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‘Redesigns’ archive

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Feb. 6: How does a college paper shake up its content for a cool new Friday edition?

The hugely talented Greg Mees — visual managing editor for the student paper at Colorado State University, Rocky Mountain Collegian — wrote me a week or so ago. Greg wrote: We are just getting back into the swing of things here at the Collegian for the spring semester and, with that, we have launched the Weekender. This is our new [...]

Feb. 5: Gannett’s Nashville Design Studio launches ‘big, bold’ redesign of Florida Today

Florida Today of Melbourne, Fla., launched a redesign this morning. On the left is a Sunday front from October. On the right is today’s front.   Chris Bistline of the Gannett Design Studio in Nashville writes: We wanted to share with you our redesign of Florida Today. We’re starting with Sunday 1A and will gradually roll out the new look [...]

Jan. 18: New font set for San Antonio Express-News matches Hearst papers in Houston and San Francisco (4)

The Express-News of San Antonio launched a redesign Tuesday. On the left is the front page for last Dec. 19. On the right is yesterday’s front.   A front-page note from Express-News editor Kyrie O’Connor listed the changes: • New typography and larger type size that make reading our stories easier. • Cleaner, more modern look that emphasizes our headlines and photographs. [...]

Jan. 11: Exiled Zimbabwean newspaper to launch redesign Thursday (4)

The Zimbabwean — a twice-weekly banned by the Zimbabwe government but published and distributed by expatriates in the U.K. and elsewhere — launches a redesign tomorrow. On the left is the most recent issue from Dec. 15. On the right is a prototype of the new look.   Here’s a closer look at that prototype page: UPDATE: That’s not a prototype. [...]

Jan. 9: Roger Black gives a thumbs-down to changes in the Houston Chronicle (6)

Roger Black notes today that no one has written about the recent typographical changes made to the Houston Chronicle. He’s quite right. I try to note all redesigns and tweaks — big and small — here in the blog. But so many papers are making changes to make their looks compatible with design hub practices that it’s difficult to keep [...]

Jan. 6: Behind the changes this week at the Washington Post

From a report earlier this week in the Washington Post: In Monday’s paper, The Washington Post debuted two new features and some tweaks to its design in the print edition. Among the changes: A digest of the day’s news across the bottom of Page A1 on weekdays. A daily look-ahead on Page A2. Featured commentary from Dan Balz, Chris Cillizza, [...]

Jan. 3: San Diego Union-Tribune makes changes to its nameplate, branding strategy (2)

The Union-Tribune of San Diego — under new ownership since mid-November — made a change to its branding strategy this morning. A note to readers today explains: We will now use one company name and logo on all of our media products and communications: U-T San Diego. This change marks a new era in our company’s history. It will help [...]

Jan. 1: Name change kicks in for St. Pete Times

For the record, here is the first edition of today’s newly-renamed Tampa Bay Times: The editorial down the left side is about the name change. Which is a bit better than yesterday’s centerpiece, which I thought was rather overplayed. Read the editorial here. Here is today’s front, side-by-side with Friday’s edition:   And, of course, here are the nameplates: Here’s [...]

Dec. 16, 2011: Javier Errea on working with limited space

Javier Errea — professor at the University of Navarra, president of the Spanish Chapter of the Society for News Design, coordinator of the Malofiej infographics competition, and on of the designers of Portugal’s i newspaper spoke with Sajeev Kumar T.K., SND’s Region 19 director and creator of the NewspaperDesign web site. Q. How can a visual journalist excel in the [...]

Dec. 6, 2011: So just how small IS a “super compact,” anyway?

And, speaking of Cincinnati… My esteemed consulting colleague* Ron Reason has been doing some work lately at the Cincinnati Enquirer. Which, in case you haven’t heard, is planning to shrink its daily paper to what’s called the “super compact” format. The change won’t happen for ten more months yet. But that’s not stopped the Enquirer — and the Louisville Design [...]

