Scary and sad

From the Charles Apple blog; it appears as though Denver’s number two paper, the Rocky Mountain News, is closing its doors after nearly 150 years. I don’t think I need to say anything about the weight this event holds, because its exceedingly evident.
While I don’t live in Denver or anywhere near their circulation, I can say that they will be missed.

Below, I’ve attached a three part interview the Rocky Mountain News executive editor John Temple did with John Caldara. This interview was done pre-mortem, but basically explains the nuts and bolts of why the paper (might have) folded.

Filed under: Newspapers, State of the Industry

Obey!

Smashing magazine, a great online design magazine, has posted some tips about usability. Newspaper websites need to read this.

Filed under: Web Design

World’s Best

The Society for News Design has announced their annual newspaper design award-winners, and while the American newspapers took home the most awards, not a single U.S. paper took home world’s best (which probably just means the U.S. papers could afford to submit more pages).

That honor went to five foreign newspapers, once again showing the weakening status of American news design. Why we don’t even have one copy-cat of that rich european style here in the states makes me wonder.

Well, anyway, I’ll be doing a once-over of my thoughts on the winners in the coming days, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, check out this slideshow of the winners.

Filed under: Newspapers

Gridnik

One of my favorite modernist designers, Wim Crouwel, speaks about his recent exhibit and his past.

Filed under: Uncategorized