Lucie Lacava, legend for her 1993 redesign of the two-color Le Devoir (24 on the list of "25 Most Influential Moments in News Design"), has contracted to consult with The Baltimore Sun on its redesign, Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, AME/Design & Graphics announced today.

Some of her award-winning designs in the U.S. include the Kansas City Star, Chicago Tribune, The Hill (covering Capitol Hill) and Investor's Business Daily. Internationally, she has created high-impact designs for The National Post, Le Devoir, La Presse and Toronto Star in Canada, El Espectador in Colombia, El Pais in Spain, and the Leicester Mercury in the United Kingdom. Since her firm opened in 1992, her newspapers have been awarded "World's Best Design" 10 times by the Society for News Design, and she has won more than 100 national and international awards.

In a book published just this spring, "Contemporary Newspaper Design," Lacava was touted as one of a few newspaper architects who are leading a new wave of newspaper design, and who "are transforming newspapers with elegant, custom typefaces and a variety of presentation techniques."

It's a once-in-a-decade opportunity for The Sun to revitalize and enrich its personality without sacrificing its identity, its sophistication or its credibility, and to continue its legacy as one of the great American newspapers.

The redesign launch is aimed for fall of 2005.

>Baltimore Sun, Lacava to team on redesign [VisualEditors.com]