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In 2006, the eyes of the world will be focused on Germany. But the official logo of the World Cup seems like an insult to many German designers. In the recent issue of form and here, we are presenting alternative logos of international designers, exclusive-ly designed for us. We would like to thank all who responded to our call for alternative logos.
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"Newspaper design is changing at a rate we haven't seen since the days of Hearst and Pulitzer," says noted designer Roger Black in the forward to a new collection of essays, "Contemporary Newspaper Design," edited by John D. Berry. As visuals become more important and stories get shorter, "we are seeing a new wave of newspaper design," Black says, pointing to designers such as Mario Garcia, Lucie Lacava, Simon Esterson and Ally Palmer.
Berry, a longtime design writer and editor, notes that newspaper designs cross the oceans more frequently these days, "partly because of the way the same consultants get hired to work on redesigns all over the world." In the pages that follow, various designers explain the history and evolution of newspaper production, from the days of metal type to today's digital page composition.
In one of the essays, Black details his design work at the Los Angeles Times, beginning in 1998, and recalls how his team's work was caught in the middle of the Staples Center fiasco. A new prototype, including a daily sports tab, had been approved for implementation but was stopped cold when it became public that the Times had a secret deal to share advertising revenues with the Staples Center. "Before we knew it, our main contact, John Lindsay, was fired, presumably for throwing up the first red flag about the
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The deadline for this year's Magazine Design Awards has been extended until Friday 30 July.
Now on their sixth year, the awards - sponsored by Media Week's sister-title, Press Gazette - recognise innovation and creativity in the fiercely competitive consumer, customer, business magazine and newspaper supplement markets.
Last year's overall winner was The Observer for its one-off Crime Uncovered supplement.
Other awards went to Marie Claire (consumer over 40,000 sales), Icon (B2B), Carlos (customer) and Arena (consumer under 40,000 sales).
The judging panel for this year's awards includes: Andy Cowles, creative director of IPC Media, Neil Robinson, publisher of the NME, Jeremy Leslie, creative director of John Brown Citrus Publishing, Mark Porter, art director of The Guardian, and Paul Kurzeja, group art director of Emap Performance.
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Wanted: Talented Newcomers for the Live Visuals Award from Motorola
Today it takes more than a DJ to meet the demands of a great party. In recent years a self-contained art style has been developing in the clubs and at festivals- a style that in terms of dynamism and creativity is on par with the skills of the DJ.
The mobile communications company Motorola, in co-operation with flora&faunavisions - agency for visual design and with the organisers of the ContactEurope Festival, announces the first competition in the field of club visuals: The Live Visuals Award from Motorola.
A top-class jury will choose the winners:
242.pilots (242.pilots.org) USA
bowling club? (mybowlingclub.com ) FR
D-Fuse (dfuse.com) GB
flora&faunavisions (flora-fauna.de) D
Marius Watz (unlekker.net) NOR
Nik Lisak - ContactEurope (projekttor.org) D
The Light Surgeons (thelightsurgeons. co.uk) GB
PFADFINDEREI (pfadfinderei.com) D
The prizes:
1'st Prize: a brand-new Apple G4 PowerBook and a VJ gig alongside top-name DJs at a club event in the autumn.
2'nd Prize: video mixer software.
10 Runners up Prizes: newest generation Motorola mobile telephone.
Deadline for entries is 10.09.2004
All information regarding the Live Visuals Award from Motorola can be found at web site.
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StockLayouts LLC, leading provider of graphic design templates for print, has announced the release of its Volume 2 Design Collection CD. The company has also released industry- specific template collections for financial and medical businesses. Graphic designers, desktop publishers and in-house marketing professionals now have an even broader selection of cost-effective, ready-to-go design templates for creating printed marketing materials.
The Volume 2 Design Collection, a selection from StockLayouts' continually growing library, contains 61 templates for producing brochures, newsletters, postcards, ads and stationery for a variety of business types. For users with a financial or medical focus, the industry-specific collections provide creative content, grouped by industry type, at a lower price point. Additional design templates and industry-specific collections will be added to the library on an ongoing basis.
StockLayouts' royalty-free templates include customizable layout files, high-resolution stock photos and illustrations and are produced to technical standards suitable for commercial printing. They are available in a choice of file formats, including QuarkXPress(TM), Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Publisher for both Mac and PC.
In addition to providing immediate purchase an
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