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Best Fronts Forward*

11:57 AM, January 31, 2007

I’ve been negligent in linking to this, but be sure to check out Alan Jacobson’s excellent new(ish) Best Front Design feature. He looks at a selection of the day’s pages and analyzes why he thinks they work (or not!). And now that he’s got commenting enabled, it’s even excellent-er.

(This link has nothing to do with the fact that he picked my newspaper’s front page today. Really. I had nothing to do with the page anyway. Really!)

Update: Jacobson and Quark are going to award $1,000 in cash and more than $1,000 in Quark software to the designer of the best front page every month. January's winner is Robert Suhay of Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot.

>Best Front Design (Brass Tacks Design)

Comments

Heads up: After you hit "post" things may be slow and you may get an error. Most likely, your comment did post. Apologies. I'm looking for a fix.

Hey, BFD comes with a monthly, monetary award as well! $2,000!!! Check it out!

Posted by: Nick Masuda at February 2, 2007 9:23 AM

And knowing Alan, I'm certain the other common use of the abbreviation "BFD" was not lost on him when he developed this idea.

Now with bucks from Quark, it is truly a BFD in both uses of the term. Hmm, too bad I don't design newspaper pages anymore -- not that my wax-paste-up-era skillz would have much chance against today's state of the art.

Posted by: Jay Small at February 2, 2007 11:53 AM

Gah! One of mine was posted in December. Any chance of them perhaps having a December vote? :-)

Posted by: Josh Jackson at February 3, 2007 7:03 AM

Hey Josh,

Pages published in December were ineligible for the monthly Quark award, but the Chicago Trib's 12/30/06 Hussein page was so strong, we had to give it a special recognition.

There will be 11 more Quark awards in 2007. Keep trying!

Posted by: Alan Jacobson at February 3, 2007 9:47 AM

Hey, BFD now has its own domain at bestfrontdesign.com. Sweet.

Posted by: Nick Masuda at February 5, 2007 9:31 AM

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