Redesigned Observer out today. Still pink.

I’m still mourning the broadsheet New York Observer, the city’s salmon-colored weekly that did such a good job reflecting the Upper  East Side in the 1990s. Even the ads, like the one for Mortimer’s which somehow is stuck in my head, reeked of the Social Register.

When they were still in that Upper East Side townhouse, I once walked in to visit someone. No one was there. I ventured past the reception area. No one. But nothing was locked. I wandered into a few more rooms, [Read more...]

I did this redesign following Frank Mina’s prototype for the Post. Daryn Rowley does daily art direction. The handsome new fonts allow us set headlines in a minimalist fashion, letting the art really pop. I love that lower-case g set in Zocalo Dislpay.

We’re a local paper. We consider that our strength. So how does our nation/world presentation figure in? We’ve broken away from a conventional layout. Frank Mina of the San Francisco Chronicle came up with this.

That headline probably could refer to any redesign project, but I’m talking about the Philly project that I’ve been following on Mario Garcia’s blog.

And now, fresh off the sale of the paper to creditors and the installation of new management, suddenly he announces that the tabloid half of the media company has unveiled its new look.

I gotta say, we’ve been swearing off condensed type here at the Connecticut Post, but I see it’s not completely dead yet.

If there’s a more exciting redesign project in Region 1, I have yet to hear about it. Today, Mario Garcia gives a few tidbits about his work in Philly.