Today at your newsagents

If you live in London, you might be able to grab a copy of the Süddeutsche Zeitung today and have a look at the new issue of the SZ-Magazin supplement. The new design becomes really obvious now, it´s very different and looks a lot younger than before. Also the content feels different after the redesign. The magazine features the iPhone paintings of UK artist David Hockney in original size.



It´s also the first issue that I was involved in during my editorial design internship in Munich. Some bits and bops that I made during my first few days include the photo montage at the cross-word page and the little illustrations decorating the story on page 20 and 22. I also spent a lot of time with the images of the Cold Water Canyan Park. It sounds little but it´s actually more than I expected I would be allowed to do in the first week. It´s great, they expect 100% from you from day 1. Nobody tells you what you have to do, you're just expected to come up with your own ideas and suggest solutions to sometimes such tricky questions like "how can we illustrate a competition where readers can win brainy audio books" and then you go and put some headphones on a philosopher´s head and they love it. The most amazing thing however is to see how such a publication gets put together by so many people. It´s surprising, it´s new, it´s different from anything you learn at uni. And it´s getting better every day.

And in case you're wondering: yes, the image at the top is a 3D boxshot. Just like the image of the book that I made for page 33.

Week 2 in Munich

Last Thursday the SZ-Magazin had a relaunch. It´s the first issue in a new, younger design and also the first one I was involved in as an intern. Although there´s not really anything that I did myself in this issue, it´s still interesting to be able to have a look behind the scenes of such a redesign. However, a little piece of work that I did was published not in the magazine but surprisingly enough in the actual newspaper. It´s a photo montage of Bob Dylan with a santa hat that I made the other day for our music blog. Would be nicer if they had given me some credit though. Anyway, I'm still enjoying being here, I got to grips with the workflow and can now start coming out of my shell and getting more creative.

Paz now with SZ

Some things have changed here. Instead of Quöllfrisch, there´s now Hofbräu, instead of grotesque there´s now blackletter, instead of ´ss' I now use 'ß' when I write in German. That´s all signs of my move from Switzerland to Bavaria. Not only do I write the sz ('eszet') ligature again, I can also eat the lovely 'Eszet Schnitten' on my breakfast roll and even more: I now work at the SZ, the 'Süddeutsche Zeitung' (literally South German newpaper), Germany´s largest daily broadsheet or rather at the Friday supplement, the SZ Magazin, a full colour lifestyle magazine with more than 800 000 readers every week that has won numerous awards of the Art Directors Club over the years.

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