THE GUARDIAN AND RZECZPOSPOLITA, SND BEST DESIGNED NEWSPAPERS OF THE YEAR

This annual award is very controversial.

I have been once a member of the jury and you can only vote the newspapers that have enter the competition.

This makes the award very biased.

If the SND gives every year more design awards than needed and deserved (the income of the SND depends mainly on the revenue generated by the entry fees), this year at least there were two good news:

First, no Gold awards were given (bad por the industry, good for the competition).

Second, only two newspapers were selected as the best designed newspapers of the world, and no one of them was an American paper, a trend that started when I was member of that jury.

But, again, the judging system has big problems.

In this competition, while a jury selected Rzeczpospolita as one of the best designed newspapers of the year, another jury in the same competition gave only an award of excellence (no Silver, no Gold) to the same paper!

Well, let me add a final comment: in the past, INNOVATION was asked to relaunch two newspapers that had serious circulation problems, and before we start our work we and the clients got the shocking news that both newspapers were awarded as some of the best designed newspapers of the world...

Enjoy this slide show with pages of the two last winners.