Polish architect turned designer Jacek Utko talks about how he revived the fortunes of a number of flagging east European newspapers by significantly altering their design and layout.
Are there lessons to be learned by western newspapers from his work?

Regulars visitors will have noticed a new look here, and in case you’re a regular and the site looks especially weird, please force reload your browser (scroll to the end of this page for directions if you need them) and all should be well.
Panoramic Vision
disassociated.com is now a super-wide 901 pixels across. This is mainly [...]

First there was Helvetica Monopoly, and now the game’s packaging has been redesigned!
Monopoly, in spite being the classiest of all board games, unfortunately is packaged just as boringly and uncreatively as every other garbage board game on the shelves. So, I decided to repackage it… turning the class up to 11.

From logos to… cars, 50 before and after redesign examples. Different, yet still much the same. And I wouldn’t mind one of the new Ford Fiestas either.
A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards [...]

Gridlasticness
Dan Cederholm unveils a fantastic new look SimpleBits, which features a complete rewrite of the style sheet. He also includes a few tips for other designers considering switching to a grid layout using ems.
Have plenty of coffee at hand.

I think I can understand that…
Also check out some photos of the equally new SimpleBits studio. I [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’d know by now that John Chow has redesigned his blog.
The redesign work was actually undertaken by Nate Whitehill, and the job probably represents a major promotional coup for his newly formed enterprise Unique Blog Designs, which creates and sells “exclusively designed” Wordpress blog [...]

Australia’s favourite newspaper (ok, I’m biased, I’ve written for them once or twice ;), the Sydney Morning Herald has just unveiled a brand new design!
Personally I like it, though not everyone shares my opinion!
One or two people feel the stylesheet they’ve used isn’t particularly, shall we say, original. I don’t know, 100 per cent original [...]

The Thinking Blog: Turkish blogger Ilker Yoldas, hailing from Ankara I believe (had my first cup of apple chai in Ankara!), has just unveiled her newly redesigned blog, complete with a brand new logo. Nice work :)
Terri Terri Quite Contrary: is the quite fantastic blog of, you guessed it, Terri. This is no niche, or [...]

The wordpressing (I love that word) of disassociated.com is under way! It’ll be a while before anything happens though as I am trying to convert four years of static HTML file blog entries into a format I can upload to a Wordpress database.
It’s not all cut and paste work. Some formatting still needs to be [...]

Oooohhh, it’s very close to the witching hour now, hey KIDS?
Anyway a few quick Developer’s notes, of sorts. Sorry to those using Opera to browse this site – it looks rather SHITE (certainly in Opera 9.02 for Windows, the version I have). I’m not sure why as yet. The XHTML & CSS code validates, and [...]