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Jonathon Berlin

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Joined: 12 Mar 2004

Posts: 59

Location: San Jose, CA

Posted:
Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:21 am

Here's a link: http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/by_category_detail.php?Category=Business

Here's a look at our new tech section. This section launched today, June 18, and starts a week of revamped business sections.

This is a partial redesign for the Merc. We're using the business section as a lab for the rest of the paper. We're trying some new things, ditching what doesn't work and keeping/improving the rest. Also using it as Phase 1 to make the section vastly more interactive.

These are the first three pages of the section.

The cover represents our bolder, more local, more useful approach to the news. Here our lead tech columnist Dean Takahashi breaks down why you should or shouldn't buy an iPhone (Apple is right down the road from us). We breakout his top plusses and minuses as buttons on the phone. This page is by designer Chris Strach.

The inside spread represents what we'd like to do with some of our inside pages: More local, more energetic, much more useful.

** Haven't been able to crack the code of getting images onto these posts ... any help appreciated.

We also worked with advertising to come up with a new ad strategy for the sections.

Look for more pages this week.

Jonathon

scavendish

VizEds Moderator

Joined: 08 Mar 2004

Posts: 761

Location: Chicago Tribune

Posted:
Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:47 am

Jonathon Berlin wrote::

here you go . . .

martin gee

Ninja

Joined: 15 Jul 2004

Posts: 851

Location: the merc

Posted:
Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:28 am

more pages here:
http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=7322

first biz+tech cover:

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Joe Greco

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Joined: 24 Jun 2004

Posts: 36

Location: Chicago burbs

Posted:
Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:59 pm

JB, Matt, this section is visually incredible. Clean, sleak and user-friendly. You guys continue to amaze.
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Robb Montgomery

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Joined: 07 Mar 2004

Posts: 1504

Location: Chicago

Posted:
Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:29 am

If you are interested in how the prototyping process for this project began - I wrote posted up some photos in this blog entry.

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