Ariel Freaner | Freaner & Associates

Ariel Freaner received three awards of excellence from the Society of news design

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The SND Society of News Design awarded Ariel Freaner three excellence awards for his ZETA covers No. 1717, 1721, and 1741. This is the fourth straight year that Mr. Freaner and ZETA Weekly newspaper have received this prestigious award.

Ariel Freaner was previously invited to be a part of the Judge panel selected team in 2007 to rule on the 28th Edition of “The Best of Newspaper Design™ Creative Competition Edition”.

About the SND: The competition invites entries from all general circulation newspapers published anywhere in the world.
The Society for News Design encourages high standards of journalism through design. An international forum and resource for all those interested in news design, SND works to recognize excellence and strengthen visual journalism as a profession.
The Society for News Design (formerly the Society of Newspaper Design) is an international professional organization with more than 2,600 members in the United States, Canada and more than 50 other countries.
We want to thank the SND, ZETA Weekly for all of their support. In the same token of appreciation we want to share this important award with our clients.

MEET THE JUDGES: THE PHOTO TEAM

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Judges for the Best of Newspaper Design™ Creative Competition are selected by the SND Competition Committee from a list of nominations sent by SND members around the world. The Competition Committee seeks a diverse slate of judges from all parts of the world, representing various publication types and sizes. Thirty judges are selected each year to serve on one of the six five-member judging teams. The committee also names two "generalist" judges for categories two through 21. A "generalist" steps in when a judge discovers a conflict that prevents him or her from casting a vote on an entry. Judging takes place at Syracuse (N.Y.) University over two long weekends in February. Each judge is assigned to one weekend. SND pays for judges' travel, lodging and meals.

LENA GRAPE LILLIEHORN is design and features editor at Östgöta Correspondenten, one of Sweden’s largest regional daily papers. She has been working with all aspects of editorial design since 1979. She was a board member for the Society for News Design/Scandinavia for five years and a member of the Scandinavian design jury for four years. She leads yearly seminars in typography, design and creativity at the Institute for Further Education of Journalists (Fojo) in Sweden.

PAUL WALLEN is a sports designer at The San Diego Union-Tribune. Wallen was previously the managing editor for visuals at the Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, and a design editor at The Baltimore Sun. He began his career as a journalist in the U.S. Navy and has worked as a writer, editor, graphic artist and designer at a variety of small and mid-size newspapers.

TIM BROEKEMA is an assistant professor of photojournalism/new media at Western Kentucky University. He has worked as a picture editor for The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.; the Providence Journal (R.I.); and the Chicago Tribune. Broekema was director of photography for the Kalamazoo Gazette (Mich.) before joining academia in 2001.

ARIEL FREANER is president of Freaner & Associates, in San Diego. As a designer, illustrator and photographer, he may be best known for his ZETA covers. He has won numerous awards from SND and was honored by Print magazine. His work has been published in the San Diego Union and Reforma. His clients include Motorola, Fujitsu, the U.S. Navy and Uniradio, among others.

JAMILA ROBINSON is the home editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. After 11 years as an award-winning features designer — with stints at the Detroit Free Press and The Washington Post — Jamila now uses her art direction and editing experience as a foundation for alternative and creative approaches to storytelling. [Jamila is a conflict judge for SND this year and works with all the teams]

About Freaner & Associates

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Freaner & Associates was founded in 1985 as a creative, design and advertising firm dedicated to a simple mission, "The Uncompromising Attention to Creative and design Quality". In fact, our personalized service and outstanding quality has driven our growth, fueled exclusively by word of mouth testimonials from our clients. Today we offer a breadth of services including graphic design, advertising, marketing communications and multimedia development.

Freaner & Associates, better know as F&A, is a world-class creative, advertising and multimedia design firm specializing in corporate marketing communications in San Diego, California and serving both sides of the border.

We are creative specialists with the technical expertise to integrate advertising, brochures, multimedia CDs and interactive website technologies into a comprehensive marketing communication strategy.

Our unique business value is the knowledge and experience we bring to the partnership of promoting products and services in new markets. By incorporating creativity, experience, specialized techniques and extensive attention to detail, we develop results-driven results to enhance your marketing investment.