Monday, May 16, 2011

A relief for tired arms

The Saturday Times has had a redesign. The old broadsheet Saturday Review has been combined with the listings magazine in a tabloid – sorry, compact – format.

Hurray. The broadsheet gave the editor & designers lots of scope for spectacular layouts combining pictures & text, but it was too much for an old lady.

Perhaps it was just a plot with the makers & sellers of varifocal lenses, but it was impossible to read whole, & difficult to fold into a handy format because of the way the text was distributed over the page. It made my arms ache trying to hold it at the correct focal distance.