Where is The Guardian and the Polish Rzeczpospolita? They're paragons of design.

Can we know the names of the designers associated with these newspapers? Any designed by Mario Garcia?

I believe*...

Politiken was Palmer Watson.
El Economista was InnoVation.*

Not sure about the other two offhand.

ARIPAEV was designed by Jacek Utko.
Regards

Am I the only one surprised that the Virginian-Pilot is not on that top 10 list?

I may be a bit green in asking this, but is that top ten list based on page one, or the newspaper's complete package? I ask because I notice a big drop-off in page design outside of page one and the section fronts in a lot of papers.

Also, I share HRF's opinion - where's the Pilot?

I'm sorry, but seriously, The New York Times. Does page one count for nothing. Yes, the paper has a good look inside and on section fronts, but the front was designed in 1900 and hasn't changed since. The best looking thing on the front of the NYT is the nameplate that says The New York Times. If it wasn't for that, this newspaper couldn't compete with anyone in the newsstand.

Aren't award ssupposed to be based on innovation? Don't get me wrong. The Times does a lot of good things — great things. But A few of the papers down the list do these things better.

And yes, where is our champion of all things forward-thinking and innvoative, our guide for "how it ought to be done?" Where is The Pilot?

Billy K, re: Top ten. Neither. The top ten is simply based on the total number of awards a particular paper gets. Here's how it works: Say a paper won five awards. They may be spread over many categories — a feature front, an illustration, a news page, a graphic and a multi-page news project. Or all five could be from one or two categories: All photographs. Or all graphics.

Also, some papers have the budget to enter the same page in multiple categories (perfectly within the rules, and in full disclosure, it's something that we here at the PD have done). That way a page with a kick-butt illustration gets awarded for both for the illo and also for the way the designer handled it.

It would be an impossible statistic to total, but it would be darned interesting to see what a paper's winning percentage is ... five winners out of 10 entries versus five winners out of 100, or .500 versus .050, would be very telling indeed.

I don't have any insight into The Pilot, but it could be as simple as not entering enough pages to build up a big enough total number of awards. Certainly their work is spectacular in so many aspects. My guess is that they have a high winning percentage.

The world's best designed is judged based on the whole newspaper and is supposed to include things like the quality of headlines, writing, etc.

The top ten list is for the total of individual awards from each paper, most of which have nothing to do with the front page. The NY Times wins tons of awards for their magazine and graphics. Plus, the biggest papers tend to enter the most pages, which increases their odds.

Maybe the Pilot was Number 11?

I just sent a note to the competition's organizers (I am not one: We were just there to cover it) to ask if it possible to list the next 10 by numbers of awards. I am pretty sure you would see the Pilot in there. We saw it winning lots of awards, especially for their very innovative front pages, when we were reporting on the event. Hope to get an answer on Wednesday (many folks who are traveling today).

David: Hey thanks for the insight, I appreciate it.

Can we know?
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung was designed by our little company, www.Kircher-Burkhardt.com. Yippieee! Acting Art Director at the FAZ is the fantastic Peter Breuel. -Lukas Kircher

Rob's right. El Economista was Javier Errea and Innovation. It's a new newspaper, launched last February. I had a short post about it then.

I'm surprised the Salt Lake City Tribune isn't among them. I know, I know. The top ten list is for the total of individual awards from each paper. But, the Trib is always looking good. They did a fantastic job with the mall shooting the other day.

Los Angeles Times, is a joke...this a serious competition?, New York Times look like Flinstones newspapers, and L.A. Times look like fonts salad, is incredible what the people think! is not the power is design competition, or not?

Hey guys,

Hate to promote myself, but I was the art director of El Economista during its first year and redesigned a prototype that Javier Errea gave us.

What is on the street is loosely based on Javier's prototype but the end result looks nothing like what he delivered.

I recently left El Economista so it's in my interest that people know I was responsible for that project.

Thanks for understanding.

Oh, and I am Miguel Buckenmeyer...

Congratulations, Miguel!

The work in El Economista is terrific. The paper has a real sense of voice, something unique in a sea of financial newspapers. It's really one of the coolest pubs of its kind I have seen.

Kudos again on the award and best of luck on your future projects, wherever they may be!

Matt, thanks for the comments and your email to me earlier this week. I wanted to reply but was not able to.

I almost didn't enter El Economista in the WBD category and had intended to enter only a few pages as a consultant. I guess it is a good thing that I changed gears.

I was very impressed with the other WBD papers and absolutely love Jacek Utko's Aripaev, not to mention Palmer's redesign of Politiken. Excelsior also blew me away.

And, of course, I have always been a great fan of the San Jose Mercury News. You guys do amazing work.

I am so happy you changed gears and entered it in WBD: El Economista – and taking the prototypes to market, making a living, breathing, vibrant paper – deserves all the attention it's getting, trust me. You should be proud.

Excelsior continues to impress me. The guys there sent me an array of work on Friday. And it all holds up to a ridiculous standard. Just wild energy, top to bottom.

And thanks for the kinds words about the Mercury News. The last year, with the sale of Knight Ridder and the subsequent sale of the Merc, was a challenge, to say the least. We are humbled to have received so many honors for our work during such a difficult time.

Stay in touch and let us know what you're up to!

Matt,

You can find an article about how the design of El Economista was made, written by Miguel Buckenmeyer, where he explains the real process of his creation.

It is not the official story told in many weblogs but Miguel´s story, written yesterday. Please see www.visualmente.blogspot.com

http://visualmente.blogspot.com/2007/03/exclusivo-cmo-se-hizo-el-economista.html

http://visualmente.blogspot.com/2007/03/un-nuevo-modelo-para-la-informacin.html

What a great resource, Norberto ... Thanks for sending the links, and for getting Miguel to write his story!

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