Each one of these covers is designed around elaborate, vertical illustrations, which conveniently work better with the wide rail on the left. It will be interesting to see how the pages work with horizontal photos, which includes about 99 percent of all business photographs. Is there a horizontal version of the rail available or, perhaps, something thinner? Otherwise, a horizontal photo likely will get swallowed up.

The vertical structure is intentional. The new Your Money section has a dedicated illustrator whose purpose is to pursue conceptual/graphic solutions - precisely because business photography is something we really struggle with here. The rail does get a half-column narrower in next month's redesign, which gives us the flexibility to go horizontal - in the rare case we'd want to.

Very cool to have a dedicated illustrator. The pages look great with the vertical stuff. Good luck!

Thanx...we'll need it!

Wow. The presentation changes are great, as are the new section flags.

I love the new flag, the rail and the illustrations. There is great contrast and layering in the rail. It's just the right balance. I wish I could read the content in the bullets, but it is too fuzzy on my screen.

Are you sure you don't need two dedicated illustrators? What about on their days off or vacations? It's a huge commitment, and it pays off on these pages.

I would read these cover pages every day. I would read the inside pages if the story interested me.

On the Your Money prototype closest to me, how come there are stocks on the upper right corner as well as on the rail?

Because it's a prototype, in which we put the daily flag on the Sunday product for sizing purposes. The new Your Money flag will use that shelf for the kind of graphic presentation that now anchors the bottom corner of the rail.

Those illustrations are killer - beats most biz photos I've seen, hands down. But those insides are what I like: nice number crunching, slim columinists with a different target in mind (retirees, younger investers, etc.), and useful local stuff for people looking to save a buck or help out someone with a similar problem. Slick content that make this way more than just pretty-ing things up. I'm in love.

Couple questions, tho: So, graphs on the shelf? Is there enough room there? What happen to the jump space? And are those subway arrows a little, er, big? And black? I keep looking there first. Or is it to draw attention to the cp head, since they seem to line up in the three protos... ?

Thanks for the feedback, Matt. We've spent the last year focusing on content, which is why the type changes will come last. As with the Your Money launch, everything, from the columnists to the agate has been examined. Next month the rail in this section gets narrower, and the arrows get smaller (they're the same arrows used for navigation in the Orlando airport) Stay tuned, we'll be able to release examples of the actual working new paper within the next few weeks.