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The Rocky Mountain News redesign

Newspapers are changing.

Content is changing, multimedia is changing, and even design is changing.

Some newspapers are now catering to their readers by changing print size. Instead of tall, long pages, newspapers are starting to print on shorter, wider, pages that are more convenient to read on the subway or at the office.

The Rocky Mountain News recently made a drastic redesign that puts into print the changes that newspapers are dealing with. The paper reduced their size, and chose new fonts to change their design to be "conceived more like a magazine."

This Rocky Mountain News Web site explains the basic changes that The Rocky Mountain News has made, and why they decided to redesign.

Design poll

Learning Adobe InDesign

Many copy editors either use Adobe InDesign or Quark to lay out newspaper or magazine pages at the end of the night. I have never worked with Quark before, but I do think that learning the basics of InDesign can jump start a copy editing career.

This site has a great “basic InDesign” tutorial that is animated and easily understandable.

There are also many other sites that offer other InDesign skills such as how to create your own template, and more advanced skills.

Mommy Britney and Brangelina

Today, magazine covers are littered with high-paid celebrities and their model girlfriends. Cover design has to be catchy to draw in the attention of the readers, and apparently actors and actresses are the best way to do this. But, it didn’t always used to be that way.

This article by Coury Turczyn demonstrates the changes in cover design over time. It features “Then & Now: A Magazine Cover Design Face-off,” comparing the covers of magazines such as Vanity Fair and Fortune to 50 years ago.

While Turczyn adds in a few personal opinions, the article gives a good representation of how readers have changed, and what magazines have done with design to keep readers coming back for more.

Curse of the Bambino

Gabcast! Journ 475 #0



There are two sides to every story, and there are two types of people. The yankee fans, and the Red Sox fans. You might not consider yourself in either of these groups, but during the seventh game of the American League Championship Series, every one picked a side, including the media.

The article, written by Warren Watson, is an accurate representation of how different newspapers reacted to the Red Sox’s unexpected win. Watson provides a gallery of front pages that illustrates how differently eastern and western newspapers covered the game. This article is great visual proof that there is indeed two sides to every story.

Less can be more

Designing for a newspaper on a “big news” day, such as the death of Gerald Ford or even the Cougar’s loss in the Apple Cup, can be a challenging task. Designers struggle with how to place more focus on one story, and still accurately tell the rest of the news.

In the article “One Image, One Word,” Anne Van Wagener points out ways to accomplish just this.

In this article Wagener speaks about how simple design can make a powerful statement. She gives examples of layout during Hurricane Katrina. Wagener makes a powerful argument that a devastating phenomenon, such as September 11th or Hurricane Katrina, deserves a clean and accurate design. Rather than using several images of the event, she suggests using the most powerful image to evoke feelings from the readers. Pictures stacked upon one another can draw attention away from each photograph’s emotion. A simple, bold headline can accomplish this same effect.