World cup pages and graphics from South Africa’s Sunday papers
A nice care package arrived this afternoon (U.S. time) from South Africa. Specifically, from my good friend Arlene Prinsloo, design guru for the Afrikaans-language dailies die Burger, Beeld and Volksblaad, the Afrikaans-language Sunday national paper Rapport and the English-language Sunday national Paper City Press.
She thought I might enjoy these pages and, of course, she thought correctly. And since it’s after midnight there now, I’ll go ahead and post ‘em now.
I’ll show you the Afrikaans stuff from Rapport first and then we’ll check out the English stuff from City Press…
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SOCCER FOR DUMMIES?
This first one is on an inside section front of Sunday’s Rapport. I’ll bet you don’t even need me to translate for you:
The ABCs of soccer — for beginners
The graphic is by one of the wonderfully talented artists I worked with last year, Morné Schaap. Altus Momberg supplied the words.
If you click this one, you’ll get one large enough to read… if you could read Afrikaans:
This also represents a bit of a salvage job. Anton Vermeulen — the artist for Rapport and with whom I also worked extensively last year — tells me:
This was done by Morné, but Die Burger did not want to use it as it was too big for them.
I pitched the idea at Rapport and they loved it. Problem was I had to shave about 8-10 cm from the bottom, change the color palette and all the fonts. I swapped some of his illustrations around to fit better with some of the info-boxes too. I changed the field at the bottom a wee bit as well.
It took me about three hours to finish everything.
Here’s the original version by Morné:
Despite the reworking, Anton didn’t add his name to the credit line.
Still only his byline. I felt Morné deserved it.
Morné had a great idea and it just had to go into the papers. I’m glad it is going to do so.
Fabulous teamwork, guys. I wish I was there to buy you each a beer.
I also wish I had an English version of this one. I’m still struggling with the offsides rule. As well as whatever the hell penalty that official called to negate Team USA’s third goal on Friday.
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NOISE, NOISE, NOISE, NOISE
Also inside tomorrow’s Rapport will be this amusing story on the other noisemaking devices commonly used by sports fans:
The story looks like fun. But, of course, it’s that graphic that really catches my eye. It’s by the aforementioned Anton Vermeulen and reporter Celinda Groenewald. Again, here’s one that’s much more viewable if you click it:
Fun stuff. I love the simple monochromatic line drawings.
Arlene also sent along a couple of inside sports pages:
My hope was to run all this through Google Translator for you, but it’s not giving me squat for words like Askies and blaaps.
The nice vertical picture, though, is by Michael Steele of Getty Images.
And here’s another great one, featuring a phot by Robert Candia of the Associated Press:
Arlene’s not asked my advice. But if she did I’d tell her: One FIFA/World Cup logo per page is quite enough. You have it in the page hedder and it’s in the ad in the lower right. Repeating it six more times — in each of the group standings charts — is overkill, I think.
Still, the pages are quite nice. I love the large use of great photography.
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THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CITY PRESS
The cover of tomorrow’s City Press is a bit unusual. There’s no huge art. There’s hardly any art at all. The page is built around brief quotes of folks showing support for the South African national team, Bafana Bafana:
Arlene tells me:
Here is City Press‘ front page, with lots of help from Peter Ong.
I was in Cape Town, Peter was in Sydney, Australia. Design by remote!
Peter, of course, is the guy who redesigned City Press just a few weeks ago. He also redesigned the Afrikaans-language Rapport last year, while I was there.
Arlene also sent me City Press‘ sports front for tomorrow, adding fire under the Bafana Bafana coach:
An inside sports page contains a lead story on World Cup teams containing coach + son pairs. Click this for a readable version:
And this inside page looks back on the first week of this year’s World Cup — which lasts an entire month, by the way.
The page is basically a large alternative story form, recapping a huge moment from each day. Here is the section across the bottom again — click it for a readable view:
Thanks much to Arlene and Anton to sending me cool stuff. Keep it coming, guys.
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Are you doing anything interesting for the World Cup? Send me PDFs, please.
Previous World Cup coverage, here in the blog:
- Sunday, June 6: Preparing readers for the World’s Cup
- Monday, June 7: Monday’s World Cup pages
- Wednesday, June 8: World Cup pages from South Africa
- Thursday, June 9: Talking soccer graphics with Konstantinos Antonopoulos
- Thursday, June 9: Tooting horns for the World Cup
- Friday, June 10: Opening day pages
- Saturday, June 11: The front page of Saturday’s Johannesburg paper
- Saturday, June 11: The most fun I’ve seen yet on a World Cup page
- Sunday, June 12: U.S. Cup fronts after the tie with England weren’t so gracious
- Wednesday, June 16: More Cup pages from South Africa and around the world
- Friday, June 18: The Mercury of Durban, South Africa, and its stunning “twinning” project