Student designers of the year announced
Congratulations to this year’s student designers of the year, as selected at the SSND judging this week at Columbia, Missouri.
Designer of the year in the daily category is Kate LaRue, a grad student at the University of Missouri. A few samples of her work:
In the non-daily category, the winner is Rob Byrd of Tempo magazine at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. A few samples of his work:
This year’s judges were Reagan Branham of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Greg Branson, art and design director of The Kansas City Star, and Gayle Grin, art director of the National Post in Toronto and president of the Society for News Design.
The folks in Missouri live blogged the judging this week. Read all about it here.
Mizzou’s Joy Mayer tells me they hope to post winning entries at Flickr. Find the feed here.
Online entries are being judged elsewhere. Winners will be announced April 21, I’m told.
Congratulations to the winners!
April 16th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
This year was almost exclusively magazines from art schools. The judges said broadsheets were too boring. Makes me wonder one of two things. 1) The future of design is magazines/tabloids because of the easy-access and ease of use as well as the ability to design smaller packages with art that doesn’t need to be high res (hard to find movie art anymore that can fill more than two columns for example). Or the more cynnical view of 2) SND doesn’t remember why we design and chooses artistic pieces that waste space and don’t tell a story instead of choosing functional design that helps readers understand and get to a story. They want posters and tons of white space.
What do you guys think, are magazine the future of design or just art that belongs on a wall?
April 16th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I was at the judging all day. Tabloids did well because the judges said those tabloid pages that won were better conceptualized, packaged and executed and used hierarchy better than a lot of the broadsheets. Content still drives design, not page dimensions.
Reproduction in print was what made the difference between first and second place for the daily student designer of the year category: both designers had good conceptions, but the second-place winner’s designs just did not produce as well in newsprint. The discussion for that category was long. The message: respect your presses.
And don’t try to predict the future of design off student entries judged by three people in one day. No offense to you, Michael, or any of the judges. And I’m not trying to start a college vs. real-world design debate, either.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:56 am
http://ssnd.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/what-we-learned/