Archive for May, 2007

POLITIKEN: Best of show in Scandinavia

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Denmark’s POLITIKEN, one of the “World’s Best-Designed” newspapers according to SND, has obtained the Best of Show recognition in SND’s professional affiliate, SND/S in this year competition.

Jury has told that the design of Politiken is “very modern; beautiful, well organized and very easy to navigate; a unique concept in Scandinavia; a newspaper for the future”… (mmm… where did I have heard that?)

There were no gold medals this year because according to the judges “there is a reduction in the quality of the presented pages”.

You can consult all the awarded newspapers with images in a pdf .

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The Reporter of the Century

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.
His best-known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, which left the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure, Tintin and Alph-art, unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.
The notable qualities of the Tintin stories include their vivid humanism, a realistic feel produced by meticulous and wide-ranging research, and Hergé’s ligne claire drawing style. Adult readers enjoy the many satirical references to the history and politics of the 20th century. The Blue Lotus, for example, was inspired by the Mukden incident that led to the Chinese-Japanese War of 1934. King Ottokar’s Sceptre can be read against the background of Hitler’s Anschluss, while later albums such as The Calculus Affair depict The Cold War. (From Wikipedia)

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Mexican newspaper group buys 70 Kodak Thermal CTP Systems

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Mexico City-based Organizacion Editorial Mexicana purchased 70 Kodak Trendsetter News platesetters, along with the Kodak Prinergy Evo workflow system and Kodak Thermalnews Gold digital plates.

OEM President and Chairman Mario Vázquez Raña, whose company prints 70 newspapers at 35 locations, and owns broadcast outlets and Internet sites, said conversion to digital prepress “with the Kodak platesetters, workflow and digital plates will increase our productivity, improve the quality of our printed products, and cut waste on press.”

In the highly competitive Mexican newspaper market, “OEM is investing in Trendsetter News CTP devices to fuel future growth,” Evandro Matteucci, Kodak managing director for northern Latin America, said in a statement. (Source E&P)

Tienes razón Adrián…

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