Crash! for Photographers

Photo: Jonathan Bjerg Møller

Can these young photographers change your point of view?
Charlotte Østervang goes elsewhere to find her personal photography.
Miriam Dalsgaard is the first photographer to win the most prestigious journalist award in Denmark!
Liv Carlé Mortensen uses herself in powerful amazone images.

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20 Danish awards in the 29th Best of Newspaper Design competition (updated)

Blødt oprør ("Soft rebellion") - a feature page created by Trine Münster-Swendsen – Jyllands-Posten's only award in this year's SND competition.

SND - Society for News Design - has announced the winners of the 29th Best of Newspaper Design competition. Four newspapers were named "World's Best Designed" - the most prestigious design award in the world: the German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung; the british newpaper The Guardian - a repeat winner because it does every day what others might take a week or more to accomplish; the Lisbon weekly Expresso, and finally the Moscow bi-weekly Akzia will all hold the title for a year.

In addition to these four top awards, 1,162 other design awards for journalism published in 2007 were released. The winners came from 14,818 entries submitted by 373 daily and nondaily newspapers around the world.

From the Danish media, only two newspapers found mercy with the jury. Politiken - who was named World's Best Designed last year - won 18 Awards of Excellence and one Silver Award, and Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten took home a single Award of Excellence, a design by Trine Münster-Swendsen.

No metal were given to the other Scandinavian countries: Sweden won a total of 16 Awards of Excellence (6 for Svenska Dagbladet), Finland 5 (3 of them went to Aamulehti), and Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende won a single Award of Excellence.

Read more at update.snd.org
or www.snd.org


Politiken's Silver Award winner – a magazine spread about fashion

Aarhus Kunstbygnings leder stopper

Lederen af Århus Kunstbygning, Thorsten Sadowsky, har opsagt sin stilling for at indtræde som direktør for Kunstmuseum Alkersum, der er under opbygning på den tyske ø Föhr, skriver Aarhus Kunstbygning i en pressemeddelelse.

Fonden Århus Kunstbygnings bestyrelse ønsker at ansætte en ny markant leder, der kan fastholde en stærk profilering af Århus Kunstbygning, med udstillinger af høj kunstnerisk kvalitet og vægt lagt på formidling, samarbejdsprojekter og publikumsfokus.

Stillingen slås i første omgang op på Århus Kunstbygnings hjemmeside, hvor man per 1. april vil kunne finde alle relevante oplysninger. Indtil en ny leder er ansat, overtager Jo Dam Kærgaard, formand for Fonden Århus Kunstbygning, driftsansvaret som arbejdende bestyrelsesformand i Århus Kunstbygning.

Redesigned Urban launched today

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URBAN before and after today's redesign

One of the Danish free newspapers, Urban, was relaunced today. The free tabloid has left the standard 6 column grid (with the occasional 5 column page in between) for a fixed, wide 4 column grid throughout the paper, new typography and a more magazine-like approach - although a bit tight-packed and heavy.
Gone is also the old logo with the characteristic "upside-down" capital B in the name, replaced by a heavy, compressed version in all lowercase letters.

See the difference - e-papers:
Last issue of the old design | First issue of the new design

Two Design Prizes for Ingeniøren

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Nominated for a Gold, Silver, or Bronce Award: Ingeniøren Redesign


Winner of an Award of Excellence: Inside spread from the Poly Science section

The redesign of weekly engineering newspaper Ingeniøren has been nominated for a Gold, Silver, or Bronce Award by the jury of the Scandinavian News Design 2008 competition, organized by SNDS, Society for News Design Scandinavia. The colour of the metal will be announced at the society's yearly seminar held this year in Copenhagen, May 22-24, the Copenhagen Crash Conference.

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.

Ingeniøren also won an Award of Excellence for a single spread from the Poly Science section – for an article about how our eyes make mistakes (pictured above). This spread was designed by Ann-Britt Broström and Lars Pryds in the new design, and published October 19th, 2007.

See more examples of the new Ingeniøren redesign (and other award winning Pryds news design) at pryds.com

Thinking and looking

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

Seen (by me) for the first time in "Picturing and Poeting" by Alan Fletcher

Goodbye, Ingeniøren

On January 31st, Ann-Britt and I said goodbye to the closest collegues from Ingeniøren – AB after something in the neighborhood of eight years, myself after 17 months. And we did that with a song written by Tina og Lars R. On tea spoons and wine bottles: Lars B. Go, go, go!!

Personnaly I got wonderful gifts – among them a brand new fountain pen, Gift Certificates for my account with Amazone, tasty wine in red and white, an original LR drawing, a wooden puzzle, a tray to carry it all and a real die-cast metal model Ferrari (scale 1:24) to drive home. Could you possibly ask for anything else?? Thanks, everybody.






"Picturing and Poeting" – allegedly said by Kurt Schwitters, when asked what he was going to do that day. This quote has a lot to do with making newspapers: Putting words and visuals together is what it is all about. I'm surprised I actually managed to make a whole car from alle the little bits and pieces that came out of the Ferrari box … The proud F430 sits here next to the little brother F2005 (in pure plastic, scale 1:38 …)