NEXT STOP: GRAND RAPIDS

9:49 PM, November 8, 2004

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Redesign No. 2 of the day is the Grand Rapids Press, as Kris Kinkade reports at VisualEditors.com. It's a Garcia Media job. (Your first clue: The "Your world in 3 minutes" page. I guess they read two minutes faster in Michigan than Miami.)

There's an online guide to the redesign here.

Also, there's this TV news story about the redesign.

If the front page of the new Press looks like a Web site, that's no accident. Officials with the Grand Rapids Press turned to international newspaper designer Mario Garcia, who wanted to create something up to date but traditional enough to appeal a midwest community.

And like most papers he redesigned, Garcia knows the reaction will be strong.

"Normally in about three weeks, they begin to get used to it, and if you ask them a year from now, they will have no recollection whatsoever of the paper that they're crying about today," he said.

The type: Lotsa Gotham and Gotham Condensed for headlines, cutlines, graphics, etc. and PoynterOS Text for text. Also, I believe this to be Chronicle, a Hoefler/Frere-Jones face mentioned here, but I can't find any images of it online anywhere.

>Mario-led redesign of the Grand Rapids Press [VisualEditors.com]
>The Press gets a new look [The Grand Rapids Press]
>A new look for the Grand Rapids Press [WOOD-TV]


Comments
Heads up: After you hit "post" things may be slow and you may get an error. Most likely, your comment did post. Apologies. I'm looking for a fix.

I'm not sure if there is anything there that would make me think of a Web site. But maybe I need to see more.

Posted by: Vince Tuss at November 9, 2004 10:05 AM

Garcia is on a Gotham kick. They used the same font in Portland, Maine.

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