The other big redesign this weekend was the Orlando Sentinel, which launched Sunday. AME/Visuals Bo Burton kindly sent along some before-and-afters.

Robb Montgomery did a video podcast from the scene with Bo, Stephen Komives and Cassie Armstrong (audio version here). There's also an online guide to the changes.

So here are some pages (new on the right) with some comments by Bo in italics.

Now that we have the speed read on the cover, there's no need for a 3/4 page index inside (it was called "Quick Read." Quick, yeah, right.) So A2 is now the "news lite" page in the paper, balancing out the heavier World & Nation report it faces.

This is my favorite thing about the entire redesign, because its a true new product. Sunday nights are dreadful for local designers (and reporters) because not much live news happens. You end up with lots of feature stories and festival coverage. So we decided that would be a day we throw everything we have at the most complex local story: How growth is changing the region. Crowded roads, crowded schools, disappearing environments, etc. We have a team of visual journalists dedicated to this section, which is planned about 6-8 weeks out.

(Some background on the business redesign here.)

All of our features sections have been completely revamped. While we still have A&E coverage inside every day, the fronts are focused now on specific themes and designed as a magazine in a broadsheet format every day. We also rolled the previously free-standing Sunday Travel section and Wednesday Food section into Good Living on those days.