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Boston’s Kristin Lenz moves to Washington Post

Designer Kristin Lenz, who has been at the Boston Globe a little less than a year has been named the new art director of the Washington Post financial section.

Kristin Lenz on stage

Kristin on stage at SND/Boston.
Photo by Steve Dorsey.

Previously, Kristin spent nearly two years at The Hartford Courant. Before that, she designed pages for The Orange County Register, The Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News.

A few samples of Kristin’s work:

Kristin Lenz sample 1 Kristin Lenz sample 2 Kristin Lenz sample 3 Kristin Lenz sample 4

Find more in her NewsPageDesigner gallery.

Read more about Kristin’s move at SND/Update.

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Laid-off LAT designer helping other laid-off employees find jobs

Erica Smithwho’s covered the disintegration of the newspapers like no other — posted a fabulous Q&A yesterday with Amy Martin, recently laid off from the Los Angeles Times.

Amy is offering to redesign resumés for other laid-off journalists, hold classes for out-of-work designers and to put them in touch with a financial planner who works for free.

Don’t miss this article, folks. Find it on Erica’s Graphic Designr blog.

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My last day at The Virginian-Pilot

Today was my last day at The Virginian-Pilot.

It was definitely bittersweet. You can’t spend four and three-quarters years at a daily newspaper and not grow attached to the place. But you also can’t lose your job and be moved into a lesser one without becoming profoundly disappointed.

I couldn’t be happier with my new gig at The Sporting News Today. I report for work in Charlotte on Tuesday. But still, I’ve been in the daily newspaper business for more than a quarter-century. It feels strange to be suddenly out of it.

My Pilot friends were most gracious. Everything was so upbeat and positive. I couldn’t have asked for a better last day at work. My supervisor for the past six months — presentation team leader Paul Nelson — gave me a wonderful sendoff. My good friend, photographer Martin Smith-Rodden, was kind enough to shoot the party they threw for me this afternoon.

Paul makes his remarks

Paul Nelson makes his remarks
while I try — and fail — to look humble.

Deputy managing editor Deb Withey observed my diabetes by skipping the traditional cake and opting instead for Chick-Fil-A nuggets. Oh, how I love Chick-Fil-A.

She said she told the manager of the local Chick-Fil-A that I’d give them a plug in my blog. And sure enough, this is that plug. The nuggets were wonderful. As was the cool, cool Chick-Fil-A schwag the manager threw in.

Deb tells her Chick-Fil-A story

Deb gives me a limited-edition Chick-Fil-A calendar.
It was a little chewy; not quite as delicious as the nuggets.

Denis with a cell camera

The man who hired me — my good friend Denis
Finley, the editor of the Pilot — is a former photog.
He’s traded his Nikon for a Blackberry.

Denis grip and grin

Then Denis compels Martin to shoot a dreaded grip-
and-grin with the guy wearing the cool Chick-Fil-A hat.

I received a card and some very nice Pilot items. By friend Bob Voros went nuts for his former boss, buying me an enormous NASA history book, a Darth Vader bobblehead and the new animated Batman: Gotham Knight DVD. Bob knows me so well.

My friends stunned me, though, by presenting me with a framed collage of graphics, illustrations and pages I’ve built over the years I worked here. Miranda Mulligan put the piece together, I’m told.

Unwrapping Miranda’s picture

Stunned speechless by Miranda’s collage.

The crowd applauds

The crowd applauds. Now that I think about it,
I’ll bet they were applauding the fact that I was
speechless.

Bob, me and Miranda

Bob and Miranda show off the collage.
Just fabulous.

I’m going to miss Bob and Miranda — and John Earle, who was on vacation this week and missed my last day.

I’m going to miss them all.

Next up: Finish packing Saturday. Drive down to Rock Hill Sunday. Find temporary housing Monday. Begin work Tuesday.

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An update about me and the blog

By now, you know I have a new job. This is my last week at The Virginian-Pilot.

Frequent readers of this blog also are aware I’ve not been posting much lately. That’s because I’ve been on vacation the past two weeks and internet access has been scarce.

So we returned home Saturday, I jumped online and began returning the literally hundreds of messages I couldn’t get to via web mail via dial-up modems and using neighbors’ wifi signals.

And then what happened? My own Cox internet crapped out on me. We have someone coming my Monday to take a look at it for us.

While I was back home, though, I missed a number of birthdays I would have normally observed:

July 2: Ken Mowry of Bank of America
July 2: Keith Claxton, Chicago Tribune
July 3: Chris Courtney, RedEye
July 4: Travis Ricks, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

My apologies, guys.

In addition, there are a number of news items I’m behind in posting. I’ll try to get them up soon. But bear with me, please, I’m a little busier than usual. My schedule:

Saturday, July 5: We return from a two-week vacation
Sunday, July 6: Begin packing up my home office and meet with our real-estate agent.
Monday, July 7: Return to work at the Pilot. I’m working the night shift in graphics to cover for someone else.

Tuesday, July 8: Fly to Lexington, Ky.
Wednesday, July 9: Teach an all-day session for the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association.
Thursday, July 10: Fly home.

Friday, July 11: Return to work at the Pilot. I’m working my usual day shift. It’s my last day at the Pilot.
Saturday, July 12: Finish packing up my home office and pack for my move.

