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• Grant Glas commented on The Newsweek Redesign: Hit or Miss?
  I would agree to the point we have to hear from Number 17. Quite frankly I am surprised that there has been no defense of their work yet... Luke Hayman at Pentagram has been setting the bar for redesigns/evolutions. He just completed a redesign of "Tennis" magazine. http://pentagram.com/en/new/2009/06/new-work-tennis-1.php#more ... notice the explanation... Time for Number 17 to take a hint....
• Anjan Das commented on The Newsweek Redesign: Hit or Miss?
  i like the masthead better than the previous one, but not to sure bout the cover lines style, its too disturbing with the cover potraits, i guess atleast the cover lines could have been a little clean & had a little order....
• Mariluz Holmes commented on The Newsweek Redesign: Hit or Miss?
  Since Newsweek's new content structure was launched, I have stopped buying the magazine. Mariluz Holmes...
• Grant Glas commented on The Newsweek Redesign: Hit or Miss?
  "Readers, editors and designers all know that design cannot save a magazine from failure. But they also know that an ingredient of its success will be its design: the design that touches off the intangible feeling of rightness, of identification in the reader browsing at the bookstall. But even then the designer should not expect that much credit. The tendency is to give the editor a raise if a magazine with a new design is a success, and to fire the art director if it fails." - David Hillman Food for thought...
• david ross commented on The Newsweek Redesign: Hit or Miss?
  Ugh. It looks even worse in real life. And the inside pages are purposefully undesigned; Top photo, headline and 2 column text box. Ecomist, you have so much to answer for!...