Three MetaDesign projects were honored at this year’s iF Communication Design Award. The new brand identities for the energy provider Entega and the solar services provider Younicos were recognized in the «Cross Media» category. In the «Typography» category, the international typeface compendium Our Typefaces, created for the Siemens Group, received the award.
This year, 1,368 entries from 24 countries were submitted for the iF communication design award, which is presented annually by the International Forum Design in Hanover. The ceremony for the golden iF Awards will take place on August 28, 2009, at BMW Welt in Munich.

The Board of Directors of the Wypag publishing house in Bülach has transferred the management of the publishing and editorial offices of the Schaffhauser Post and the Weinland Post to Oliver Schmid as of August 1, 2009. The 30-year-old studied at the MAZ in Lucerne and has held management positions at regional media companies for more than ten years. Born in Schaffhausen, he has knowledge of the local and regional press, the advertising market and the publishing and advertising business. The Schaffhausen team will continue to be complemented and supported by Swiss Post Editor-in-Chief Alois Schwager and Alex Birchler, Head of Publishing Support.
Wypag-Verlag publishes the monthly newspapers Schaffhauser Post, Weinland Post, Winterthurer Post and Frauenfelder Post. According to a press release issued on Monday, the new acquisition is a prerequisite for the further expansion of business activities. The publishing house produced its first monthly newspapers in June of this year and supplemented them with online editions.

Zurich FDP National Councillor and former TV editor-in-chief Filippo Leutenegger is planning a comeback at SRG. As the Sonntag newspaper writes in its latest edition, he is standing for election as "Super Director" - the CEO of the merged radio and television company. This is a challenging and highly interesting task, Leutenegger told the Sonntagspublikation. He is also said to have signaled his willingness to give up his seat on the National Council. The two offices are not compatible. Leutenegger wants to strengthen radio and television in terms of journalism and make them more efficient.
There is also news regarding the election of the interim head of Swiss Television: the new director will not be elected next Thursday as planned, but on July 9. Sunday also knows the reason for the postponement: the regional council, which originally only wanted to elect the new radio director on June 18, was surprised by Deltenre's resignation last week. In order to avoid having to schedule two election meetings and to avoid violating any regulatory deadlines, the SF and radio directors will now be appointed together in July.

Not everyone is happy that the current TV editor-in-chief Ueli Haldimann is to become the interim successor to television director Ingrid Deltenre. There were numerous bilateral meetings on the fringes of the session in Bern, and according to a report in the Sonntagszeitung, around 15 people are to meet in Rothrist on Tuesday. The initiator is none other than SVP National Councillor Ulrich Giezendanner. He is said to have confirmed the "coordination meeting", but does not yet want to say who is part of the group and who will play what role. So it's a real secret society. And be careful, he seems to be serious: "The fight against the SRG is on", he is quoted as saying in the Sonntagszeitung. He wants to gather other politicians and private broadcasters around him and trigger an avalanche against the SRG. At least Mr. Giezendanner seems to be aware that he and his resistance fighters will hardly be able to prevent Haldimann's election as interim director of SF. His modest goal: to bring more civic-minded people onto the SRG committees and prevent Haldimann's definitive election...

Ruf Lanz has been responsible for Suva's prevention campaigns for many years. Now new subjects on the subject of fair play are following. Because there is too much fouling on Swiss sports fields. Every year, this results in numerous injuries, some of them serious - at high cost to Suva. The "Ballet pose" motif is food for thought for all footballers to focus on their playing skills instead of bad fouls. The "Trinkbidon" motif can be used for all sports, including handball and volleyball, for example.
The subjects are used in sports magazines and as posters in the sports environment.
Responsible at Suva: Susan Huber-Brun (Marketing + Communication of the SuvaLiv brand). Responsible at Ruf Lanz: Markus Ruf, Danielle Lanz (Creative Direction), Grit Wolany (Art Direction), Torsten Maas (Text), Michèle Leibacher (Consulting). Photography: Felix Streuli.

