Charles Apple

I hope all you folks designing all these cool World Cup pages will take note: Our pal Iam Sajeevkumar T.K., visual editor of Kaumudi in Kerala, India, and founder of the Newspaper Designing web site, has announced a new contest to honor the great work being done on the Cup.

The basics:

• There are three categories: Page one, sports page and infographics.
• There are two classifications: One for the entire world and one just for Indian newspapers.
• All entries must be sent by Wednesday, Aug. 11.
• Send entries to tksajeev [at] gmail.com

And please keep in mind that Aug. 11 will end for tksajeev before it ends here in the western hemisphere.

There’s not much more to know. But find the official solicitation for entries here.

Tksajeev, of course, is the guy behind the Newspaper Designing contest that held its inaugural competition earlier this year. Read about that contest here. Find the winning entries…

• Front page
• Infographics
• Features page
• Center spread
• Sports page

The Newspaper Designing site is aimed at Indian news designers, in hopes of broadening their horizons and helping them interface more often with the other news designers of the world. Tksajeev — as he likes to be called — encourages us all to join his site and enter the competitions.

Posted moments ago by the folks at the annual Student Society for News Design competition in Columbia, Missouri…

This year’s student designer of the year is Larry Buchanan, a junior at Indiana University.

UPDATE: Larry writes:

I interned at the Hartford Courant this summer after winning the internship in the SND Vegas Intern competition. I’m the art director of the Indiana Daily Student and Inside magazine. Journalism major with a second-concentration in Fine Arts.

Larry also is a lifeguard. He won a number of first-place awards in contests last year:

• Best front page, Indiana Collegiate Press Association
• Best sports page, Columbia Scholastic Press Association
• Infographic, Columbia Scholastic Press Association
• llustration, Columbia Scholastic Press Association
• Infographic, College Media Advisors

Here is the portfolio of pages Larry submitted for the contest:

Larry even included a couple of examples of web design:

The second place winner was Taryn Wood of the University of Missouri. Finishing in third place was Kyle Ellis of Ball State University.

Read about the other contest winners in the SSND contest blog.

Our pal Don Wittekind – a professor at the University of North Carolina — writes today:

Our kids at UNC built a summer web project called Powering a Nation. It has won tons of awards and is now up for the Webby People’s Choice award in the Student category.

And a very cool project it is, too. A couple of quick samples:

Find it here.

Don continues…

We’re trying to mobilize friends of UNC as this is one where you need people to vote to win. We’re in fourth place out of five at the moment, but positions 2-4 are very close.

So any chance you might mention us in the blog? I understand if this is too much shameless promotionalism, but it can’t hurt to ask!

Consider it mentioned, Don.

Again, to view the multimedia project itself, go here.

To vote, you’ll have to register. You can do both here.

Like Don says, the UNC project is — as of 4:30 p.m. Monday –ranked in fourth place:

Interestingly, another UNC project — one by the photojournalism department — is in distant fifth place.

Voting ends Thursday, April 29. But why wait? Help the kids out now.

After all, their basketball team tanked this year. This is the least we can do for ‘em…