The team responsible for The Guardian redesign has been nominated for the Designer of the Year, a top British design award. It's the first time an editorial project has been nominated.

Alice Rawsthorn, chair of the jury and director of the Design Museum, which runs the prize, said: "The team behind the Guardian redesign set out to create a model modern newspaper — and they succeeded.

"Unlike some other newspaper format changes, this was not just a shrink-to-fit. Every aspect of the paper was revitalised and reinvented. This is an extraordinarily innovative and intelligent way of addressing the commercial challenges of the newspaper industry."

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Mark Porter, the Guardian's creative editor, said: "One of the reasons that it is incredibly gratifying to be nominated is that the jury has acknowledged how much of our work is about usability. The most important aspect of the project was making the newspaper easy and enjoyable to read."

He paid tribute to the enormous team effort that had contributed to the redesign, and said he was delighted the Guardian was on such an "interesting and wide-ranging shortlist — part of the point of the award is that it encourages people to realise that design fundamentally affects the world around us".