Magazine Design & Journalism Awards

MAGAZINE DESIGN & JOURNALISM AWARDS

This year's Magazine Design & Journalism Awards have now finished. The winners of the 2008 awards have been announced.

The Magazine Design and Journalism Awards, now in their 10th year, honour the art and design teams, writers, reporters and production stars in the UK’s magazine industry. The only awards which focus only on design and journalism across all magazine sectors – consumer, B2B and Customer – these are the true test of outstanding creative talent.

Entries are judged by highly respected independent figures from the media in a rigorous two stage judging system. The first stage will result in a shortlist of six entries for each category being published on the Press Gazette website on Friday 10 October. The winners will then be decided in a second stage secret ballot and announced at the awards evening on 3 November at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square.

Entries are open to consumer, B2B and customer publishing and must have been published between August 1 2007 to September 5 2008.

Key Dates

Call for entries: Thursday 14 August
Entry deadline: Thursday 11 September
Shortlist announced: Friday 10 October
Winners announced: Ceremony and dinner, Monday 3 November, London

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HOW TO ENTER

Entries for the 2008 Magazine Design & Journalism Awards have now closed

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ROLL OF HONOUR

SHORTLIST

JUDGES

Judging

Entries will be read and considered by over 40 independent industry experts in a two stage judging process.

The first stage will result in a shortlist to be published on the Press Gazette website on Friday 10 October.

The winners will then be determined from the second judging round and announced at the awards ceremony 3 November at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square.

Just some of the experts who will be reviewing your entries:

• Alan Brydon, Head of Press Communication, MPG
• Allan Jenkins, Editor, Observer Magazine
• Bob Silver, Digital Design Director, Haymarket Network
• Brian Mckenna, Editor, Computer Weekly
• Cathy Darby, Course Leader, Masters in Journalism, University of Central Lancashire
• Claire Neilson, Art Editor, MacUser
• Claire Beale, Editor, Campaign
• Colin McHenry, Group Art Director, Centaur Media Plc
• David Flowerdew, Media Manager, Mediacom
• Diane Kenwood, Editor, Woman's Weekly
• Eric Musgrave, Freelance Editor & Writer
• Ewan Buck, Freelance Creative Director
• Fanny Blake, Freelance Writer and Journalist
• Freda Sack, Director, Foundry Types Ltd
• Steve Goodman, Group Press Director, Group M
• Greaves Gerard, Editor, Live, The Mail on Sunday
• Fernando Gutierrez, Director, Studio of Fernando Gutierrez
• Ian Burrell, Assistant Editor, The Independent
• James Goggin, Director, Practise
• Jan Brown, Editorial Design Consultant
• Jane Moore, Freelance
• Jeff Knowles, Creative Director, Research Studios
• Jeremy Leslie, Executive Creative Director, John Brown
• Jim McClelland, Editor, Sustain
• Jo Sandilands, Editorial Director, Seven Publishing
• Simon Kippin, Publishing Director, Glamour Magazine
• Mark Jones, Editorial Director, Cedar Communications
• Mark Wagstaff, Art Editor, Mojo
• Martin Cotterall, Freelance Art Director
• Martin Tullett, Group Art Director, Haymarket Network
• Matthew Line, Editorial Director, Craft London
• Michael Crozier, Editorial Director, Crozier Associates Ltd
• Mike Poole, Creative Director, Publicis Blueprint
• Nathan Gale, Art Director, Intercity Graphic Design & Art Direction
• Paul Harpin, Chairman of EDO, Editorial Design Organisation
• Pedro Silman, Creative Director, Tatler
• Peter Blegvad, Freelance cartoonist/illustrator
• Piers Allardyce, Photographer, OK Magazine
• Rob McGibbon, AccessInterviews.com
• Robin Morgan, Editor, Sunday Times Magazine
• Sarah Sands, Editor in Chief, Readers Digest
• Simon Esterson, Creative Director, Esterson Associates
• Sue Peart, Editor, You Magazine
• Tom Loxley, Executive Editor, Radio Times
• Daz Valladares, Managing Director, BBVS
• Victoria White, Editor, Company Magazine
• Johnny Aldred, Group Editor, Haymarket Network

WINNERS

Young Designer of the Year

Dominic Bell, Wallpaper

"While some entries feature young designers thrown in at the deep end, the Wallpaper* entry demonstrates that Dominic can play a part in developing the magazine while learning the details of editorial design as part of a strong team."