Dec. 6, 2011: Beeld of Johannesburg, South Africa, redesigns (1)

Beeld — a 73,344-circulation daily based in Johannesburg, South Africa — launched a redesign today. This is the third of three Afrikaans-language dailies owned by the Media24 company to redesign this spring (they’re in the Southern hemisphere, so it’s spring there). On the left is Monday’s front page. On the right is today’s.   I think it’s fair to say [...]

Dec. 2, 2011: News-Herald of Del Rio, Texas, redesigns (1)

The News-Herald, a 4,403-circulation daily in Del Rio, Texas — along the Mexican border and maybe 100 miles East of Big Bend — launched a redesign Monday. On the left is a front page from a month ago. On the right is Monday’s debut front.   Editor and Publisher Diana R. Fuentes writes: We may be small, but we have [...]

Nov. 21, 2011: Die Burger of Cape Town, South Africa, launches a redesign

Die Burger — a 59,808-circulation Afrikaans-language daily based in Cape Town, South Africa — launched a redesign today. On the left is a front from last January. On the right is today’s launch day front.   As I wrote two weeks ago, all three Media24 Afrikaans-language dailies in South Africa are redesigning this summer (summer for them; winter for us [...]

Nov. 11, 2011: New Straits Times of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, launches a redesign

The New Straits Times — a 200,000-circulation daily in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — launched a redesign today overseen by famed redesign consultant Mario Garcia. On the left is a “before” sample. On the right is today’s debut edition.   In addition to a new design, today’s edition also features an additional feature: Photos, ads and graphics are in 3D. Glasses [...]

Nov. 8, 2011: Volksblad of Bloemfontein, South Africa, launches redesign (2)

Volksblad — a 21,025-circulation Afrikaans-language daily based in Bloemfontein, South Africa — launched a redesign today. On the left is Monday’s front page. On the right is today’s launch edition.   Let’s see what I can tell you about the redesign… This redesign was started more than a year ago by Australian-based redesign consultant Peter Ong and then completed by [...]

Nov. 2, 2011: Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press launches a redesign (5)

The News-Press of Fort Myers, Fla. — a 73,375-circulation daily owned by Gannett — launched a redesign today that was performed by the new Nashville-based Design Studio. On the left is Tuesday’s front. On the right is today’s debut front.   Other than typographical upgrades, the most obvious change is the stacked nameplate and the much larger, louder skybox promo. [...]

Oct. 26, 2011: La Presse of Montreal, Canada, launches a redesign (2)

La Presse — a 214,953-circulation French-language daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, launched a redesign Tuesday. On the left is a Tuesday front from early August. On the right is yesterday’s launch-day front.   As you can see, very little changed on page one, other than the paper’s nameplate and the number and arrangement of the promos. Even the typefaces stayed [...]

Oct. 23, 2011: Sunday page one tweaks for the Minneapolis Star Tribune (3)

The Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Minn., made some changes to its Sunday front page today. The changes are relatively minor. As designer Josh Crutchmer tweeted last night: Debut of new skyboxes and color scheme for the Strib. On the left is a Sunday front from a couple of months ago. On the right is today’s front:   Here’s a closer [...]

Oct. 12, 2011: Redesign fail: The Burlington County Times of Willingboro, N.J. (39)

The Burlington County Times — a 27,057-circulation daily in Willingboro, N.J. — launched a redesign Tuesday. On the left is a front page from August. On the right is today’s second-day front.   Now folks, you know how hard I try to keep things positive here in the blog. And you know how much effort I expend extending positive reinforcement. [...]

Oct. 7, 2011: A redesign to merge two small papers in Illinois (1)

Jeff Ruble, designer and copy editor of the newly-renamed JG-TC in Mattoon, Ill., writes: I wanted to pass along a few examples of a project I worked on for the past few months at the Journal Gazette and Times-Courier. Though it’s nothing groundbreaking or terribly original, it was a great learning experience. We consolidated on Sept. 26 the two newspapers [...]

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