SND29 announces 4 World’s Best-Designed newspaper winners

Posted by Barbara Nguyen on February 20, 2008 at 2:22 PM

The 29th annual SND awards announced its four winners for the World’s Best-Designed honor: Moscow’s bi-weekly Akzia’s, the UK’s Guardian, Lisbon’s weekly Expresso and Germany’s weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

The judges’ panel placed the winners in categories their designs exemplified: Consistency, Surprise and Courage. The Guardian was noted for its “section-by-section consistency” and for achieving excellent daily reporting that “might take a week or more to accomplish” for other publications. The Frankfurter was praised as “consistently among the most elegant newspapers on the planet”.

Expresso was lauded for its surprising and effective use of photojournalism, while Akzia won admiration for its courageous photographic depiction of a graveyard for airplane parts. The Moscow bi-weekly was also recognized for its “unconventional typography and layouts that exuded enthusiasm,” reported the SND website.

In all, 343 dailies and weeklies from all over the world were assessed. Please visit the SND website for an informative slideshow of the winners’ top designs, and for further information on this year's winners.

Source: snd.org through Journerdism