The new Business Week
April 23rd, 2010
For those who haven’t been following the New York media gossip, Bloomberg Business Week has just been redesigned by Richard Turley, former art director of the Guardian’s G2 section. The redesign hits the streets today, and Richard sent over some PDFs last night.
The use of Christian Schwartz’s Haas Helvetica gives it a pleasingly retro feel, but it has a sharp contemporary edge too. In places, the Helvetica and the use of space makes parts of it feel curiously like an old Guardian section from the Simon Esterson days, but it definitely has its own energy, and knowing him as I do, I can see Richard’s personality all over it
I won’t say more because it’s the work of people I’m pretty close to (Richard was assisted by Mark Leeds, another Guardian alumnus), so I can’t be too critical or too glowing! But congratulations to Richard on getting the assignment (in competition with some big Manhattan names I gather) and carrying it off with such aplomb. I really look forward to watching the issues week by week.
(By the way, the cover below was pre-cooked for the launch issue and then dropped in the time-honoured manner 5 hours before publication. But after 4 years of doing G2 every day, if anyone is used to that kind of pressure, it’s Richard.)
Comment by Fredrik Jönsson — April 23, 2010 @ 10:45 am
Hi, first thing I notice is that the headings are pushed up very close to the ruler or image, leaving lots of white space below – just like in the Guardian. I’d be interested in hearing about the rational behind this.
It feels like a trait of the Guardian really, and I wonder if its re-use here means there are reasons related to legibility or hierachy. Or is it more a (modernistic) stylistic issue related to choice of typeface and the strong use of horizontal rulers?
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