World's Best-Designed Newspapers:
Hartford Courant
1:40 AM, March 8, 2005
Very elegant. I love the use of typography in the Courant. When you have strong visuals, everything just falls into place. Really, really good job.
Oh, I absolutely love these pages. I agree, the visuals is what is the center to this, that and an amazingly excellent sense of good typography.
Simplicity speaks volumes. Again. Simplicity speaks volumes. Photography, documentary or conceptual, takes all. Illustrations are done full-throtle, meaning they become part of the page, not just someting on it. Is has a magazine feel in a newspaper format. Perhaps they've struck gold ...
What a wonderful paper. It gives me goosepimples just looking at it. I'm actually surprised that the judges called it "conservative." I think that the the use strong use of white space and the bold photography and great use of color is some of the most contemporary newspaper design I've seen. True, it's not all san-serif and multicolored, but I hardly think filling up the page with visual clutter is a "modern" idea. If this is conservative design then count me in!
It may be pretty, but I would contend that this front page won't do much for readers. The actual amount of information on this cover, of actual "news," is very slim, maybe 2-3 paragraphs worth. Readers are now used to having lots of information at their fingertips. As one of the (young) staffers at the paper I work at put it: "I want more STUFF on the page." He meant more stories, tidbits, photos, entry points, charts ... more. Young readers (the people we need to be wooing lest we disappear) want lots of things to look at and choose from.
Yes, the Courant is gorgeous, but does it succeed at giving people what they want?
Note: My comments were about the day-after-the-election cover.
"When you have strong visuals, everything just falls into place."
couldnt of said it better
Great pages! there will be more books about this...
Great pages! there will be more books about this...