The Chicago Tribune joined its Tribune sister papers in the “Summer of Redesigns” this morning with a striking new look. Tribune graphics editor Steve Cavendish gives us an inside look into the project and also shares a slide show of the first day’s edition. Chicago Tribune launches redesign from Steve Dorsey on Vimeo. The Trib […]
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“War has been declared”
Written by Matt Erickson Four words seemed to sum up how Lee Abrams feels about the state of the newspaper industry: “Let’s fix this thing.” With that, Tribune Co.’s first chief innovation officer set the tone for an hour of “aggressive action to reclaim our turf.” Abrams spoke with the president and executive editor of […]
Covering the earthquake
This design portfolio showcases pages following China’s Sichuan earthquake in May, 2008. Lily Lu, regional director of SND Chinese, collects 40 pages from 40 newspapers to illustrate the courageous design from the country’s visual journalists during a devastating moment. Looking at these pages, one can easily across the language barrier to feel the sadness which […]
Sporting News Today
Designers have been fighting about this for years — does the print design reading experience translate to the web at all? The Sporting News thinks so enough to hire a staff of visual journalists from newspapers (Virginian-Pilot, Charlotte Observer) to put out a new, daily PDF sports section called Sporting News Today, available on their […]
SND board will meet in Las Vegas this weekend
The Society’s board will gather for its spring meeting this weekend in Las Vegas, the site of this year’s annual workshop. On the agenda are several important issues, including an expansion into China, a possible move of the SND headquarters, a first look at the program for SND Vegas, an assessment of how the sweeping […]
Garcia launches Xpress, first free paper in Thailand
You never know where in the world Mario Garcia will be any given day. The global design guru just finished celebrating the launch of Daily Xpress, Thailand’s first free newspaper. And he did it in style, with a cool launch party at Centara, Central World, with more than 2,000 guests. The paper launched Wednesday with […]
Matt Mansfield leaving Merc leadership post
The Society’s Vice President, Matt Mansfield, is leaving his longtime leadership role at the San Jose Mercury News, where he is a deputy managing editor and business development director. Mansfield steps down as part of the paper’s latest voluntary staff reductions. The buyout announcements go out this week. Mansfield joined the Mercury News as news […]