The Internet platform Twitter is enjoying growing popularity, but has not yet been able to translate this into corresponding profits. Now, U.S. computer giant Dell is helping the up-and-coming web newcomer find a profitable business model. The world's second-largest PC manufacturer has earned more than three million dollars from users who clicked on Dell messages published on Twitter and then bought products from the computer giant.
Three million dollars in two years is just a pleasant sideline for Dell, with sales of more than $12 billion in the first quarter alone. For Twitter, on the other hand, which until now has not been involved in sales like those of Dell, the figures made public on Friday are a great ray of hope, according to experts. The Internet platform could retain from companies in the future a part of their proceeds over Twitter. Twitter does not rule this out for the future. "The company will increasingly strive for profitability," a company spokeswoman said, according to SDA.
Twitter is one of the newest communication services on the Internet, sending messages of up to 140 characters. The number of users increased by more than 1,000 percent last year to 24 million worldwide.
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The winner of the 11th Media Prize of the Swiss Bar Association (SAV) is Dominique Strebel, who writes for the Beobachter. According to SDA, he was honored for an article about three young women who were committed to the Hindelbank penal institution 40 years ago without a legal verdict. Strebel gave the women, then aged 16, 17 and 19, a voice some 40 years later. "His articles question the functioning of the law," said the jury, headed by Franz Steinegger, praising the journalistic achievement of the Beobachter editor. Strebel was awarded 6,000 Swiss francs and a sculpture by Basel artist René Küng.
The SAV also awarded prizes to Rundschau editor Elvira Stadelmann for her article "Die Parkhausmörderin" and radio editors Regula Zehnder and Christian Schmid for the program "100 Jahre ZGB". These secondary prizes are endowed with CHF 2,000 each.

Maurus Dosch will be the new Head of Finance and Human Resources at SRG Romansh Radio and Television in Chur. The Board of Directors elected the 43-year-old on Friday as the successor to Theo Haas, who is retiring at the end of March 2010.
Dosch, who lives in Tinizong GR, will take up the new position at the beginning of next year, as Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha (RTR) announced according to SDA. He has been employed by RTR since June 2002 as Chief of Staff of the Directorate. RTR Director Mariano Tschuor had proposed Dosch to the Board of Directors for election.
Maurus Dosch becomes head of a new department, which includes finance, the
Human Resources and Corporate Development. This department is a further step in the convergent work at RTR, which has already been implemented in programming, program services and technology.

In collaboration with Omnitron Engineering&Software, the multimedia agency Hof3 has realized a digital pedestrian guidance system for the city of Biel. The shortest route to the desired destination can be called up via an integrated route function on 22 information pillars with touch screens. In addition to the city map, users can access various information on culture and tourism, shopping, gastronomy and administration, according to the press portal. From Saturday, pedestrians will also be able to read quotes from personalities on the subject of communication on the interactive information pillars.

The Media IAM initiative has launched a new generic marketing campaign to promote advertising at airports. The agency S2 Concept Design has created motifs with an X-ray look, which can now be seen at eleven airports in Germany and Switzerland. The aim is to draw attention to a broad target group selection of air travelers.
The airports will continue to advertise on their own behalf until the end of the year. According to Wuv.de, various advertising media will be used: the passenger information system, slide boxes in the middle of the baggage carousel as well as Colorama surfaces in the waiting areas and illuminated outdoor advertising media. From the fall, an airport TV with a mix of passenger information, news and advertising is also to be installed in Cologne/Boonn.

Despite the ruling of the Constitutional Court, Nicolas Sarkozy continues to uphold his HADOPI law (Haute autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des drotis sur Internet). This means that people who are repeatedly accused of illegally downloading films and music from the internet can have their internet connection cut without a court order. In the eyes of the court, this procedure is unconstitutional. The country's highest constitutional court declared the government's previously passed legislation to be unlawful. However, despite this decision, the responsible ministers in Sarkozy's cabinet decided on Thursday evening to pass the controversial law in the next few days - albeit without the criticized passages. According to Netzwoche.ch, the government wants to revise these and adapt them to the requirements of the constitutional judges.