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Where are all of the truly great Sunday, front page designs in the U.S. these days?

As I do my daily run through the Newseum?s collection of front pages, Sunday looks a lot like Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

?Papers… Read more

Smashing Magazine | Gizmodo | How Interactive Design
The Internet fell in love with giant infographics for a while, but now a backlash is building. Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo pleads with us all to “Stop Already With [Freaking] Infographics“:… Read more

Letters on a computer screen were two-dimensional blips and characters that rolled along as you typed them in before Steve Jobs and his team created the windows interface.

Jobs gave visual depth to things.

He put drop shadows between elements… Read more

The Huffington Post hit a nerve in the professional design community when the website announced a contest to design its new Politics icon.

“To ask designers to work for nothing suggests that design has no value,” said Richard Grefé… Read more

Taking cues from readers in a recent poll, The Hartford Courant has opted to return to a traditional, horizontal nameplate on their front page. The oldest… Read more

Around Poynter, we often say that when it comes to using color, gray can be a designer’s best friend. A neutral, balanced gray is an important tool in your larger color palette, because it can support the natural color that… Read more

A usability expert like Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini spends time thinking about making things, well, easy to use.

How many buttons do you have to push to start your microwave oven, for example?

Or how much time do keyboard shortcuts… Read more

Jennifer George-Palilonis wants to help Ball State graphics students hit the ground running. She directs journalism graphics — one of four main sequences in the school’s newly… Read more

There are two important additions to the Society for News Design Web site.

Tools for News is an online database for journalists who want to learn as much as they can about tools, new developments and tips for working online,… Read more

Merrill Perlman has doubts. So, she looks things up, does the math, figures things out, finds the focus.

After spending 25 years at The New York Times, working on and directing the copy desks, she has developed… Read more