« Older Entries  |  Front page  |  Newer Entries »

Charles Apple: The Visual Side of Journalism

 

‘Redesigns’ archive

Number of comments in parentheses

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 [...]

Sept. 27, 2011: Florida Today of Melbourne, Fla., launches redesign (1)

Florida Today — a 67,970-circulation daily in Melbourne, Fla., — launched a redesign today. On the left is a front page from a month or so ago. On the right is today’s front.   See the changes? I think it’s fair to call them subtle at best. The rail is now a tint. Rules have been removed from everywhere except [...]

Sept. 12, 2011: Canada’s Hamilton Spectator launches redesign

The Spectator — a 95,611-circulation daily in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada — launched a redesign this morning. On the left is a recent front page. On the right is today’s front.   Editor-in-chief Paul Berton writes today in a story at the bottom of page one: We’ve added more local news pages to the front section, and more colour to [...]

Sept. 5, 2011: The Asbury Collegian redesigns. In a week. (1)

Riah Lawry, managing editor of the Collegian — the student paper at tiny 1,613-student Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky — writes this weekend: I realize many newspapers go through redesigns, but I never realized how difficult it would be until we attempted and completed a redesign this past week. Well, I wouldn’t say it’s complete. Design is never complete; it just [...]

Aug. 21, 2011: Daily News of Lufkin, Texas, launches a redesign (1)

The Daily News of Lufkin, Texas — circulation 12,542 — launched a redesign today. At left is a Sunday paper from a few months ago. At right is today’s front page.   An editorial in today’s paper explains the changes. We redesigned your newspaper with a bolder, more contemporary logo and headline type that we believe is more reflective of [...]

July 12, 2011: Times-News of Twin Falls, Idaho, launches a redesign (6)

UPDATED 3:15 p.m. EDT with fresh pages, commentary from the editor. — The Times-News of Twin Falls, Idaho launched a redesign today. And it’s a major remake. As you can see.   On the left is a front page from March. On the right is today’s front. This is the paper where Josh Awtry — previously, assistant managing editor for [...]

July 12, 2011: Huntsville (Ala.) Times makes a few design tweaks

Paul Wallen — design director of the Huntsville (Ala.) Times — tells us: With Tuesday’s paper, we reduced our web width by a little more than half an inch. At the same time, we introduced new fonts that will also be installed in Birmingham and Mobile, which should eventually make it easier for us to share some content. On the [...]

July 11, 2011: Can you imagine? The Philly Daily News a ‘loud, irreverant, fun tabloid.’

[Sarcasm mode off, now.] Among the several announcements Gregory Osberg –President and CEO of Philadelphia Media Network Inc., owners of the  Inquirer and the Daily News — made via a press release today was this bit about the tabloid Daily News: Osberg also announced that the transformation of the Philadelphia Daily News as a “loud, irreverent, fun tabloid” under the [...]

July 11, 2011: Daily Journal of Tupelo, Miss., launches redesign

The Daily Journal of Tupelo, Miss., launched a redesign this morning. On the left is a paper from last month. On the right is today’s debut front page.   The redesign was led by consultant Ed Henninger, I’m told. The paper’s last redesign was in 2002. A brief page-one story lists some of the changes: Updated typography for photo captions. [...]

June 19, 2011: Press-Tribune of Nampa, Idaho, launches redesign

The Press-Tribune — a 19,909-circulation daily in Nampa, Idaho, in the western suburbs of Boise — launched a redesign Sunday. On the right is today’s front page. On the left is a front from a few weeks ago. It’s a dramatic change. The typography is cleaner. White space is used better. And that nameplate. Wow. The new one is so [...]

June 16, 2011: Following up on the Chicago Tribune redesign (1)

Here is the front pages of today’s Chicago Tribune — Day Two of the new design. Thanks to the Newseum for that image. — THE TAB EDITION A question that came up since my original post early Wednesday… Q. Does this mean the end of the “tabloid-on-newsstands/broadsheet-at-home” split the Trib has been using for the last few years? A. It [...]

« Older Entries

Newer Entries »