UK: Verband für Editorial Design gegründet

Unter der Leitung von Paul Harpin, Designdirektor von Haymarket, und Jeremy Leslie, dem Kreativdirektor von John Brown, haben führende briti­sche Editorial-Designer die Editorial Design Organisation gegründet. Ihr Ziel: den Leistungen, dem Können und der Bedeutung des redak­tio­nellen Designs in Magazinen, Zeitungen und Webseiten mehr Gehör zu verschaffen.

Gegenüber der Creative Review fasst Leslie, der auch das Weblog MagCultur betreibt, seine Beweggründe so zusammen: »It’s not often that I get excited about the launch of a committee-based profes­sional body. There are enough already, surely?

This one is diffe­rent, though. ED.O has been set up by a group of senior design figures in the publi­shing industry, with the support of their compa­nies, to promote the role of the maga­zine and news­paper desi­gner to the broader design world. Remarkably for an industry the size of ours, this is the first-ever such group set up in the UK.

Why is it needed? We felt that our design specia­lism is often over­looked, the irony being that maga­zines in their many guises are a vital reflec­tion and measu­re­ment of visual trends of any given time. And in an era where more and more desi­gners are finding them­selves dealing with deli­ve­ring content, the ability to present it intel­li­gently and enga­gingly in print and online has never been so important.«