WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

I asked INNOVATION’s Juan Cano about the best covers at the ASME contest and this was his choice:

I am really impressed by the “I am” cover of New York magazine.

Magazines are the best medium to decipher social changes.

This cover interprets how we feel now.

About important issues.

Both from inside and outside ourselves.

With brilliant graphics.

Magazine creativity at its best!

Juan Cano, a journalist for more than 40 years, worked for magazines during the last 30 years as editor in chief, founder or publisher of more than 20 titles.

He was editorial director for Grunner und Jahr, Bauer and Hachette Filipacchi, and President of ETMA (European Television Magazines Association)

A member of the Editorial Comittee of Hachette Filipacchi in Paris and special adviser on magazines to the President of Lagardre Active Média.

I asked several INNOVATION consultants which covers they liked the most from the ASME competition. Here are the first choices of Javier Errea, our chief design consultant. Javier’s work with El Economista led to it being named one of SND’s best designed newspapers in the world and his work with Expresso propelled it to the best designed European wekly newspaper of the year in 2006.

A world record!

Javier likes these cover winners from The New Yorker:

Both, he says, are delicate, alegorical and powerful, and at the same time, simple and very smart.

And he also likes the Time magazine cover with the Republican elephant rear.