Interesting post on the NYT mag redesign…
December 16th, 2009
…over at the SPD blog. Its always amazing, and slightly scary, to see the resources that go into high-end American magazines. To British eyes its undoubtedly impressive, but I often get the feeling that the effort and manpower expended is out of proprtion to the results. In this case the ideas, the commissioning and some of the spreads are fantastic. But I cant say I think the new design is an improvement on the old one, and the format is definitely worse.
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[...] Mark Porter » Blog Archive » Interesting post on the NYT mag redesign…"Its always amazing, and slightly scary, to see the resources that go into high-end American magazines. To British eyes its undoubtedly impressive, but I often get the feeling that the effort and manpower expended is out of proprtion to the results. In this case the ideas, the commissioning and some of the spreads are fantastic. But I cant say I think the new design is an improvement on the old one, and the format is definitely worse." (nytimes magazines design ) [...]
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