To continue on the design push, I want to share a great link: The Book Cover Archive is a site dedicated to collecting and displaying the best designed book covers.

Books, magazines and newspapers are all different incarnations of the same medium, and I re-iterate my view that newspaper design can be treated more like magazine design, especially when it comes to the front page (and actually other key pages too).

This is where newspaper designers can take cue from book covers; very often, book covers are the only heavily design oriented portion of a book. And they are a central part of its sales-appeal, they are often the last message publishers can throw at potential customers in order to close a sale. The same could be said of newspapers.