Posts Tagged “TODAY”

TODAY redesigns for the information age

by j u s t i n . z on August 20, 2012

Just 10 days after The Straits Times unveiled their redesign at the end of May, TODAY announced they had spent the last nine months undergoing a redesign led by internationally-acclaimed newspaper designers DaniloBlack. I recently caught up with TODAY’s night editor (…)

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Straits Times 2012 Redesign: More blue, less fuss

by j u s t i n . z on May 25, 2012

The Straits Times (ST) unveiled a new look last week, the second time it has redesigned within a period of just four years. The 167-year old paper overhauled its look back in 2008, but unlike the previous change where it (…)

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Shiok!

by j u s t i n . z on July 14, 2011

Wow. It’s so rare to see such a bold design from our newspapers here. It is so unexpected that at first, I thought I had picked up TODAY, a similar tabloid-sized newspaper that is usually bounded by an advertisement as (…)

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The reality of The Straits Times

by j u s t i n . z on May 13, 2010

Straits Times put on trial its latest “feature” today — seeing the world through tinted lenses (aka 3D glasses). The paper says this is one way it is trying to improve itself, by allowing its readers to get the news (…)

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A Design of Its Time — 2000s

by j u s t i n . z on April 3, 2010

Keeping up with the times – the changing look of Singapore’s longest surviving English newspaper The Straits Times. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — (…)

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