Best Designed Magazine of the Year - Consumer (Over 40k)

Meirion Pritchard, Wallpaper

"Wallpaper continues to innovate. A perfect response to its subject matter. Page after page of just stunning design. The most restrained, considered magazine in this category. A triumph."

Best Designed Magazine of the Year

Meirion Pritchard, Wallpaper

Best Designed Features Spread

Grant Bowden, Ritz

"An elegant and disarmingly simple design, but one that has clearly been very carefully thought through. The use of the Chanel logo is a conceit that never overpowers but drives the feature, framing, linking and underlining photographic elements as it goes."

Best Use of Typography

Grant Bowden, Ritz

"Ritz uses unusual typefaces to ensure that it looks like no other magazine. The fonts used show a lightness of touch which enable this magazine’s strong images to really shine."

Best New Design/Redesign

Marissa Bourke, Elle

"Elle’s 2008 redesign brought it bang up to date with a design which is clear, readable, colourful and above-all stylish. It successfully helped reposition the title firmly back in its heartland in the world of fashion."

Best Designed Front Cover

Marissa Bourke, Elle

"Strong and simple in colour and structure, I liked the tension between the formality of the serif logo and the lipstick scrawl over it. It wouldn’t sell on the newsstand, but subscribers as staunch supporters of the Elle brand would identify with Sienna with bedhead hair and enjoy its whole irreverence. Both Elle and Esquire have developed a two-track front cover process whereby they publish two covers, one for the newsstand and one for subscribers. This allows the creation of less busy, more conceptual covers and Elle have made the most of this with a series of covers of which this must be one of the best. Two-colour, clean, iconic, it harks back to a simpler time when magazine covers could be this clean."

Best Use of Illustration

Tan Parmar, Contact

"This just jumps off the page and begs to be read. The text becomes the illustration walking hand in glove with the content. It would not surprise me to hear the page had regularly been torn out and pinned up."

Best Use of Photography

Dan Delaney, Onelife

"The judges said this set of photographs hint at the nature of the editorial while compelling the reader to investigate the text in more detail."

Reviewer of the year

Andrew Billen, The London Magazine

"Billen’s output is inexhaustable and evergreen; he turns in precise, fresh and zesty copy with uncanny frequency."

Digital Journalist of the Year

Paul Grant, Accountancy Age

"A lively and visually stimulating site appropriate for its users and streets ahead of the other competitors. Grant’s work is accessible and well judged for his audience but perhaps he could be more experimental and provide pieces wholly right for a website rather than concentrate on an e-magazine."

Business Reporter of the Year

Stuart MacDonald, Building

"He may be writing for a specialist business magazine - but his features wouldn’t look out of place in a Sunday supplement. He’s found some great stories within his sector and he tells them in a lively and engaging way."

Exclusive of the year

Jonathan Green, Live

"A revelatory feature that would give the reader pause for thought. The Dirty Secret of Your NHS was particularly shocking, linking as it did our familiar world of the NHS with the pitiable state of Accra’s street children. It shows Green’s painstaking research and his dogged determination and belief that a story must be followed to its bitter end."

Feature Writer of the Year

Ariel Leve, The Sunday Times Magazine

"This writer displays an astonishing breadth, drawing the reader in to their chosen subject matter with the killer combination of in depth research and a consummate skill of painting an intense picture with their words. They have the luxury of space for their articles to breathe, but they don’t waste an inch of it. The story of Tyler and Renee was immensely memorable – it had the tremendous power of human truth about it. If I see Ariel Leve’s name on a piece, I know it will be challenging, unpredictable, and first rate."

Magazine Designer of the Year

Jonathan Gregory, Dirt Magazine

"Attractive use of fonts contributing to distinctive creative identity."

Editor of the Year

David Burton, Camouflage

"It would have been so easy for a magazine spearheading the Army’s Youth Information scheme to be dry and dull, but Camouflage is anything but. The design is truly innovative, and David Burton’s aim to ‘enthuse, educate, excite and inform’ readers is met 100 per cent. It is full of energy, great ideas, and impactful photography and is truly original. An impressively innovating title for such a niche brief."

Best-Designed B2B magazine

Dean Dorat, Contagious

"Contagious has beautiful attention to detail. It goes the extra mile and has a confidence beyond most in this sector."

