Designs & Formats

Two weeks ago, I assessed the readability of the electronic editions of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times in this "Press Box" column. If you're joining the discussion late, electronic editions differ from standard Web renditions of newspapers: Rather than throwing up individual stories from a long list of headlines, they impose the complete look and feel of a print...

The trouble with the future is that it never arrives–or by the time it does, we fail to recognize it as such. The Internet is one such creature of the future that now fails to impress. Had you told me 15 years ago that by 2004 I could retrieve any one of 13 billion pages of free content–newspapers, all the great books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, catalogs, weather reports, political writings...

A group of eight Indian newspapers are participating in an 18-month project aimed at creating common printing standards among them. Ifra, the worldwide publishers’ association, is conducting the project. The goal is to help the newspapers in India improve their color quality while harmonizing their printing profiles, which are what the page designers use to tell the printers what to print. The...

A color management seminar is scheduled for September 16 in Bangalore, India, a day before the main conference of Ifra India 2003. Ifra, an international association for media publishing, has scheduled its 11th annual conference, Infra India 2003, on September 17 to 18 in Bangalore. The pre-conference seminar on Color Management Systems is aimed at providing a comprehensive view of the current...

With a circulation of 16.5 lakh copies (according to ABC for the period of January to June 2002) and a readership of 1.3 crore as indicated by the latest round of the Indian Readership Survey, Dainik Bhaskar seems to be a comfortable leader. But resting on its laurels is not a trait one can associate with the Hindi daily that recently forayed into the eight state, namely Maharashtra, adding one...

Business Standard has finally fallen in line with national and international norms in terms of size. After months of holding on to its original height of 56 cm and width of 38 cm per page (full area), Business Standard, the flagship brand from the company with the same name, will reduce its size. Starting today (Monday, October 28, 2002), it will be slimmer with its width at 35 cm (height remains...

Chances are you won't bother to read this article. It is just one long block of text, after all, unbroken by alluring pictures, snappy captions, or eye-grabbing infographics. You can't click it. You can't flip it. All you can do is read it. And reading a full magazine article – as opposed to scanning, perusing, surfing – is so twentieth century, so retirement home, so William Shawn. Hal Espen, the...