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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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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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FOUND: A Short History of Newspaper Design

In this 1987 Asian Media Information and Communication paper that I found via Googling, Peter Ong, a former regional editor of the Society of Newspaper Design, provides a short history of newspaper design. A former editor in The Straits Times … Continue reading

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