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NEW TABLOID IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
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 XPRESS official website Xpress, a twice weekly tabloid newspaper, is set to be rolled out in Dubai on March 15, according to Arabianbusiness.com. Al Nisr Publishing is launching the title which is expected to compete with the free daily 7Days and have a print run of 80,000-100,000. Nirmala Janssen, a former Gulf News correspondent, will be the Editor and it is hoped Xpress will eventually gain a licence to become a daily publication. Source: AMEINFO GULF NEWS TABLOID XPRESS IS OUT TODAY By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter Dubai: A new tabloid newspaper from Al Nisr Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Al Nisr Publishing, hits the streets today. XPRESS will come out once a week and will be distributed free throughout the UAE, Al Nisr Media announced in a statement. The 72-page newspaper will cover local, international and sports news as well as entertainment and leisure. Al Nisr Media promised XPRESS would be a "community paper" that would raise issues of concern to readers. More NEWSPAPER INNOVATION FREE COMPETITION IN THE EMIRATES Xpress, a twice-a-week free publication is planned to launch in Dubai on March 15. Expected circulation will be 80 to 100,000. Owner Al Nisr Publishing will try to get a licence for daily publication as well. In Dubai Xpress will compete wil 7Days, the free daily that launched in 2004 and was acquired by Associated Newspapers in 2006. Publishing a free daily (or any daily) in the Emirates, however, is not without risk. In fact, 7Days twice escaped from being shut down in the last months. It run a feature about women’s assertiveness training in Russia, titled “Bitch school” - a insult to local culture. Later, UAE President Khalifa was said to be mis-quoted in an interview. Other (competing) papers called for a boycott while the paper also run into problems with advertisers and distribution because of the articles. More DUBAI MEDIA OBSERVER After two years of plotting in a secret basement, Gulf News has finally launched XPress. More |
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TAREK ATRISSI |
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| Born in Beirut, Tarek
Atrissi has worked and studied in Lebanon, the Netherlands and the United
States. He holds a BA in Graphic Design with distinction from the American
University of Beirut; a Masters of Arts in Interactive Multimedia from the
Utrecht School of the Arts in Holland and an MFA in Design from the School
of Visual Arts in New York- where he studied under people like Steven Heller,
Paula Scher and Stefan Sagmeister. His work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim
Museum in New York and is in the permanent Design collection of the Bibliothèque
Nationale de France in Paris, in the Affiche Museum in Holland and in the
Design collection of the University of Amsterdam. His projects were featured in major international design magazines and books in Korea, Germany, France, Russia, Australia, China, Japan, Holland, the United States, England, Canada and the Arab world. His awards include the Type Directors Club's award for typographic excellence, two Adobe Design Achievement awards in 2002, the New York Aquent Design award in 2003 as well as four IBDAA99 awards, an open Design competition for design professionals in the Arab world. He was twice nominated for Print Magazine's Twenty under Thirty, the international review for the most achieved Visual artists below the age of 30. He is the founder of www.arabictypography.com, the online communication platform for Arabic Type, and is a frequent guest speaker in several universities and design seminars across the world. more |
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SND Five Awards of Excellence and one Silver for Gulf News |
 Gulf News front page- Silver Award |
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Awards of Excellence and one Silver Award: that is the result for Gulf News
in the 28th Best of Newspaper Design competition held by the Society of
News Design (SND) in 2006. With a total of 13,862 entries, it is the most
important competition of its type for newspapers around the world. Gulf News was the only winner from all the Middle East, and won more Awards than the English newspapers Daily Telegraph (3), Sunday Times (1), Sunday Telegraph (1), Observer (1), and more than the American Wall Street Journal (3), the Singapore Straits Times (1) and the Spanish newspaper El Pais (2). Gulf News was also the first Middle East newspaper to win an Award of Excellence from SND, the previous year. All these awards make Gulf News the most rewarded newspaper for design in the Middle East. Gulf News is reaping the reward from investing in its design department. In the Middle East it is one of the newspapers which pays more attention to the graphic quality of its product, not only the broadsheet but also magazines and other publications. The team includes the best professionals from the region and other countries. The great attention to the quality of Gulf News design owes to the recognition of the company's managers. They are well-attuned to think about design in all projects, and that priority is reflected in the company's offerings. It is great news for our region to have broken into this prestigious, international list of winners. This type of competition is the way to publicize the work of designers and show the world that we can be just as creative in producing our pages. Such recognition is good for the individual professional and for the publication, and builds incentive to continuously improve our work. Gulf News became the leading English-language newspaper in UAE in a short space of time. "Gulf News is the highest-circulated English-language paper, as confirmed by its first BPA audit … Among non-Arabs, Gulf News is most widely read, with over 50%," says Media Guide 2007. After the newspaper's redesign in 2003 others newspapers have followed its precedent, most recently choosing the colour orange as a "success factor". ORANGE FACTOR IN UAE NEWSPAPERS  Gulf News is living proof that investment in design is a good way to renew, inspire and grow. Of course "design" itself is only a tool to help towards achieving success for the newspaper in all its efforts. Other key factors like quality of reporting, innovation, insight and accessibility to the general reader all contribute to the overall product. more
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THE 28TH EDITION: WORLD'S BEST-DESIGNED |
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