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Photos from India newspaper design workshop

Hyderabad: Below is a slideshow of photos from the start of a two day newspaper design and redesign workshop in Hyderabad, India. These photos were taken by my host V Antony, Business development manager of IFRA India. Antony’s background is in prepress - so hat’s off to him for making some nice documentary images.


The sold out training event brought together editors and designers from Singapore, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and their interest in gaining knowledge is great.

The hands-on workshop included instruction and practice in improving the newspaper design by improving the journalism of the designers, how to manage visuals and package graphics, how to properly apply color and core design principles, as well as techniques to focus the front page and methods to improve design planning workflows.

A tall order to fill in any culture and a need in almost every newsroom. These goals and struggles this group shares are common to all of us who love working in newsrooms and designing newspapers for people who love to read.

I must say I am very proud of the creative energy of this group - I think that joy comes through in Antony’s images. Antony also filled a tape of video footage and as soon as my body compensates for this jet lag, I plan to edit his footage down into a reel to post here on the blog. Stay tuned. I think Visual Editors blogger, TK Sajeev will be posting his thoughts from the workshop on his blog soon.

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India (Design workshop)

November, 17-18, 2008

Hyderabad, India
IFRA Two day design and redesign workshop.

Registration and seminar details are available on the IFRA Web site.

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India (Design workshop)
Hyderabad, India
November 17 — 18, 2008

Eiffel Tower view thanks to IFRA and SND

The week working with journalists, publishers, editors and students has finished and it’s on to Paris for a lecture on Web video for IFRA and SND.

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I shot and shared a lot of film here in Cairo and a few new movies will follow as I steal time away to edit them into worthwhile films. The crowd attending the IFRA/SND gig at the Apple Executive Briefing centre will be the first to see the new stuff I have developed from my recent experiences with producing Camp VJ and other video and new media training events in Canada, Croatia, Pennsylvania, Italy and Germany.

The visual journalism event in France will have me placed along the Seine River facing the Eiffel Tower. Should be nice break to only have one event scheduled for three days and I will take the chance to dine with Parisian colleagues and catch up on things. At least I will not go hungry!

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