The Telegraph-Journal of Saint John, New Brunswick, launches a redesign today. Lucie Lacava consulted on the project.

Publisher James C. Irving said:

“The Telegraph-Journal is one of the most important papers in the Maritimes, and what Lucie has done is given it a design that reflects the importance and the stature of the paper.”

Lacava said the Telegraph-Journal’s previous understated design simplified her task.

“It gave us a good starting point,” she said. “The design was very old school and that of a small-town newspaper. My mandate, and what I wanted the design to do, was give it a more worldy look and make it look more like a big-city paper.”

On the typography front, the redesign uses Font Bureau’s Whitman Display for headlines and display, Font Bureau’s Vonnes (also used in last fall's Reforma Group redesign) for navigation and graphics and Porchez Typofonderie’s Le Monde Journal for body text.

They also published an eight-page special section section (PDF) on the redesign.

(Thanks, Adam!)