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Dubai.– Two important publishing houses from the Middle East were selected in the 29th Annual Creative Design Contest from Society for Newspaper, 'Gulf News' and the new tabloid 'Business 24 7' both based in Dubai.Gulf News, already a veteran in this competition for 3 consecutive years, won 8 awards of excellence this year.
Arab Media Group's new tabloid Business 24 7 won one award. The winners came from 14,818 entries submitted by 373 daily and non-daily newspapers around the world.
The top winner in all 19 categories was the Los Angeles Times and its magazine, with 109 awards. Of the 193 newspapers from 33 countries that earned awards, the United States led with 707 awards, followed by 92 for Canada, 65 for Mexico, 43 for Turkey, 42 for Spain, 23 each for Argentina and El Salvador, 21 each for Germany, Brazil and Sweden, 20 for Denmark, 18 for England, and 14 for Portugal.
Other award winners included newspapers from Australia, China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.
'I will be very happy when an Arabic language newspaper will be selected in this competition. Many newspapers like Al Ghad, Emarat Al Youm and Al Balad are doing well, they should also participate in this event,' says Douglas Okasaki, Society for News Design Regional Director for Middle East and Africa.
The 14,818 entries were up from last year's 13,862, but less than the high of 15,020 entries in 2005. Judges honored 1,166 winners, fewer than the 1,748 in 2007, and more than the 1,135 in 2006 and 1,082 in 2005.
For the first time in the competition a judge from Middle East, Ramachandra Babu, illustrator from Gulf News, participated in judging and selecting the best pages. 'It was a great experience to see and judge the newspapers all around the globe. And it was an honour to work for Society for news design,' says Babu.
The competition also selects the world's best designed newspaper. Entire newspapers from the cover to the last page with best design are selected, and this year's 'World's Best-Designed Newspapers' are:
• Akzia in Moscow, bi-weekly, circulation 200,000
• Expresso in Paco de Arcos, Portugal, weekly, circulation 140,000
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in Frankfurt, Germany, weekly, circulation 320,000
• The Guardian in London, daily, circulation 355,750.
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Anything that claims to supply news and contains commercial advertising are trash anyway.
So that, in effect, discards 99.9% of newspapers.
The papers are cheap. The typography insane. The format terrible.
Compared with a well designed book, all newspapers look like garbage.
More to do with formula and rules. Or maybe they could spend less time on placing in the adverts and laying out the design.
Anyway, still doesn't explain why they hand out awards for it. Crap is crap. Its like giving out awards for the most creative horse shit you can find. Pointless really.
I've worked for companies such as British Airways, The BBC and Nestle to name just a few.
I left Newsprint as it was uncreative and dull. The creativity comes in the journalistic aspect, not the papers design. You are so wrong about time - some papers have been going 150 years in this country. They have had ample time to improve design. How much do they need? Your thinking newsprint is rushed - it is from a journalistic sense. However designs remain the same - working to templates.
I have no problems with reading - I didn't use the word 'Dude'. What's next a 'Buddy' or a 'Jerk'?
You know there is really only one form of English - International.
American English is just bad English.