Category Archives: Newspaper Design
Classy Classifieds!
Been looking at some old newspapers for a research project and this issue of The Straits Times Classifieds section in 1989 caught my attention! The colours are like that because I took photos straight off the microfilm reader. And here … Continue reading
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Can design save newspapers?
Short but sweet. It’s a call out to empower designers to play a bigger role in newspapers. I second that.
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It’s always grey in TODAY
Halfway into the interview, Design Editor Edric Sng suddenly asks (one of many times) for my thoughts on TODAY’s newspaper design and that is when I fumble. It took me a while, but I remembered another blog’s gripe about how … Continue reading
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The Best Newspapers Are Toilet Papers
The test for how good a newspaper is, according to TODAY’s Design Editor Edric Sng, is how well it fares in the toilet. The writing must be good enough to sustain a “good long shit” and it has to be … Continue reading
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Why Visual Journalism Like That in Singapore
Below is a videolog I made for an assignment as part of COM412: Journalism Reimagined.
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Typefaces of Singapore Newspaper Nameplates
Here’s a list of the nameplates of Singapore’s english newspapers and what typefaces they use. I’ve also included popular contemporary references that also use the same typeface, maybe the choice of usage says something about the paper? Typeface: Big Caslon … Continue reading
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SND30: No Singapore Winners
The Society of News Design (SND) gave out its 30th edition of awards for the five best designed newspapers in the world and you can see the results here. While I do not think Singapore newspapers have ever won the … Continue reading
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Redesigning newspapers and why it matters
One point, or approximately 0.04 cm, was all it took for readers to find the recently redesigned Sunday Times a comfortable read again. After its redesign in April 2008, several readers complained that it was hard to read the paper’s … Continue reading
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What Type Of Newspaper Are You?
A day before ST’s latest redesign launch, the typeface for its masthead was changed from Popular (only shred of it left is in ‘THE’) to Big Caslon, said Peter Thomas Williams who was part of the redesign team. While Popular … Continue reading
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