AAN News
Boston Phoenix to Unveil "Major Redesign" in Junenew
Boston Herald |
04-11-2005 2:30 pm |
Industry News
Deadline Looms for 2005 Athena Awardsnew
Newspaper Association of America |
03-08-2005 10:24 am |
Industry News
City Pages Launches Redesigned Web Site
02-22-2005 3:41 pm |
Press Releases
Good Design Gets Museum Show for Amsterdam Weekly
Amsterdam Weekly joins Brazilian flip-flops and biodegradable toilet paper rolls in an exhibition opening Dec. 3 at London's Design Museum.
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12-17-2004 5:06 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Design & Production
Broad Vision, Focused Effort Yield Chicago Reader's New Look
Predictability took a tumble at the Chicago Reader Sept. 17 when the paper adopted a fresh new design. Freelance writer Nora Ankrum tells the story behind the 33-year-old paper's transformation, accomplished through a collaboration between the paper's staff and Spanish design firm Jardí + Utensil. While some readers may miss the old Reader, advertisers say they like the way the new look captures readers' eyes.
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Nora Ankrum |
12-09-2004 12:50 pm |
Industry News
Post-Election Stranger Cover Becomes a Collector's Itemnew
Requests for the Nov. 11 edition of The Stranger are pouring into the Seattle alt-weekly's offices, largely from readers who found a degree of post-election solace in the issue's unorthodox cover, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The cover features text in a series of colored bars that reads "Do not despair," before reassuring readers that they're part of a "diverse, dynamic, and progressive … urban archipelago" that voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. "People really responded to it," says editor Dan Savage, who wrote the cover text. Incoming requests for the issue number around 500, and that's just the beginning. "People want T-shirts, people want posters," says Savage.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
11-30-2004 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Arkansas Times Web Site Gets a Makeover
10-14-2004 3:09 pm |
Press Releases
Dates for AAN West, East Announced
AAN Staff |
10-04-2004 6:00 pm |
Association News
Activists Call SF Weekly Cartoon Offensive, Want Apologynew
San Francisco Latino and Mission District activist groups want a public apology from freelance cartoonist Dan Siegler, reports the San Francisco Examiner. Siegler's "Puni" cartoon in the Sept. 15 edition of SF Weekly is a parody of Mayor Gavin Newsom's "Mission Possible" effort to take back the Mission District's "Miracle Mile." The phony message from the mayor asks, "Who exactly are we taking back the Mission from?" and encourages readers to select "the groups that you want removed from the Mission" from a list of 35. Among the choices are "pregnant tweenage Mexicans," "geriatric tamale sellers," and "white dot-com leftovers."
San Francisco Examiner |
09-28-2004 11:29 am |
Industry News
Redesign Gives Reader "A New Air of Vibrancy"new
Chicago Tribune media critic Steve Johnson weighs in on the Chicago Reader's recent redesign, writing, "Suddenly a publication that looked a little murky and, perhaps, vulnerable, has a new air of vibrancy." Next year, Time Out New York is scheduled to launch its Chicago edition, which will compete directly with the Reader by publishing comprehensive entertainment listings. Reader editor Alison True tells Johnson, however, that the redesign wasn't prompted by Time Out's imminent arrival. "A paper that takes 12 years to redesign doesn't make impulse decisions," she says. (Free registration required.)
Chicago Tribune |
09-27-2004 1:37 pm |
Industry News
Chicago Reader Gets a Faceliftnew
The Chicago Reader will hit stands on Thursday, Sept. 16, with a colorful front page and new layout, marking its first redesign in 12 years, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Rather than feature the text of the lead story, the new front page will read vertically and be highlighted by color photos and art above the fold. An advertisement will be below the fold. The paper's inner sections will also get front-page makeovers to prominently feature week-at-a-glance calendars and critics' picks. Editor Alison True tells reporter Eric Herman that the goal of the redesign was to put "a lot more information on the covers."
Chicago Sun-Times |
09-15-2004 4:01 pm |
Industry News
Recycled Paper Eases Alt-Weekly's Eco Impact
Kevin McKinney, editor and publisher of Indianapolis's NUVO, subscribes to the tenets of reduce, reuse and recycle. Such thinking led to the alt-weekly's recent move to print on paper with nearly 80 percent recycled content. "We had gotten all our process worked out, so now we could look at more environmentally friendly options," says production manager Mike Fox (pictured). A box of factoids on NUVO's table of contents page lists the resources saved annually by printing on this paper, 6,256 trees and 442,777 gallons of water among them. And, says McKinney, "there's no noticeable difference in photos or art and no change in cost."
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Amy Souza |
08-25-2004 12:55 pm |
Industry News
2004 AAN Convention Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
08-09-2004 5:32 pm |
Association News
First-Time Convention Goer Remembers the Alamonew
There comes a point in every party girl's life when she has to stop drinking and start getting serious. Fortunately for Maui Time Weekly's Samantha Campos, that point wasn't in San Antonio, at least not during AAN's annual convention. Mingling with editors, publishers and other journalistic riff-raff, she found that "they tend to let it all out after the free booze and appetizers kick in."
Maui Time Weekly |
08-04-2004 1:24 pm |
Industry News
San Diego CityBeat Celebrates its 100th Issue, Debuts New Design
07-14-2004 5:45 pm |
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