NYT LeBron sports front

Linked below is the front page of today's New York Times sports section.

You may think it's artistic or a slap in the face to every shrinking news hole in America. Whatever the case, I thought it was worthy of a thread (even if probably 70 percent of the page designers here no longer work in newspapers ).

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/7/11/5892653/new-york-times-goes-minimalist-to-report-lebron-james-signing-cavaliers

 

I think that's a great design if the goal is to stroke the designers' ego and say, "Look how edgy we are and what we can do!"

It's a horrible design if the goal is to serve the readers and present the news.

Plus, I think it's too soon after their similar HOF blank page when no one was elected a couple of years back. Can't go to that well this quickly again ...

 

Completely agree with this.

It already pisses me off that the sports section of my local paper has dwindled down to absolutely nothing. If my paper arrives with this as the sports front, I'm going to seriously ask myself why I'm paying for this.

 

Design for your readers.
Do not design for other designers.

 

lame

 

LeBron James had not signed with the Cavaliers when this design was put together.

 

I got douche chills looking at that.

It's the newspaper equivalent of a Hollywood sequel whose success is entirely predicated on going to the well once too often.

 

The Yankees and the Mets played last night and the biggest soccer match for the next four years is played tomorrow. Your best NBA player is about to leave, and you are wasting newsprint with a snide little joke on the front.

It's cute, but it would have been just as effective to run that as a tease up top.

 

Wait a cotton-pickin' second ...

... Shaun Livingston signed with the Warriors?

 

LeBron James still has not "signed", so the type on the cover was simply wrong. Correction-worthy wrong, IMO.

That being said, the "agreement" most certainly DID make the AP Transactions list.