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Sunday Times redesign

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alan
on 17, July, 2008
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After a couple of busy weeks since the launch of the new Sunday Times, I managed to contact News International’s art director for new projects, Al Trivino, and he was kind enough to send some pages.

Overall, I think it’s a classy bit of work, although I’m still not keen on the old broadsheet size. Just too bloody big.

It seems a certain Mario Garcia got in before me on the blogging front and has posted his thoughts on the Times’ redesign and a Q&A with Al over at his new blog, which is well worth a daily visit by the way.

The Guardian’s Mark Porter has also had his say, read it here.

So here goes. Before is on the left, after on the right.

And a new news spread

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Army of designers used for UK Mirror redesign

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alan
on 4, July, 2008
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Interesting piece over at the Press Gazette where they speak to the Mirror’s associate editor, Matt Kelly about their recent redesign.

The new look, with entirely different fonts, headings, full-colour pages, icons, graphics and more coherent features sections such as Your Life, has led some to describe it as magazine-like.

But for Kelly, this criticism “is purely to do with the amount of colour. It’s something people are getting used to. It’s nothing to do with the design or the content”.

He says the Your Life women’s features section – modelled on women’s glossy magazines – is a “daily magazine”. It is one of many “sub-brands” within the paper that the new design has attempted to give a distinct identity, along with Your Money, Mirror Sport and comment, which could be expanded to work online or even on mobile.

They also speak to Francisco Amaral from Cases Associats.

What we normally do is try to get into the client’s life, what they do and what the market is, but in the case of the Mirror, we came with an army of designers to understand what they are doing and develop an understanding of the Mirror’s principles.

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