Posts Tagged “My Paper”
my paper’s redesign: a failure of the bilingual policy
by j u s t i n . z on November 26, 2009
The latest redesign of my paper mirrors the failure of Singapore’s billingual policy
Interpreting Typefaces of Singapore’s Newspaper Nameplates
by j u s t i n . z on March 8, 2009
A few posts ago, I introduced the typefaces of Singapore’s English newspaper nameplates and who else uses them. This time, I’ll interpret them and see if they might mean anything at all! Barnhurst’s Seeing The Newspaper is a great book on visual (…)
Typefaces of Singapore Newspaper Nameplates
by j u s t i n . z on February 25, 2009
Here’s a list of the nameplates of Singapore’s english newspapers and what typefaces they use. I’ve also included popular contemporary references that also use the same typeface, maybe the choice of usage says something about the paper? Typeface: Big Caslon (…)
Redesigning newspapers and why it matters
by j u s t i n . z on February 14, 2009
One point, or approximately 0.04 cm, was all it took for readers to find the recently redesigned Sunday Times a comfortable read again. After its redesign in April 2008,several readers complained that it was hard to read the paper’s body copy (…)
What type of newspaper are you?
by j u s t i n . z on February 9, 2009
A day before ST’s latest redesign launch, the typeface for its masthead was changed from Popular (only shred of it left is in ‘THE’) to Big Caslon, said Peter Thomas Williams who was part of the redesign team. While Popular failed to (…)
