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Date Saturday, September 22nd 2001
Venue Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark / Track A

Trends in European newspaper typography and design-the printed newspaper as navigation tool for the readers

Norbert Kübber (Copenhagen 2001) Norbert Kupper

Type and periodicals and WWW

The printed newspaper has the chance to be the main navigation tool for the users. The user has no overview about the 1V pro­gramme, he has no overview about senseful and senseless internet homepages, he has no overview over the cinema programme, he does not know what to do at the week­end. He has no overview about politics in his city, his region, his country, Europe and the world. The newspaper has the chance to be the lead and navigation media if it is clearly designed.
I will give an overview over the different trends in Europe’s newspaper landscape. Headline typefaces, mix of headline and body copy typefaces. I am organising the European Newspaper Award, a newspaper design competition. In the second compe­tition, 221 newspapers from 21 countries participated. That gives a good overview.

Norbert Kübber (Copenhagen 2001)
Speaker

Norbert Kupper

Norbert Kupper was first trained as a type­setter before he studied design.
Since 1981 he has a lectureship in typogra­phy and newspaper design at the University of Applied Sciences at Dusseldorf. In 1984 he founded the office for newspaper design. In 1989 he made researches o newspaper reading behaviour. His predominant place of work is Europe and he has worked out new designs for newspapers in Germany, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Belgium. In 1992, 1995 and 2001 he advised the newspaper Gulf News which is published in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
So far, he has given more than 50 news­papers a brand-new look.