Comments on: New London freesheet http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537 Magazine design, magazine news Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:39:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dave B http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537&cpage=1#comment-83694 Dave B Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:39:00 +0000 http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537#comment-83694 Oh dear. There really are people who think that newspaper design doesn't really matter to readers and is something only journalists notice, but this proves that theory wrong. Pages have to be attractive or they just look like ad sheets, and that's what this paper looks like. I presume they've got sixth form students designing it. No-one appears to be proofing it either! Oh dear. There really are people who think that newspaper design doesn’t really matter to readers and is something only journalists notice, but this proves that theory wrong. Pages have to be attractive or they just look like ad sheets, and that’s what this paper looks like. I presume they’ve got sixth form students designing it. No-one appears to be proofing it either!

]]> By: Daniel Bower http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537&cpage=1#comment-83686 Daniel Bower Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:21:19 +0000 http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537#comment-83686 I've not seen the mag yet, but after seeing <a href="http://thelondonweekly.co.uk/" rel="nofollow"> the website</a> yesterday I didn't have particularly high hopes. The padding around images, the carousel at the top, the awful ad integration. How is anyone supposed to take this seriously? I’ve not seen the mag yet, but after seeing the website yesterday I didn’t have particularly high hopes.

The padding around images, the carousel at the top, the awful ad integration. How is anyone supposed to take this seriously?

]]> By: Woz http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537&cpage=1#comment-83682 Woz Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:46:22 +0000 http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537#comment-83682 > "hyphenation on words of six letters"... oooooooooo! call the cops! > “hyphenation on words of six letters”… oooooooooo! call the cops!

]]> By: mat http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537&cpage=1#comment-83677 mat Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:59:04 +0000 http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537#comment-83677 Maybe it's been outsourced like a call center? Has to be an excellent hoax. Maybe it’s been outsourced like a call center?
Has to be an excellent hoax.

]]> By: simonkirrane http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537&cpage=1#comment-83676 simonkirrane Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:41:07 +0000 http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537#comment-83676 Laughably bad, like a brilliant parody of a terrible, terrible newspaper. Plus there are widows everywhere, hyphenation on words of six letters, standfirsts that go on for days. I just read of "the first throws [sic] of passion"... Check out this header: Ten Romantic Getwaways For February. The Winter Blues or this: Drivers Scarily Complacent About Dangerous Vehicles Says Brake and Direct line What does any of that mean? Has this been badly translated? Laughably bad, like a brilliant parody of a terrible, terrible newspaper. Plus there are widows everywhere, hyphenation on words of six letters, standfirsts that go on for days. I just read of “the first throws [sic] of passion”…

Check out this header:

Ten Romantic
Getwaways For February.
The Winter Blues

or this:

Drivers Scarily Complacent About Dangerous Vehicles Says Brake and Direct line

What does any of that mean? Has this been badly translated?

]]> By: Alan Formby-Jackson » Blog Archive » The London Weekly launches… and it looks grim http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537&cpage=1#comment-83675 Alan Formby-Jackson » Blog Archive » The London Weekly launches… and it looks grim Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:45:13 +0000 http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537#comment-83675 [...] can see more over at The Guardian here and at the magCulture blog here if you can bear [...] [...] can see more over at The Guardian here and at the magCulture blog here if you can bear [...]

]]> By: mat http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537&cpage=1#comment-83674 mat Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:10:25 +0000 http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5537#comment-83674 It looks shockingly bad. In fact it would be hard to make it look worse. You would think that a small part of the £5.5m launch budget would have gone towards making their product look professional. I would be upset if my fish and chips were wrapped in it. It looks shockingly bad.
In fact it would be hard to make it look worse. You would think that a small part of the £5.5m launch budget would have gone towards making their product look professional.
I would be upset if my fish and chips were wrapped in it.

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