When the magazine entries come out the Drumlins ballroom takes on a more vibrant quality: the quality, the bold color use and repro quality can only leave newspaper designers feeling jealous. “A lot of what we’re doing is moving more toward a magazine style,” said judge Frank Mina, AME for Presentation at the San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s actually the time that I’m jealous of: the time to put packages together over an extended period of time, the time to get all the details right.”
This year for the first time, the category was opened up to magazines not distributed as part of a paper. Here’s a sampling of the table, featuring the colors of the rainbow:
