Small typo:

“Broadsheet paper’s are a pain ..”

Should be

“Broadsheet papers are a pain ..”

Other than that, judging from the PDFs I think I like the new design. I’m not too sure about the typography though. I especially liked the old masthead. Can’t wait to get a chance to buy it here in Belgium.

Having spent my lunchhour reading the paper i can say that i quite like the almost ‘webby’ feel to the links between the various sections of the paper. There are good teasers in the main sheet for content in the sport, media and g2 sections.

G2 itself now feels a little too small. As the part of the paper i used to reach for first, i actually found the main sheet more engaging. Not sure why though.

The one thing that seems to bug me the most about the new design is the lack of whitespace gutter beneath the masthead. The headlines beneath the mast seem too squashed against it.

Love the format and layout, but, as you really let down by the masthead, for me its really diluted their identity and taken the shine off the grand unveiling of the redesign (I am a sporadic but loyal Guardain reader myself).

Very interested to see what happens with the new Neville Brody designed Guradian Unilimited next week, although I’m not hoping for much, as I wasnt a fan of his Macromedia treatment and cant help thinking he is employed on a reputation earned in a bygone (pre web) design era.

Couldnt agree more, although their site is loved by most readers I know, I find it terrible and a good IA team would surely whip it into shape.

I not sure of the online launch date, it was mentioned in the most recent Design Week alongside a quick story about the new typeface and doesn’t promise much, according to a Guardian spokeswoman

“In the short term the design of the network of websites will not change significantly”

...A new gif in the top left and a few new banners then.

PS - can i edit previous posts? I amazingly managed two alternative spellings of Guardian in my first post

City of sound has an interesting comment. Can’t post the link here for some reason but its on cityofsound dot com (today). The Flickr dissection of the front page on there is pretty neat too.

The first thing that struck me was the position of the barcode right at the very top centre of the front page.  It looks very out of place and is a massive waste of space that could have otherwise been used for something else.

Other than that, my initial thoughts are that I quite like the design, although I have yet to get passed the first couple of pages.

It struck me as heavily influenced by web design. The little navigation cues next to the numbers, the use of what I call ‘Dunstan Orange’ for some of the sub headings and the extra white space.

I agree, there is a pretty noticeable Web design-influence here; I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I just wonder if when they’re planning to relaunch their Web site, and how faithfully it will translate this new look.

Anyway, the fact that they made PDFs of apparently every page in the debut issue for this redesign is tremendous, in my opinion. I spent a lot of time poring over them, and they’re gorgeous.

Unfortunately, the international edition of the new Guardian is not in full color. Only the frontpage and the back side are colored, both G2 and the inside are b&w.
Although the re-design takes a bold step forward, I think the typography is too trendy. The Guardian Egyptian is on of those fonts you can see everywhere right now.
Not that I entirely dislike the G. Egyptian, but I’d appreciate to see it - especially concerning the masthead - interacting with a sans-serif.

The Guardian has failed. It has failed to better itself and has failed to recognise it was already years ahead despite being years old.
Why such a radical change? Well money, probably. Or maybe Porter and his creatives got a bit bored or something.
Don’t get me wrong; it’s not a bad design, but I’ve seen better, and I expected so much more from Porter. It looks like they picked some pretty fonts and got a student to have a go. It’s lost its balls.
It was so distinctive.
How many other newspapers can claim such an untouched and consistent design history? They only ever fine tuned it. And you want to know why they let it live such a long life? Because it worked, that’s why. It was a brilliant design. Their only competitors in the UK were at The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph and that was only in the past few years.
They couldn’t just change the size, could they? No. And they couldn’t just tweak it a little bit. No. And they couldn’t stop at a spring clean; a slight evolution, even. Heaven forbid.
Instead, do you know what they really did? They just killed off a design classic. And they should be ashamed of themselves. I bet SND will love it.

The change is good, but I doubt whether it was inevitable. It would have been nice, had it remained the same and reinvented itself. Yet, it is a treat to watch. rajaneesh. india