The Times redesigns its Weekend Saturday edition with wonderful typography and a broadsheet format.
“The most obvious change is that the new Saturday Review section marks a return to broadsheet format. And after all those tabloids it does look big: a great sheet of newsprint, only really safely navigated at home on the Saturday breakfast table. (How do those Daily Telegraph readers manage on the train during the week?) The large format, with its nod back to Times past, signals that the section contains the serious stuff of ‘arts, books and ideas’.”
via Eye
The Financial Times redesigns their website to closer match the newspaper (in its color anyway) and modernize their information architecture a bit. The added whitespace is a nice touch.
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… And another newspaper unveils a redesign – The Tampa Tribune.
via Charles Apple
The Independent redesigns its paper with huge type and full of color. The Independent hopes to bring its readers back around with their bold new statement despite its new £1 price tag.
“The overall effect is to bring a very welcome vitality, which the old paper lacked (with the exception of the front page).”
via Guardian
Wallstreet Journal Redesign = “lots of wonderful gizmos”, an interesting four-word description for the 2nd largest newspaper in the U.S (with an average daily circulation of over 2 million) from Robert Thomson, managing editor of the Journal.
WSJ.com scheduled redesign launch: September 16, 2008.
via Wired
A redesign of The Sunday Times will launch this Sunday with a £3m marketing campaign featuring Peter O’Toole and a new slogan: “The Sunday Times. For all you are.”
via The Guardian
The Wall Street Journal Launches Redesign
“From the beginning, Murdoch had no intention of radically altering the appearance of the Journal, once known for its ink-dot black-and-white illustrations. The series of editorial and design changes introduced this week, and yet to come, are more evolutionary than revolutionary. Collectively, however, his modifications represent a shift more profound perhaps than any of the previous overhauls in the paper’s 119-year history, including its late-to-the-party introduction of photographs in the 1980s, to its redesign of the iconic front page in 2002. Under Murdoch, news stories on politics and national and international affairs may just as often dominate page one as the business pieces that have been its bread and butter. Along with the refocused front page, Murdoch is effectively relaunching the entire A section as a catchall for general news. As of Monday, the second section, Marketplace, becomes home to the Journal’s coverage of corporate America, while the third section, Money and Investing, remains the showcase for news of the financial markets and investing. A culture section is under development for a fall debut in the Journal’s weekend edition, and Murdoch has added a weekly sports page. The op-ed section, famous for its erudite and influential espousal of conservative ideology, will grow to three pages from two.”
