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Robb Montgomery

Founder

Joined: 07 Mar 2004

Posts: 1504

Location: Chicago

Posted:
Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:23 am

A Visual Editors triple-shot

1) The Berliner redesign of De Morgen redesign with comments from the art director Martin Huisman has been posted in the redesign blog

2) Martin has agreed to be our featured guest in special chat event this Thursday, 25 January 2007 at noon Chicago time.

3) You are in charge. Please post your advance questions or topic themes in this thread.

Please join Martin and the rest of the Visual Editors in the chat room on Thursday.

25 Jan. THURSDAY
Noon to 1 p.m. - Chicago time
(1200-1300 hrs. on -6 hrs GMT)

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mattmansfield

Karaoke King

Joined: 15 Mar 2004

Posts: 296

Location: San Jose Mercury News

Posted:
Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:53 pm

This is a great opportunity. The paper made a true transformation, and it's beautifully executed. I hope the VizEds community takes advantage of this chat!

One of my big questions is:

* How did you develop the robust color palette you use? The paper obviously is taking advantage of the new color capabilities. It would be great to hear how you chose the vibrant look and feel for all that color, and how you manage that effectively.

Thanks!

-Matt Mansfield
Deputy Managing Editor
San Jose Mercury News

Zsombor Pal

Newbie

Joined: 24 Jan 2007

Posts: 1

Location: London, United Kingdom

Posted:
Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:29 pm

Dear Mr Huisman,

first, congratulations to the new layout, it's a wonderful example of what a piece of paper should be used for in 2007. I really like what I've seen from it and I'd love to see my articles this well designed -- let's hope the De Morgen staff finds at least this inspirating.

I have to admit that I don't know much about the Belgian newspaper market -- is such a brave use of colors and pictures common among broadsheets or is this a pioneering attempt? If it's the latter, was it easy to convince your management and editors about your plans?

As far as I can judge, this version contains means shorter articles than what your journalists were probably used to. How do they like the changes and what other changes did the new layout bring, regarding the content?

Thanks,

Zsombor Pal
London

Alejandro Banuet

Tiki Lounger

Joined: 21 Nov 2004

Posts: 16

Location: permanent tourist

Posted:
Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:45 pm

Mr. Huisman,

I like the new DeMorgen very much, but my first question when I saw it was: what kind of changes did you had in your design department? and second, if the new design increased the time of production of the pages?

Thanks,

Alejandro Banuet
Monterrey, Mx

Ben Ramsden

Contributing editor

Joined: 08 Feb 2005

Posts: 125

Location: The Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minn.

Posted:
Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:54 am

Mr. Huisman,

I'm very impressed with the DeMorgen redesign. My question is: How do you balance a redesign without losing the identity of the newspaper. Does your market/readers influence your decisions?
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