The Indy has a great sit down with the maverick editor of the The Sunday Times who wrote the book on newspaper design 35 ears ago - Sir Harold Evans.
An excerpt:
Harold Evans: ‘These grand designs must have stories to back them up’
“Here’s a thing about innovation,” says Evans sagely. “Nobody has ever predicted the next innovation.” In one respect though he did clearly lay claim to having seen the future: that design would have to take the lead. “Newspaper design cannot go on being so insular if the newspaper is to fulfil its role,” he wrote in Editing and Design.
Evans was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981 and first published his five-volume tome Editing and Design in 1973. He was knighted for services to journalism in 2004.
In the interview he talks powerfully about the impact and value of visual journalism.
He also critiques The New York Times design at length and finds it greatly lacking, adding “The New York Times desperately needs to rethink its whole design.”
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