2 Awards at the Lead Awards
(photo form the Award gallery in Hamburg, Germany)
And October starts with good news! Happy to win 2 awards at the Lead Awards in Germany with Bild am Sonntag.
One award, with the special section of the 60th Anniversary of the newspaper, where we showed 60 covers from the last 60 years. The other, with 22 pages of breaking news, when the sad and unbelievable terrorist attacks happened in Paris.
The first, a celebration of journalism. The second, visual journalism in its essence, on the limit of deadline.
“60 years of Bild am Sonntag”
(check here the “making of” this cover)
“War against our way of living”
The design jury
For the third time I joined the design jury of the most important Award of the Auto industry in Europe, “The Golden Steering Wheel”. This year, designers from different areas, were in the team: Anton Piëch, Andrea Zagato, Louis de Fabribeckers, Andrej Kupetz and Paolo Tumminelli. Were fun days in Balocco with great discussions and talks about how design can create this important relation between car and driver.
(photo by Niels Starnick)
Redesigning a magazine in 36 countries
Less than 2 years ago I had the honor to redesign Auto Bild magazine in Germany. In the last months, the graphic project that I developed began to be applied in the other countries where the magazine has own versions. After Germany, the graphic project started to be implemented in the magazines from Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey, Serbia, Czech Republic (photo above) and some other countries.
AUTO BILD is the largest car magazine in the world, present in 36 countries, selling more than more than 7 million copies each month, celebrating this year its 30th anniversary.
Read more:
> In the TOP 3 of the best redesigns in Germany
> The “before x after” of the redesign.
Bellow some pages of the project in:
Auto Bild Germany
Click here to see the project details and pages of Auto Bild in Germany
Auto Bild Spain
Auto Bild Poland
Auto Bild Bulgaria
Auto Bild Turkey
Auto Bild Czech Republic
60th Anniversary of Bild am Sonntag
Bild am Sonntag is the biggest Sunday newspaper in Europe, and this week celebrates its 60th Anniversary.
For this date, we had last Sunday a special issue with the must memorable covers from the last 60 years. While I was designing the cover for this extra section, I recorded the process of doing it. This “making of” shows the main idea of the cover: an overview on different facts that happened in the last 60 years and were on the pages of the newspaper.
10 hours of work, that are now summarized in the 2 minutes video bellow:
Also for the anniversary, I designed a commemorative Logo, used in the newspaper and applied in all campaigns.
As a concept for the Logo, my idea was to show what we must wish from this world: happiness.
9 Awards at the ENC16
This week I joined the European Newspaper Congress in Vienna. Interesting talks and discussions. From all, I kept one quote in my mind (don’t remember who really said it):
“focus on what you are good at”For me this is the message for all publishing houses when thinking about reinvent theirselves.
In the end of the congress there was the Award Ceremony. Happy to be awarded with 9 Awards.
(On the photo Norbert Küpper, from my team: Marco Bratch (Sport Managing Editor) and Madeleine Jarling (Layout Chief), and Annette Milz).
California love?
Last week I was in San Francisco, for the annual workshop of the Society for News Design.
Nice talks. Many developers. Interesting projects. But, during the conference, I asked myself many times: are we loosing the way that journalism should follow?
As a visual journalist, I always say that the new digital era should serve journalism and not the other way around.
I am afraid of data visualisations that don’t answer me anymore the basic questions that I have. I am afraid of websites with amazing tools, but that disturb me to understand a simple journalistic information. Afraid of mobile apps that make strange sounds and are cold, almost freezing, and don’t bring me anything. This is definitely not the future of journalism.Once I learned that an infographic or any newspaper page works, when it answers our basic questions. All the rest is something else, but not journalism.
The best of News Design in the World
Once again we can take a look at what the judges of the Society of News Design competition have considered to be the best designed newspapers in the world.
This time was very special for me; we had 15 pages awarded with 2 Awards of Excellence, but all of them breaking news, done on the limit of the deadline, when you have less than 8 hours to understand, investigate and tell the story in the best way possible. Here visual journalism has an important role, working with the basics of its essence.The facts were strong by themselves. These were news we would like to never have printed.
As a visual journalist, the challenge was to give the correct impactful visual treatment for both stories. The audience gets visual clues about the importance and consequence of a story via visuals, not to mention the generation of the right emotional reaction that the story should bring, through the right use of visual storytelling.
As I always say, its harder to get such an award with a popular newspaper, that has a completely different language from what the ‘Society for News Design’ expect. But for me, the challenge is also to proof that is possible to bring quality in “visual storytelling” in a popular publication.
In the last 4 years we got 14 awards and a Silver Medal in the SND with Bild am Sonntag - something that has never happened before in the newspaper.
Bellow are the pages that got Awards of Excellence. A big thanks for all the team involved!
Category Breaking News, National
Category Breaking News, Terrorism
A new newspaper in the UK
The UK’s first new national newspaper for 30 years launches next week (29 February).
After the well designed Independent announces that will end its printed edition and go online only, this is an exciting news.
Editor Alison Phillips said “readers only have 30 minutes” and the paper would provide “what they need to know”.
I like what she says. This doesn’t mean ignoring online (as the new publication won’t have any online version), but making a newspaper which reflects and understands that.
I wish long life to ‘NewDay’! I will be watching with great expectation.
Read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/02/22/the-new-day-newspaper_n_9288248.html
Millennials won’t pay so easy for news
I just ready a survey by the World Economic Forum (done with 5,000 digital media users in the US, Germany, South Africa, Brazil and China): Millennials will pay for top notch digital entertainment, like Netflix and Spotify, but won’t do it so easy for things like news. (millennials are defined as people aged between 15 and 34)
“News publishers will be disappointed: Just under a quarter of plugged-in millennials say they would open their wallets to get over a paywall to read the news. Even more worryingly, journalists were deemed the group with the least influence over respondents’ digital media habits. Respondents considered brands and search-engines bigger factors on their media consumptions”But at the same time the study brings out:
“Good news for makers of all sorts of digital content: Millennials are willing to pay for it—but only the good stuff.”This shows me only one thing: there is only space for content produced with quality, in all ways: content and visual storytelling.. I believe that even the most economical millennial will pay something he feels essential.
Read here the study article: http://goo.gl/N1Zv7P
EXTRA! Bringing visual storytelling to those popular pages
It is a thoughtful, reflective process that helps me understand the amazing transformations of our industry over decades, not to mention my own. It’s amazing for me to be back in a newsroom in Brazil, where I was born.
I was invited to give a talk at Extra newspaper, from Rio de Janeiro, one of the main popular newspapers in Brazil. It’s amazing the powerful transformation that this talented team of news designers like Sandro Mesquita, Ivan Luiz, Felipe Nadaes, Toni Azevedo and other talented visual journalists are doing in this publication.
Everybody knows how I love those newspapers, and even more the combination of visual journalism with their popular language.
It was great to spent time with the team from Extra, sharing my thoughts about infographics and the power of visual storytelling on information, that simultaneously informs, inspires, entertains and encourages critical thought.