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Oct. 14th Explaining the financial mess: calling Nigel Holmes

TAKEAWAY: He is the ultimate graphic thinker to make the complicated easier for the rest to understand. He is Nigel Holmes, one of British’s greatest exports to America—-long before Tina Brown.  He is back trying to show us the way in the midst of the current financial crisis.

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Oct. 13th El Centro: A Mexican newspaper laughs all the way to the end

TAKEAWAY: It was lively. It was funny, tongue in cheek and aimed at young readers in the Mexican capital. It ceased publication Oct. 11, no longer able to sustain itself.

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Oct. 13th The fun factor in newspapers during time of crisis

strong>TAKEAWAY: Ask an American editor about British journalism and the likely answer will probably be “racy”; ask a British editor the same question about U.S. newspapers and you are likely to hear something like “bloody serious”.

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Oct. 11th Covering the financial crisis in Italy: Il Secolo shows its front pages

TAKEAWAY: We have used this blog during the past week to discuss visual coverage of the financial crisis that grips the globe.  The design director of Il Secolo XIX of Genoa, Italy, shares his pages and insights with us.

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Oct. 10th Surprises on Page One: Ben Franklin to the rescue at the St. Petersburg Times

TAKEAWAY: This week we have been discussing visual coverage of the financial crisis that seems to engulf the globe for the past two weeks. Here is an example of an illustration on Page One: quite successful, surprising, tells the story well, and stops the reader, making him want to read more.

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Oct. 9th Another arrow pointing down? What to do to avoid visual repetition

TAKEAWAY: The Dow Jones plunges below 9000. One more day of chaos in the financial markets worldwide. We will wake up to front pages with those arrows pointing down. Oh, no, not again.  When does an image become a visual cliché?

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Oct. 8th US dailies experiment with front pages

TAKEAWAY: The good news is that the front pages of many U.S. dailies are experimenting and looking for new ways of presenting information: what do they wish to be when they grow up?

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Oct. 8th Elite newspapers, free newspapers: the future lies somewhere here

TAKEAWAY: Some may be highly analytic, others may be more mass market and free: newspapers will redefine themselves to be quite different from the way we know them today.

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Oct. 7th The Tampa Tribune: another soft relaunch, not a redesign

TAKEAWAY: This is my hometown newspaper, so I am a reader of the Tribune.  I feel the changes are light, but redesigns take time to evolve—-and to grow on the readers.

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Oct. 5th Salzburger Nachrichten: The Austrian daily goes for a soft relaunch

TAKEAWAY: Nine years after Garcia Media did the first major redesign of the Salzburger Nachrichten, the publisher now opted for a “soft relaunch”. We tell you how it was done.

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Oct. 4th Sunday Sequel: magazine vs. newspaper design; Paris Match case study

TAKEAWAY: The design of a magazine and a newspaper share several characteristics, but there are differences too. We discuss the issue in this posting.

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Oct. 1st Paris Match: the remaking of a French institution

Updated October 2, 11:30 pm EST

TAKEAWAY: Paris Match is more than a magazine, it is an icon of French journalism. As it turns 60, it gets a new look, a new reorganization, but preserves all that has made it the grand dame of magazines anywhere. The premiere issue with new look is out today: we tell you about our experience working with the Paris Match team.

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Oct. 1st The Oklahoman, Day 3: Reacting to what readers say about a redesign

TAKEAWAY: It never fails: with every redesign project comes a mixed reaction from the readers; however, it is the ones who don’t like the new look who write, phone and email more consistently. Here I answer your three questions about it.

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Sep. 29th The Oklahoman: readers’ reactions to the new format

TAKEAWAY: Some like us, some don’t. It takes time for readers to get used to a new design of their newspaper, and especially a totally different, narrower format. Here is what the first day callers told us at The Oklahoman.

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Sep. 28th The Oklahoman adopts narrower format, gets new look, total rethinking

TAKEAWAY: The Oklahoman project launches today. Readers will see a narrower (44”) and longer format, different fonts, better navigation, more color. Most importantly, even the newspaper’s nameplate has been redesigned.

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