Cool Daily Newspaper Designs

I recently attended the Society of News Design annual conference, held this year in Denver. SND is the newspaper equivalent of SPD, newspapers designers from around the United States and Canada, with a strong European and Latin American contingent. I gave a talk on how newspapers should adapt their design to look more like magazines, especially weekly magazines like Time, Businessweek, New York, and Entertainment Weekly. As part of my presentation, I solicited design samples from a number of art directors from around the country. I discovered some remarkable design happening in some out-of-the way places like Huntsville, Alabama, Victoria, Texas, and Norfolk, Virginia. We've already posted some samples from the Victoria Advocate and Portugal's i newspaper on the SPD site. Here are some other examples of outstanding, creative daily newspaper design.

(Left): The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio. Art director: Scott Minister. (Right): The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia. Designer: Sam Hundley.


(Left): The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia. Designer: Sam Hundley. This is a cover to a special section on the Oscars. Pictured are posters from all 81 Best Picture winners. (Right): The Huntsville Times, Huntsville, Alabama. Art director: Paul Wallen.

(Left): The Huntsville Times, Huntsville, Alabama. Art director: Paul Wallen. (Right): Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Art director: Paul Wallen.

(Left): i, Lisbon, Portugal. Art director: Nick Mrozowski. A front page highlighting the debut of the ipad. (Right) Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Art director: Chris Mihal.


Related stories:
Portugal's i Newspaper
The Victoria Advocate's M3 Entertainment Section