TED: Can Design Save Newspapers?
Recently I attended a panel discussion between journalists and bloggers about the future or lack thereof for newspapers. The journalists calling the bloggers politically irrelevant and egocentric, with the bloggers retorting back at the journalists that they are stuck in the past and unavailable for their audience. And so on and so on… Even though it was quite interesting - there was obviously no easy answer or solution for this.. Or is there?
Watch this wonderful video on TED from Jacek Utko, a Polish designer, who did not only redesign a newspaper - but thereby significantly raised the circulation of these newspapers. What struck me here was that the correlation between Design and economic success is quite obvious. He found a niche where he could make a difference with good communication design and went for it. Designers rule dude!
via Swiss-miss