Interviewer of the Year

Lesley White, The Sunday Times Magazine

"The three interviews, with Tony Blair, Ralph Lauren and David Bailey, show the range of White’s accomplishment: how, given her subject, she can adapt her interviewing technique to suit her target. The final pieces are also individual, ranging in tone and overall effect. The reader is exposed to a captivating and illuminating slice of the interviewee’s life while being aware of the strong voice of the interviewer. Honourable mention should go to Jeff Maysh: his encounter with Pete Docherty is something of a scoop and his interviews with Dustin Diamond and The Gladiators is pitched perfectly to his Loaded audience. Lesley White is an experienced interviewer who is always observant and fair. I read her knowing I will end with a deeper understanding of the subject. No tricks, just journalism."

Best-Designed Customer magazine

Dan Delaney, Onelife

"A customer magazine has to reflect the brand. Land Rover Onelife does much more than this. Enlightening content, beautiful attention to detail. Everything comes together to make the perfect customer magazine. One Life is a beautiful magazine, full of wonderful photography that the modern and minimal house style really allows to sing. Each issue has a theme and this self same minimal house style is twisted into intricately crafted new design shapes that ‘glue’ the issue together, allowing the magazine to have the best of both worlds."

Columnist of the Year

Michael Hodges, Time Out

"Michael Hodges’ writing is funny, insightful and poignant and writes about urban life with a candidness and intimacy which brings the reader immediately into his confidence."

Production Team of the Year

Esquire

"Esquire slickly achieves a balance between character and matter-of-fact cool, avoiding the OTT self congratulations and hype of many of its competitors. The magazine has an authoritative and consistent tone of voice that comes from the thoughtful and thought-provoking standfirsts, crossheads and captions. Headlines are playful and witty without descending into too many puns. The volume of work for the number of people on the subs desk is impressive."

Best Designed Magazine of the Year Consumer (Under 40k)

Paul Willoughby & Rob Longworth, Little White Lies

"Little White Lies displays a total love of its cinematic subject matter. Its leftfield design sensibility is a joy with playful and dramatically inventive graphic and type use to the fore. The magazine packs a stark noir punch and at times one is left jealously wondering exactly how some of the typographic effects were chieved… always a good thing!"

News Reporter of the Year

Sally Gainsbury, Health Service Journal

"In Sally Gainsbury, the HSJ have found themselves a gem. Her style is firm, factual and above all dedicated to the one thing that news reporting relies on most; on the record quotes. Her exclusive story that the NHS, far from being cash strapped, was actually sitting on a £1.8bn credit balance was ruthless in its attention to detail. Her revelation that the GP practice covering Buckingham Palace was one of the most over funded in the country would have made a lead anywhere, while her front page scoop that many consultants’ private patients were walking out of NHS hospitals without paying their bills was, rightly, picked up by all the nationals. She deserves to go far."

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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NIGHT

Winners

The Event

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BOOK YOUR TABLE

The Magazine Design and Journalism Awards 2008, the only awards which celebrate design and journalism across all magazine sectors, will be held this year at the exclusive London Marriott Grosvenor Square. Host for the evening will be Clare Balding, TV presenter & sports journalist.

For the price of your ticket, you will receive two glasses of sparkling champagne on arrival, followed by a three course meal served in a very different way! The ceremony remains a fun and informal event providing a great opportunity to mingle with your peers and celebrate your team’s hard work over the past year. A top DJ will round off the evening with dancing.

The price for a table of 10 is £850 and includes a three course meal, 5 bottles of wine on the table and entertainment.

You can also book individual places for £85.

Timings for the evening:

Date: 3rd November 2008

Time: 6.30 pm Drinks reception
7.30 pm Dinner & awards ceremony
1.00 am Carriages

Venue: Marriott, London Grosvenor Square
Grosvenor Square
London W1K 6JP

To book your table, please download our table booking forms and guest list. Send your completed forms to:

Alex Pont
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Wilmington Business Information
Paulton House
8 Shepherdess Walk
London
N1 7LB

Alternatively, contact Alex Pont on +44 (0)207 324 2396 or email apont@wilmington.co.uk.

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VENUE

Marriott, London Grosvenor Square
Grosvenor Square
London W1K 6JP

Tel: 44 20 74931232
Fax: 44 20 74913201

Website: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/londt-london-marriott-hotel-grosvenor-square/

Nearest Tube Station: BOND STREET, 300 metres
Nearest Train Station: PADDINGTON, 2 miles

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CONTACTS

Alex Pont (Entry Coordinator)
apont@wilmington.co.uk
0207 324 2396

Ros Maughan (Event Manager)
rmaughan@pressgazette.co.uk
020 8538 9797

For sponsorship information please contact:
Tom Bailey (Sponsorship Executive)
tbailey@wilmington.co.uk
020 7324 2378