


Der Tagesspiegel is a 150,000-circulation daily in Berlin. The SND judges said:
An elegant, sophisticated, yet newsy German paper that presents its content using a strong but subtle hierarchy. Der Tagesspiegel’s editors and designers show the best practices in building visual narratives through excellence in the use of typography, images, color and graphics. As a result, designers offer a pleasant, page-by-page news-enriching experience that rescues the value of broadsheet newspapers.
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Judges say this elegance is presented ``using a strong but SUBTLE hierarchy.''
Perhaps it is better said that this newspaper's elegance is presented with NO heirarchy: most hedline sizes seem to be within 3pts of each other...i don't see any reader connectivity to this lack of navigation.
Posted by: larry jones at March 7, 2005 1:47 PMCouldn't agree with you more, Larry. Nothing dynamic at all about this layout. Looks "retro-70s weekly" to me. Can newspapers afford to be this understated (and, frankly, boring) with magazines and the internet vying for attention? Maybe it works in Europe . . .
Posted by: Darren Francey at January 25, 2006 8:07 PM