Spanish Design Trends

[Kyle Ellis]

I was recently offered the opportunity to design the prototypes for a brand new weekly publication for the paper that I'm interning with.

The kicker is... it is going to be a Spanish publication. I've pulled some sample pages off NPD and Newseum, but am looking for more information.

Anyone out there familiar with these trends...or have suggestions?

[Sergio Fraire]

Can i help you? i like colaborate with your project

[Alejandro Banuet]

hi kyle,

i can resume it in:

-full color
-big pictures
-small stories
-short headlines
-strong use of color (specially red)
-powerful photo edition
-sans serif or egyptian

... this is in case that you are looking for “latin” design, not “spanish”. they are totally different approaches.

regards and good luck

--alejandro

[Chiqui Esteban]

Hello Kyle,
I can help yo if you're looking for something about spanish design, not latin (i'm not sure of what looking for because of the comments). Anyway, in Spain we've got a kind of heterogeneous market. You can see some examples of the new national newspaper Publico on http://www.publico.es/estaticos/pdf/, where you can download the PDF's of all its issues.
You can see also some pages of which is, on my opinion, the best designed free newspaper on Spain, ADN, on http://www.adn.es/impresa/diarioadn/
You can also have a lot of frontpages at http://www.hhmmss.com/kiosko/HOY/index.html. They are refreshed everyday.
If you need anything more, just contact me.

[Leomanuel Herrera]

Hi Kyle, well i think i'm agree with Alejandro, the use of powerfull color palettes, a very strong photo edition and short, very short stories are the key. In actual times it is more info entertainment than long pulitzer stories, a lot of fast reading with very potential infographics. There is a rule in the most of tabloids newspapers: without photo, there is no note. (But it is very discutible)

I hope it helps you or something, you can ave a better idea of a latin tabloid at: http://www.centrodc.com.mx/

Good luck!