Mark Porter

So this morning The Independent was the latest UK paper to launch a redesign. Well, sort of.

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Dramatic front page from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung today. Its not the idea or execution that caught my attention (I find it very slow for a daily paper and not that clever) but the fact that they’d give so much space to a conceptual image on the front page — this from the paper which until the last redesign never ran pictures on the front (with the exception of September 12th 2001). In Frankfurt this is a seismic shift! (Thanks to  JH for the tip & photo)

A new Wall Street Journal site launched today. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing to do with editorial design, but just had to mention an amazing viewing this morning of the Hadrian exhibition at the British Museum. Read the rest of this entry »

When I first crossed the great divide from print to web, one of the earliest things I tried to do was introduce a flexible multi-column grid (you know, like a magazine). We tried various options, but in the end the most successful was the classic 12-column which has graced so many great magazines from Twen (above) to, well, Guardian Weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Plagiarism is so much easier in the digital world — if someone wants to steal your design they dont even have to bother recreating it as they do in print, they can just take your code. Guardian.co.uk has its imitators, but this find only takes a gif (and a name) from us. The rest comes from a different source

Luke Hayman, — who most people I know regard as one of the greatest magazine designers in the business — has launched his first (I think) newspaper, an English-language daily in the UAE. Interesting stuff, especially the magazine section.
Update: I’ve just seen on the Pentagram blog that this project was not a solo Hayman effort, but a double act with Paula Scher