Guerlla knitting: Kept the knits in colour so easier to see in situ, balanced with some fun balls of wall as lead.

Photo illustration/composite for a package on stalking. The EU criminalized it, but it wasn't illegal in the Czech Republic.

Reflective feature on protests held in Prague over the plight of Tibet. Aimed to keep the placard and headline from clashing.

Award of Excellence Front Page Weekly
From our photographer's personal collection of pictures of his new-born. Feature on legality of home birth and mid wives roles.

Design by neccessity, images all at print size, text on Czech innovations so made a pixar-inspired "desk lamp" layout.

Feature on industral spaces undergoing transformation so exposed and emphasised the grid the page is built on.

Handout art from a photo exhibit, challenging because all the images were vertical.

Award of Excellence Portfolio
Great shot from a rave, story on ecstasy use. Tight kerning and leading emulating club flyers.

Award of Excellence Portfolio
Two biennales in direct competition, with funding a problem. Available art: workers put up a poster for one, detail of one art work. 

Award of Excellence Section Front Weekly
Author shot in a bookshop felt heavy and blockish, so created four blocks postioned to balance it and draw the eye to his face.

Award of Excellence Front Page Weekly, Portfolio
Changed the crop and the grid to go full-photo package. Trend story about foreigners sending their children to Czech schools. 

Vibrant colour photos from the fairground printed in black-and-white. Planned the package to try to restore the dynamism.

Full-on poster page with a full-on photo on where to find pool tables in Prague. As hard to find as 4-colour pages. 

Handout art from a theatre production, second strory also had photos commissioned. Tricky squueze. 

Story investigating reports of child prostitution in a border town. We bought the well-loved doll, someone had red lipstick. 

Concept cover for a story on police wiretapping. Metallic bugs in the top right corner, main image is our copy editor's ear.  

Shots from a lively Interview with the Defense Minister. Instead of one static portrait, went with a pop and some facial movement. 

A pop and crop of our only shots of two Communist Party officials at odds about how to make the party relevant in a democracy. 

Nice handout art for this photography exhibit. First use of caption font Franklin Book as the display head came out clean. 

Prague held a global leadshership conference for teens. I'm not sure why they had ties around their heads, but I like the shot. 

Important story on the continued use of caged beds in mental health facilities. Static shot, so "claustrophic" packaging.

I loved this page. Great fighter jet handout art, first use of a kicker, first full photo lead package ... did I mention fighter jets?

During my time as designer and art director at The Prague Post, from 2002 till the last print edition in 2013, I won these Awards of Excellence from the European Newspaper Award (www.newspaperaward.org) including porfolio. Tight budgets meant scope for innovation with value placed on great story-telling, visually as well as writing. While many of these pages would make my favourites list, they are "curated" by the judges.