3 February 2018
Episode 284
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One of the world’s foremost editorial designers talks us through a trio of his longest-running projects. Plus: our editor in chief tells us what he thinks the future of southern California’s pre-eminent legacy newspaper should be and we review a title offering a glimpse into the private spaces of the global creative class.
3 February 2018
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From titles such as ‘Zeit Magazin’, which set the bar for mainstream newsstand design, to laboratories of weird and wonderful experimentation such as the freesheet ‘Superpaper’, Mirko Borsche’s graphic-design work runs the gamut while retaining an unmistakable visual signature. He talks us through the latest issues of three of his longest-running projects.
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This week the ‘The Los Angeles Times’ got a new editor in chief. Jim Kirk, who’s taking over from Lewis D’Vorkin, faces a heady cocktail of challenges, including a trade-union campaign by staff, corporate difficulties and an organisational inability to retain good managers.
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