Sunday, July 13: Drive to Rock Hill, S.C., where I’ll hunt for temporary housing.
Monday, July 14: Move into temporary housing and begin hunting for a home.
Tuesday, July 15: Begin work at The Sporting News.

And that’s not counting the paperwork I need to do with our agent, the updating I need to do to my Lexington show, reacquiring my internet access, picking up my car from the body shop (again) and leaving Sharon ready to get the house ready to show.

Whew! I’m pooped, and I haven’t even made a dent in all this.

In the meantime, though, the blog will continue. Please check in regularly.

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Charles Apple leaving Virginian-Pilot for Sporting News e-paper

It’s official. I’m leaving The Virginian-Pilot. I’m the new art director for Sporting News Today, a daily newspaper that will launch July 23.

 Friday morning blogging

Blogging in Manila, March 2007.

The unusual thing about this new paper: It’s not a “paper” at all — it’s totally electronic. A PDF file, in fact. With no printing presses, west-coast scores won’t be a problem at all.

What’s even more unusual about it: It’s free.

Sign up here. Every morning, you’ll receive a link in your e-mail. Click on the link and the PDF will open in your browser. When I saw what these guys were working on, the big question I had was: Why aren’t all newspapers delivered this way?

Sporting News Today

And the prototype pages are gorgeous. Very clean. Sporting News creative director Keith Wood has done a fabulous job setting up the format. It’ll be my task — and the task for my team — to make it all work.

I’ll supervise about six designers and production folks. But first, we’ll have to hire them. And fast. Like I said, we go live July 23.

My last day at work at the Pilot will be Friday, July 11. I’ll begin work in Charlotte on July 15. Sharon will pack up the cats, the dog, the guinea pigs, the turtles and other household vermin and follow as soon as she sells our condo in Virginia Beach.

On a related issue: Anyone want a nice condo in Virginia Beach?  

Sporting News Today an exciting new idea and I’m just tickled to be a part of it. And honored. I’ve been a fan of The Sporting News ever since I was introduced to it by my best pal in high school, Bailey Harris. Bailey’s now a big-time high school basketball coach in Lexington, S.C. I can’t wait to tell him I’m working for TSN. He’ll freak.

The New York Times did a big piece on the renaissance at The Sporting News a couple of weeks ago, focusing on this new venture. Perhaps you saw it.

The Sporting News is in the process of moving its entire operation to Charlotte, N.C., which is much closer to home for me. In fact, I graduated from Winthrop College in nearby Rock Hill, S.C., in 1984 and worked for a while as a sports stringer for The Charlotte Observer.

We moved back to Rock Hill in 1988 and lived there four-and-a-half years while I worked at — and redesigned — The Herald. We moved away right after our daughter was born in 1993.

The obligatory bio material: Before coming to the Pilot in 2003, I was graphics editor of The Des Moines Register for about four-and-a-half years. (Anyone detecting a pattern? It’s not intentional. My wife is quite frustrated by the fact that I’ve never quite become vested in a 401K plan.)

Before that, I worked as an artist at the Chicago Tribune, The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., The Herald and The Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald.

I graduated from Winthrop College in 1984 with a degree in communications and a minor in political science. Find my portfolio here.

Ironically, I recently set a record at The Virginian-Pilot for the longest I’ve ever stayed at one paper. My previous record was the aforementioned four-and-a-half years in Rock Hill from 1988 to 1993. I passed that mark here in April.

I came here as graphics director in October 2003, quite open about my intent to only remain here two years. We did a lot of fabulous work in the meantime, though. That’s a credit to my fabulous staffers: Bob Voros. John Earle. Ken Wright. Miranda Mulligan. Xinning Huang. And to the incredibly talented interns who called the Pilot graphics department home: Rachel Matthews. Xinning, again. Lindi Daywalt-Feazel. Ji Qi. Allisence Chang.

My managerial position was eliminated on Jan. 2. My bosses were most gracious and generous about what essentially became a demotion for me. And my longtime colleague — Pilot presentation team leader Paul Nelson — suddenly became my supervisor. And man, has he been a patient guy.

I’m 46 years old. I teach a lot of classes on news design and graphics. I blog a bit. But you know that. For a larger view of the Sporting News Today, tickle the thumbnail:

 A larger view

Again, read more about Sporting News Today here.

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Orlando’s Kynton Chan leaving newspapers

Bonita Burton, AME of the Orlando Sentinel wrote Friday:

I’m sorry to announce that designer Kynton Chan is leaving the Sentinel to return to the Rocky Mountains for a career in financial planning. His last day will be July 11.

Kynton

Since joining the Sentinel in 2005, Kynton has designed nearly every section of the paper. He’s built an impressive portfolio in his time here, a body of work that includes the memorable “Everything Just Exploded” front page.

Kynton sample 5

Kynton’s sense of humor and optimistic spirt have kept us all smiling through the toughest of times. Please join me in wishing him well in his new ventures.

A few samples:

Kynton sample 1 Kynton sample 2 Kynton sample 3 Kynton sample 4

Find more of Kynton’s work in his NewsPageDesign gallery.

Best wishes, Kynton!

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