The seven senses of the world’s best-designed newspapers
The Society of News Design has announced the World’s Best Designed Newspapers, an award I conceived as chair of SND’s design competition back in 1995. Once again no American newspapers. Papers in Europe, Mexico and former Eastern bloc countries have dominated the World’s Best competition, reflecting the emergence of free expression and the flourishing of creativity in countries where the press and culture had formerly been restrained by government. By comparison, U.S. papers are stuck in time, less meaningful and relevent in American society.
The year’s winners — Russia’s Akrzia, London’s Guardian, Portugal’s Expresso, and Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine — are accomplished practitioners of the Seven Senses of the Right Brain Rules: design, storytelling, synthesis, empathy, play, business, and meaning.
