Meeting in Pamplona, Spain at the University of Navarra, the jury of Malofiej 17 awarded the top prize, the Peter Sullivan Award, to the New York Times and NYTimes.com for a piece titled “The Ebb and Flow of Movies,” which examined 20+ years of box office receipts and their trends.
Highlights from the Malofiej release:
• The Jury of the 17th International Infographics Awards, organized by SNDE, gave 18 gold medals, 55 silver medals and 96 bronze medals
• NYTimes.com won the Miguel Urabayen Award to the Best Map for the piece ‘Electoral Explorer’
• Gold medals went to The New York Times (5) and NYTimes.com (3), National Geographic Magazine (4), La Voz de Galicia, Die Zeit Magazine, Golden Section Graphics, La Nación (Costa Rica), EiTB.com and Marca.com
• 1.320 entries from 140 media from 30 countries participated in the contest, which is known as the ‘Pulitzer’ of its kind
• School of Communication of the University of Navarra has welcomed during
the week more than 120 professionals from worlwide
The New York Times and NYTimes.com shared the Peter Sullivan Award /
Best of Show during the 17th Malofiej International Infographics Awards,
organized by the Spanish Chapter of the Society of News Design (SNDE).
The international jury, which met in the School of Communication of the University of Navarra from March 22th to 25th, decided to award unanimously with the Best of Show the printed and online coverage titled ‘The Ebb and Flow Movies: Box Office’, which explains in detail the weekly box office receipt from all the movies opened in the United States during the last three decades.
Furthermore, the jury awarded 18 gold, 55 silver and 96 bronze medals both in printed media works as well as to on line ones. 1.320 entries from 140 media from 30 countries were presented, matching the participation record registered last year in the contest, wich is unanimously known as the most important in the world, and its awards, the ‘Pulitzer’ of the infographics.
The Miguel Urabayen Award to the Best Map went to NYTimes.com for their job ‘Electoral Explorer’, made for their coverage of the United States presidential elections in 2008. This Award was created four years ago in the honour of Miguel Urabayen, Visual Communication professor and movie critic, who was linked from the very beginning to journalist infographics and Malofiej Awards. In fact, Urabayen was the man who discovered in Argentina the cartographer Alejandro Malofiej and saw in him a pioneer of the genre who has definitely revolutionized the printed media during the last decade. In memoriam of deceased Malofiej, the School of Communication of the University of Navarra created the awards as well as the Infographics World Summit, which is held every year in the Social Sciences Building. During a week, Pamplona turns into the world capital of infographics, putting together the most important professionals from the worldwide.
120 medals given from the jury were to printed entries (13 gold, 40 silver and 67 bronze medals), and 49 were to online entries (5 gold, 15 silver and 29 bronze medals).
The most awarded media was The New York Times (USA), who won in both its editions (printed and on line) 8 gold medals (5 and 3 respectively). Also received gold medals jobs from National Geographic Magazine (4, all printed entries), La Voz de Galicia (Spain), Die Zeit Magazine (Germany), the agency Golden Section Graphics (Germany), La Nación (Costa Rica), EiTB.com (Spain) and Marca.com (Spain).
The jury, chaired by Michael Stoll, Professor in the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), included Antonio Alonso, Graphics Artist at El País (Spain), Luis Chumpitaz, Graphics Director at Arab Media Group (Dubai); Amanda Cox, Graphics Editor at The New York Times (USA); Juantxo Cruz, Graphics Director at El Mundo (Spain); Gabriel Dance, Senior Multimedia Producer at NYTimes.com (USA); Tom Kennedy, Managing Editor for Multimedia at Washingtonpost.com (USA); Guillermo Nagore, Creative Director at SYPartners (USA); Aron Pilhofer, Editor of Interactive News Technologies at The New York Times (USA); Brian Rea, illustrator and former Art Director for the OP-Ed page of The New York Times (USA); Fabio Sales, Art Director at O Estado de S.Paulo (Brasil); and Ramón Salaverría, MMLab Director and Professor at School of Communication, University of Navarra (Spain).
The Awards were given on Friday, 27th March, at the end of the 17th Infographics World Summit, which has put together more than 120 professionals from all around the world and that has served as well to present the Malofiej 16 book, wich includes the winners of the past edition together with a number of articles by Juan Antonio Giner, Michael Agar, Juan Velasco, José María Esteban and Alessandra Kalko, as well as an interview with Juan Velasco, by John Grimwade.
Malofiej next meeting, numer 18th, will be held in Pamplona in march 2010. The exact date is still to be confirmed.
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