Newspaper design

A day of talks at St Bride Library

Friday 19 May 2006, 10.15am–5.15pm

Tickets cost just £50 (£35 for students) for a whole day of talks.

The programme is now available here

Update: read Jeremy Leslie’s review of the event, Nico McDonald’s lecture notes.

Speakers

Peter Baistow Peter has spent most of his working life in publishing. He was Associate Design Editor of the Sunday Times, Art Editor of Design magazine, New Society and the Architectural Review, and Consultant Designer to the Photographers’ Gallery. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the London College of Communications, and several universities.

Paul Barnes Paul worked at the studio of Roger Black inc. where he was involved in several major redesigns including Esquire and Newsweek. Now a freelance designer, he has worked as consultant to magazines such as Wallpaper* and Harpers Bazaar and designed typefaces including The Observer and Guardian Egyptian with Christian Schwartz.

Simon Esterson Simon is a newspaper and magazine designer. He has worked with The Guardian in London and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung group in Switzerland. He has been art director of Blueprint, Sight and Sound and the Italian design and architecture magazine Domus. He is a member of the AGI and is a Royal Designer for Industry.

Nico Macdonald Nico has been consulting with publishers since the late 1980s, around digital production and, since the mid-1990s, models for online publishing and design. He has advised publishers including Euromoney Publications, the Guardian newspaper, Haymarket Publishing, and IAC/InterActiveCorp. He also writes about design and technology.

John Belknap John Belknap is director of Belknap+Co, a design consultancy specialising in newspaper, magazine and website redesigns and launches. He apprenticed at the Village Voice and the New York Times, and has been art director of Blueprint, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, The Daily Express, The European and Sunday Business.

Mark Porter Mark joined The Guardian in 1995, initially as an associate, later becoming Head of Design and then Creative Director. He is now responsible for design and photography across all of The Guardian’s output. His work has been recognised by many organisations including British D&AD; and the Society of Publication Designers in New York.

Alan Rusbridger Alan has been Editor of The Guardian, London, since 1995. During his editorship he launched Guardian Unlimited, which is now the UK’s most successful newspaper website and, in 2005, changed the format of the Guardian and Observer from broadsheet to Berliner. He is a member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian.

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