Former Rocky Mountain News ASE Steve Foster is hard at work helping his coworkers start web sites. Using some WordPress themes, Foster, a designer for most of his career, is helping with: Cartoonist Drew Litton's site Inside the Rockies blog and his own blog, America's Fish. He admits he'...

Considering the economic climate, it's hardly surprising that the Boston Globe is shuttering its sports weekly, OT, which launched last fall. The weekly, which had a print run of 13,500 copies, launched Sept. 25 and provided coverage of Boston’s professional sports teams that went beyond the d...

Ten papers won the Triple Crown in the APSE sports section contest for 2008, earning national Top 10 placings in daily, Sunday and special sections. Best I can tell, that's the most Triple Crowns in the past five years and I suspect it's the most in a long time. The Boston Globe The Washingt...

Online, the St. Pete Times was headlining it "the Greatest Super Bowl ever" - the Pittsburgh Steelers win a tit-for-tat comeback battle with the Arizona Cardinals, 27-23, at Tampa, Fla. in Super Bowl XLIII. A look at some Web design following the game Sunday night: That's espn.com'...

Sweet illustrated map produced by designer Gussi Kim for adidas and the Euro 2008 tournament. Thanks to Steve Cavendish for the find!...

The 2008 British Open is underway. I have no idea what Ian Poulter is wearing, but damn if he doesn't take metrosexual to new heights. Yep, the dude is married. To a woman. And he dresses like that. And he has a fashion line. Sigh....

This may be the first in a series of posts on design inspiration. TODAY: The gallery & artist Jeffrey Simmons. I had a spare hour earlier this week between a lunch date and work, so I headed to Seattle's Pioneer Square to check out some art I had seen online. Pioneer Square is home to many, many...

Detroit Free Press art director Rick Nease sends along this hockey poster page. So far, the Red Wings are crushing the Penguins. Nease points out the poster's inspiration (below). -- Oh gawd, we won! We won the WHL title!Man, this trophy is heavier than I thought, hey, you wanna hold it? Whoooops .....

It was a little over a week ago that I got a reality check. Maybe some of you know the feeling.I was on a list of possible layoffs at The Seattle Times. Since I still have a job, and I'm not the bridge-burning type, I'm not writing this to spout off. I got official word Wednesday that my position wa...

Industry news: Big congrats to Jon Fisch, promoted to ASE for Presentation at The Seattle Times. Since joining the paper last year, Fisch has done a great job of coming up with original ideas and fostering communication. Get the scoop via Charles Apple's blog. -- Battlestar Galactica fans know tonig...