Charles Apple

Tuesday, VizEds founder Robb Montgomery posted a video interview with the women behind two of the winners of this year’s World’s Best Designed competition.

This is compiled from footage he shot last fall at SND/Vegas, we believe.

Robb writes:

Svetlana Maximchenko is the 27-year old Editor-in-chief of Moscow’s Akzia. Akzia was named a World’s Best Designed last year [in addition to this year] and is the toast of Russia.

Jördis Guzmán Bulla is the art director for Germany national Sunday edition, Welt am Sonntag and is also a multiple winner of top design prizes.

Two years ago she won the gold medal for graphics, last year her paper was voted Europe’s Best Designed Newspaper and this year her team won a World’s Best Designed Newspaper award for work produced in 2008.

Here’s the video:

The women behind the World’s Best Designed Newspapers from Robb Montgomery on Vimeo.

In record time, too — it was only little over a week ago that judges flew back home from Syracuse.

The database was a little sluggish at first — Everything I searched for came up with no results. It’s all working fine now. Find it all here.

The annual Society for News Design contest extravaganza in Syracuse, N.Y. wrapped up Monday afternoon. All except for the World’s Best category, that is — judging of that begins Saturday.

In the shuttle, the quiet shuttle, Gaspard
sleeps tonight. Photo by Tyson Evans.
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Only four gold medals were awarded — two of which went to the National Post of Toronto. The New York Times Magazine and Expresso of Lisbon, Portugal, won one each.

Find the National Post’s golden illustration here. Find their local section/compact gold winner here.

Take a peek at Expresso’s gold-winning redesign here. Find the award-winning NYT Magazine photo essay here.

The top 10 prize winners (unofficially, SND says):

1. Los Angeles Times
2. National Post, Toronto
3. New York Times/magazine
4. St. Petersburg Times, Fla.
5. La Presse, Montreal
6. Plain Dealer, Cleveland
7. Boston Globe
8. Zaman, Istanbul
9. The National, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

The National is a brand-new paper that launched last year. Find Mark Friesen’s slide show of various pages from the paper here.

10. Three-way tie: Buffalo News, N.Y.; Chicago Tribune;  Clarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Read all about it at SND/Update.

Find a diary by judge Chris Ross, design editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune here. Find the Flickr photo feed here. Find a blog by Michigan State students who assisted the judging here.