart from the two gold, 13 Silver Awards, 20 Bronze, and 32 Awards of Excellence. The "AHA Prize" – a special reward that the jury have the choice to give out to a page that hold an unusual design detail, went to Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) for a series of articles about identical twins in the Magazine category (below). Mirka Kolehminen designed the pages that show – in straightforward photography – how identical identical twins actually are.

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The redesign of weekly engineering newspaper Ingeniøren won a Silver award. The redesign was made by inhouse staff, graphic designers Ann-Britt Broström (Head of Design), Connie Jønsson and Lars Pryds, with the help from design consultant Koos Staal of Staal & Duiker graphic designers from the Netherlands. The new clean look of the high profiled technical newspaper was launched September 14th, 2007, with great success and massive positive feedback from the readers. Read the extensive "portayal" of Ingeniøren in SNDS Magazine 2008|1 (pdf) and in this blog post.

More info on the SNDS website: www.snds.org

All photos by Lars Aarø