What makes this page a BFD: Elegant, inventive and inspired solutions.
Three stories were seen most often on front pages today: the weather, football and Martin Luther King. The San Antonio Express-News got extra mileage out of their lovely weather photo with a "directional" headline. The Chicago papers provided an excellent tutorial on cropping. Check out these examples from the Chicago Tribune (good), Chicago Sun-Times (better) and RedEye (best). No one topped Link's presentation of the MLK story for sheer impact, with a powerfully simple solution – proving once again that less is more.
The Times Herald-Record gave over its entire front page to a photo of its executive editor, Mike Levine, who died of a heart attack yesterday. Several papers had more punch, but none topped The Virginian-Pilot for elegance and inventiveness, making it today's best front design.
The Pilot provided a child's perspective on Martin Luther King – an inspired and unique solution. The weather package combined a headline that cut to the heart of the matter, an energetic photo and an informational graphic that served up the forecast. Then the Pilot turned a boring meeting photo into must-see V-P with a very clever, but telling, headline.
This page shows how to use all the tools of presentation (headlines, typography, photographs, illustration, informational graphics, white space) to maximum effect.
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A newspaper war, that is. The Sunday Star Times, New Zealand's largest newspaper, faces fierce competition on the newsstand from two tabloids. So it was redesigned to improve its above-the-fold presentation. The complete story will appear here and in the next issue of SND's DESIGN.
The Californian's redesign earned it a spot on Editor & Publisher's list of “Ten That Do it Right.” According to E&P, Bakersfield is appealing to its “really, really conservative market with a really, really radical redesign.”
And its working.
Circulation stops are down and revenue is up – over a thousand inches in the redesigned real estate section alone.
See before and after, see more pages and read the stories.
The Eureka (CA) Reporter was just a 6,000-circ. weekly in 2004. Our radical yet elegant redesign helped this startup weekly grow to a daily in less than two years. The Reporter goes head-to-head with an established daily owned by Dean Singleton, who told The San Francisco Chronicle last month that his competitor, “does some good design things.” The Society of News Design agrees – they cited this redesign as one of the best in the world. See more pages.
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