Comments on: My baby’s 1,000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/03/my-babys-1000/ by Jeff Jarvis Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: EssPee http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/03/my-babys-1000/#comment-378561 EssPee Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:12:49 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3712#comment-378561 I'm not at all a fan of the new design, which seems dumbed down to an extraordinary degree. EW has long been the magazine for staying on top of pop culture no matter what your age or base of knowledge, and I rarely failed to learn something from every issue. But the graphic- and whitespace-happy redesign, which blows up the pictures even bigger, increases the font size, eliminates many features and shrinks the amount of text everywhere you look, isn't that magazine. I know redesigns are often works in progress, but this one's gone in a discouraging direction so. It looks like someone at Time Inc. decided they needed to pitch relentlessly for the tween demographic, leaving the rest of us at the side of the road. Anyway, I'd be interested in your thoughts. Our redesign issue just arrived yesterday. I’m not at all a fan of the new design, which seems dumbed down to an extraordinary degree. EW has long been the magazine for staying on top of pop culture no matter what your age or base of knowledge, and I rarely failed to learn something from every issue.

But the graphic- and whitespace-happy redesign, which blows up the pictures even bigger, increases the font size, eliminates many features and shrinks the amount of text everywhere you look, isn’t that magazine. I know redesigns are often works in progress, but this one’s gone in a discouraging direction so. It looks like someone at Time Inc. decided they needed to pitch relentlessly for the tween demographic, leaving the rest of us at the side of the road.

Anyway, I’d be interested in your thoughts. Our redesign issue just arrived yesterday.

]]> By: Will http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/03/my-babys-1000/#comment-378445 Will Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:36:24 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3712#comment-378445 Congrats! I read this blog for a while and didn't realize you created EW; it was only after reading an interview with you that I learned that. EW's great. Congrats! I read this blog for a while and didn’t realize you created EW; it was only after reading an interview with you that I learned that. EW’s great.

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