2013-2014 Students Mireia Badosa, Olivia Boix, Albert Coy, Alfons de Alarcón, Lucía del Toro, Dídac Esteve, Marc Freixas, Marc Gómez, Judit Maldonado, Dani Moliner, Ángel Montoy, Karina Sayas, Berta Tubau, Norma Alicia Vázquez and Ester Vilaplana, of the subject [Infografia](http://www.eina.cat/ca/grau-de-disseny/assignatures/infografia http://www.eina.cat/ca/grau-de-disseny/assignatures/infografia )) fourth year of EINA’s Bachelor Degree in Design, taught by [Jordi Català](http://www.eina.cat/ca/eina/professorat/jordi-catala http://www.eina.cat/ca/eina/professorat/jordi-catala ) have won a European Newspaper Award, awarded by the Office for Newspaper Design, for the informative and visual qualities of an infographic project on John F. Kennedy. The European Newspaper Award, which recognizes the best work release in the continent under 21 different categories was awarded to the collective group of students, in the category of visual journalism students / information design.
The solemn annual edition Awards ceremony will take place during the international journalism design congress to be held in the city of Vienna, from May 4th to 6th, 2015. The prize is awarded to the collective work but at the same time, 8 individual projects carried out in teams of two students, and EINA University as responsible, will be specifically recognized during the official Awards presentation.
This award recognizes a sum of theme projects that had as leitmotif the 50th anniversary of the famous assassination in Dallas: the unresolved murder of US President, JFK. In these studies the students developed a personal process of data collection and research, management, hierarchy, qualifications and summary writing, along with the preparation of a book of style and display, introducing their own codes and that included maps, chromatism, signage and pictography, all originated from real images, illustration and especially typographic conceptions. The resulting winning pieces fulfill the objective of translating into images and synthetic texts, a large volume of information that students have 'cooked and seasoned' appropriately, to visually digest informative content to a series of audiences holding different skills, interests and areas of communication: conventional newspapers, online media, books, catalogs, magazines and posters.
The European Newspaper Award is the most important competition of the European continent that rewards the commitment towards visual design in media over a year period. The works recognized account for the best global or partial designs of newspapers and media, both conventional and online, new media bearers and applications for new technologies and especially the contribution in terms of innovation, creativity, uniqueness and imagination, including the commitment and capabilities portray to embrace industry’s changes and transformations.
The European Newspaper Awards hold four categories according to media audiences and the distribution scope of publications: national, regional, local and weekly. Each year, the highest recognition is granted to the media design in Europe featuring the best visual results, overall. Other awards are in relation to the covers, the covers section, the global designs, special supplements, photography (series, fragments, sequences, atmospheres, perspectives, reports, etc.) the adaptation of design to advertising, visual and alternative storytellings, computer graphics, illustration, supplements and special pages, magazines, typography and typographic innovations, innovation and new formal concepts in information design and online media, journalism or display data (Data journalism), Apps for ipad, Iphone, Android and tablets and innovative University projects.
It is the first time that the European Newspaper Awards grant such a recognition to students of a University in Catalonia or Spain.
