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Vinh Named NYTimes.com Design Director

11:20 PM, December 29, 2005

I don't talk much here about online newspaper design, something that may change a bit in the coming year. To that end, I'll note that The New York Times has made, in my estimation, a smart move today by hiring Khoi Vinh as the new design director of nytimes.com. Vinh's NYC web design shop, Behavior, has done fine work for the Smithsonian, HBO, MoMA and, most notably, the recent redesign of The Onion.

He wrote today:

For me, as a provider of design consulting to clients on a limited basis, the difficult part of this work has been affecting change on the workflows, finding the opportunity to integrate the design solutions I’ve produced fully enough that the expressions are as aesthetically pleasing as the platforms. In short, I’ve been able to design, but I haven’t been able to art direct, and that’s one of the things that I hope I get the opportunity to tackle during my tenure at the Times.

It’s just one of the things on my list, though… I have grand visions of what can be done as the Design Director of The New York Times Online, but I also have a pragmatic view of what needs to be done in order to realize those visions: to make design work, especially in this position, will require dedicated labor, genuine diplomacy, judicious management and earning the respect of peers and colleagues.

And, in a comment on his site in October, about the time he began talking to the Times, he said:

So much of the innovation that goes into online design is invested in developing the platform itself, and probably not enough is invested into sustaining the platform with continued innovation in the presentation of content.

That kind of visual inventiveness is one of the reasons that Salon met with so much early praise for its design sensibility; they really did try and make the site feel appreciably different with each new feature story.

Which leads me to say that one thing I'd like to see on The Times is a lot more illustration. There's not enough of it on the Web to begin with, and using more of it at The Times would have a nice ripple effect, I think.

Along with Adrian Holovaty at washingtonpost.com and Rob Curley at BonitaNews.com, Vinh's work at the Times will certainly be something to keep an eye on in 2006.

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