Kompas, the largest daily in Indonesia (500,000 daily, 620,000 weekends), redesigned last week (new front page above right). They narrowed the page, restructured the content with emphasis on color and news for younger readers, introduced a separate classified section (the first in Indonesia) and implemented computer-to-plate technology.

This was another Garcia Media gig and was turned around in five months. Mario Garcia was "chief architect" of the project with Jan Kny as art director. At Kompas, the staff included Lukas Widjaja, project director; Hardanto Subagyo, technology; Taufik Hidayat, deputy managing editor and Lim Bun Chai, deputy production manager.

"We started with what I would describe as an elegant and classic look, given to the newspaper by Roger Black, who had redesigned it a few years ago," Garcia said. "Our task was to introduce more modern methods of navigation, create a new color palette and concentrate on new typographic fonts. We also helped with improving the quality and frequency of use of informational graphics."

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