City Press of Johannesburg, South Africa, redesigns
City Press — South Africa’s third-largest paper with an estimated circulation of 2.5 million — is launching a major redesign Sunday. The English-language weekly is based in Johannesburg.
A before-and-after of the front page:
A closer look at Sunday’s front:
Here is the sports front, before and after:
The business front…
…and the Voices front, which is the commentary/editorial section:
Over the past couple of weeks, City Press ran an interesting series of promotional ads leading up to the relaunch:
And, of course, City Press did some cool stuff in-house this week, as well, handing out coffee…
…and cupcakes.
The redesign was the brainchild of Australian-based design consultant Peter Ong. Here, Peter looks over advance pages:
Peter also redesigned the national Afrikaans-language Sunday paper, Rapport, last October. I was a part of that venture. Read all about it here.
Find Peter Ong’s web page here. Find City Press‘ home page here.
Many thanks to my good friend Arlene Prinsloo for sending me the pages and the pictures.