Designer of the Year

This award is for the design of pages, covers, sections or whole publications. Entries may have been published in our newspapers, magazines, inserted magazines, supplements or websites.

Criteria

Emphasis will be on the creativity, originality, innovation, flair and artistic technique that went into a distinctive look. Judges will consider up to five individual examples.

What to submit

Your entry should include:

• Five examples of your work. If a magazine is an example, select a cover, key pages such as lead section pages or major spreads. Up to 12 pages will be sufficient. There is no need to send us the entire magazine.
• Your brief resume or career outline. This doesn’t need to be a full CV. Please include your contact details.
• A background statement describing each piece of work you submit.

Background statement

The background statement for this award does not need to be as comprehensive as it does for other categories. However, please describe as fully as possible:

• The assignment and its background
• What you were trying to achieve with it
• Any technical or practical difficulties you encountered
• Anything else that may be relevant to the judges.

Designers are not judged on the writing skills in their supporting statements.

Dates for eligible work

All submitted work must have been published in the 12 months from August 1, 2009, to July 31, 2010.  

Who can enter

The award is open to all editorial staff working on all News Limited national, metropolitan, regional and community publications, websites and magazines in Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

Permanent part-time staff are eligible, as are contractors. Casual employees, freelancers and contributors are not eligible. It is open either to individuals, or to teams that are jointly responsible for the entry.

You many nominate yourself or a colleague. If you are nominating someone else, you need to lodge the entry yourself and give your contact details.

How many times can you enter?

Individuals may enter the same category only once a year.

You may enter more than one category (ie Designer of the Year and Artist of the Year), provided that different material is submitted for each different award.

How to Enter

Please read the preliminary instructions provided on the website. There are links there for guidelines for library PDF or page archive retrieval.

Entry via the website is preferred.

If you cannot do this, a CD-ROM of your entry is acceptable. Please include on the CD a document giving your name, publication or website, category and contact details. Include a CV or resume, as well as the examples of your work. Send this to: News Awards, c/o Corporate Affairs, Level 5, News Limited, 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010.

You may send your entry in the internal mail, where this service is provided – but email Sarah Cullens cullenss@newsltd.com.au so we know a CD entry has been lodged.

Entries from PNG, Fiji, WA Community Newspapers and some areas of News Digital Media will need to be via CD because they have no access to the entry coupon from the website.

If you have any problems submitting your online entry, call Les Hoffman, on 02 6680 2080 or email hoffmanl@newsltd.com.au.

If you have any questions about the awards, call Lucinda Duckett on 02 9288 3125 or email duckettl@newsltd.com.au.

Closing date

Entries must be received by 5.00pm Tuesday, August 3. There will be no exceptions.