Wow! I'm really impressed. Finally we see a real redesign with a modern take on how to present the news in the United States. I really like how easy it is to browse through the paper and enjoy seeing the clearly labeled content and slick design. It looks like a joy to read. Excellent use of color to assist in navigation.

You right! just, I like it! and the people love it already! if somebody don't like is right too, but, remember, we work for the readers no for a person! and maybe some designer, just this is something that some designers have forgotten.

Without stating an opinion, what's the thinking behind the rail on the local front? Is it movable? does it always reside in the fourth column? Can it be shorter and wider? Are there similar pieces on other fronts?

When I initially saw it, I thought it was a means for them to get away with not having any vertical rules (save for the breakout/infobox rules you see on the Sports and Local pages).

But overall, it's bold and ambitious, and I like it in general. My folks are subsribers and are currently on vacation. They'll have quite a surprise waiting for them when they get back.

Then again, I am all for anyone who takes the time to add a quotation mark into the drop cap with the first letter, having seen it omitted numerous times for whatever reason.

Nicole, that rail is very mobile, as you'll see this week. And it is a part of the design for most sections, although Local is the only one that is using it most of the time.

It's fantastic. I have a more complete review on my blog, but I can say that to hold it in your hands, it's a wonderful effort; the more I look at it, the more I think it stands up as one of the better designed papers on the planet. There isn't an element that seems out of place or superfluous. And that might be the best compliment that can be given for news design.

In addition to the design, check out the "Top 10 Changes" to see what content has been added: double the amount of letters to the editor, a "watchdog" column, "tribute" obits and later deadlines for features and business sections.

No matter how pretty it is, readers like to see themselves in the paper. And the more interactivity is added, the more relevant/popular it will become.

Also, the newspaper already is in the streets, the publishers don't see details they wait for results, and they already have them. Good content, attractive and very well distributed, and the rest whom it matters, we see the beauty and practicidad, the publishers see the rest.
The more important by the end is the people and advertisers like it for sure.

I have to say, yesterday's Star has to be the best newspaper ever published on a slow news Monday. Section A had about 36 pages if I recall.

The pictures and the color ads looked incredible. The new press has rendered every other press in the city obsolete overnight. The color was that good.

Fabulous! Just fabulous!

Wow, very bold and colorful, and if readers like it all the better. One question is with all that color making changes when you need to get a late score in the mast area of the sports section or a typo out of the brief rail on the metro cover means a lot of replating work for the press folks. Do you have limits on how many color changes you can have?

Phil: Yeah, we do. We're still figuring out the process. But we have more capacity and more ability to switch quickly. We're trying to keep things we know are late out of the color. But it's not always an easy process.

I think I have a new favorite American newspaper. I wonder how many designers are showing this off to their top editors right now as a marvelous example of what a 2006 newspaper should look like. Just spectacular all around. Kudos to everyone in K.C.!

WOW! Roger Miller would be proud. ("Kansas City Star/that's what I are/yodel-eedelay-hee/you oughta see my car...")

Just two months ago while in Kansas City, I lamented to a colleague that the K.C. Star — a very fine newspaper — suffered from an outdated, now-clunky look. But look at you now! With recent redesigns in St. Louis and now in K.C., Missouri has two metro dailies that are raising the bar for intelligent, engaging design (that reflect the renaissance of their respective downtowns) and solid journalism (long-time staples of each). Congratulations.