Mark Porter

The last two big sections of guardian.co.uk have been updated — culture and life & style went on to the new platform last night, and I’m starting to feel like a marathon runner who can see the tape after 26 miles.

It’s a strange feeling to see these new sites going up, as they’re based on design decisions we made over two years ago. But now that the end of the massive migration project is almost here, it’s finally to start thinking about making it all better, hooray!

…dedicated to the work of our comment page illustrators and cartoonists, coming on at the Guardian’s newsroom gallery in London, from June 24th

The results of the Russian competition I judged are now up here, but don’t bother if you don’t speak Russian. No pictures of the papers (just far too many of the judges) but I’ll try to get some from the organisers. In brief, the big winners were Vedomosti, Moscow; Delovoy Petersburg, St. Petersburg ; Hronica, St. Petersburg; Akzia, Moscow; Moy Rayon, Moscow; and Nasha Vologda, Vologda

I was one of two foreign judges at the Russian Newspaper Design Competition in Moscow at the weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Lots of great stuff on the founding and glory days of New York magazine in the current issue, a tribute after the death last week of original proprietor and editor Clay Felker. You can read it all on the website, and there’s a gallery of classic Felker/Glaser covers too

The Sunday Times in the UK has redesigned. I’ve written a quick blog post on it for mediaguardian here.

… has a great new blog here. Only one (long) post so far but I hope the first of many