Canadian Family redesigns and relaunches its parenting website

CanadianFamily.ca
Canadian Family magazine (St Joseph Media) has rebuilt its website CanadianFamily.ca to reflect changes they have seen in online parenting information sites since the site was launched in 2006. One of the most obvious improvements was sections tabbed by age and stage so visitors can quickly find information most relevant to their situation.The centerpiece is the new

Momentum, the Vancouver-based cycling magazine, unveils new look and new tagline

Momentum, the Vancouver-based cycling magazine with North American ambitions, has unveiled its new look at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Austin Texas. With the new logotype, downplaying the name in favour of an iconic 'MO', comes a new tagline. Formerly it was "The magazine for self-propelled people". Now it is "Smart living by bike". Showing off the new logo and tagline are

Torstar's Eye Weekly to be given a whole new look (and a whole new name?)

Big changes are afoot at Toronto's Eye Weekly (published by Torstar), including a complete redesign of the print magazine and the website, perhaps topped by a new name. According to a story in Marketing magazine [no longer available online], the dramatic overhaul will be trumpeted by a multi-media advertising campaign devised by the hip agency Rethink Toronto. The publisher and editor-in-chief of

The Hockey News shucks newsprint pages and goes all-glossy November 8

New look on stands Nov. 8
Transcontinental Media's The Hockey News is giving up its long-time newsprint tabloid format and becoming a glossy magazine, in part to satisfy and attract more advertisers. According to a story in Marketing magazine, publisher Caroline Andrews has wanted to convert THN since arriving in 2007. First there was a glossy cover; now it will be glossy throughout."I think

Early look at new-look Globe and Mail to be unveiled next Friday

The new-look Globe and Mail design and presentation is being allowed out in public; at least Friday, Adrian Norris, the managing editor for presentation and his associate, Jason Chiu, gave a glimpse and an overview to a workshop at the Society for News Design conference in Denver. The new, slimmer, Guardian-eque Globe with colour on every page debuts next Friday. [Thanks to Charles Apple at

Turnbull says he aims at provoking fearlessly as he remakes Eye Weekly

Laas Turnbull says in an interview with Marketing magazine that he has big, aggressive plans for Eye Weekly, Torstar's paradoxically "alt" weekly. Turnbull, who was at one time editor of the Globe and Mail ROB magazine and, after a detour into management at Brunico Communications (Strategy etc.) has now taken on as editor-in-chief  the repositioning and top-to-bottom redesign of the publication,

PROFIT unveils new look, new content in website

New look PROFITguide.com
Rogers Publishing has re-launched a wholly renovated PROFITguide.com, Canada's Online Guide to Small Business Success. As a companion to the small business magazine PROFIT, the site is intended to provide authoritative analysis and advice for the small and mid-sized business sector.Contributors include digital media guru and Twist Image CEO Mitch Joel; B2B marketing

AZURE magazine unveils new look, smaller size

New look
Azure, the Toronto-based design and architecture magazine, has come out with a completely redesigned look and a new size. 

Having in recent years been over-sized, the magazine is moving to a more standard magazine format (9 x 11.5 inches) ; where before its logo, while bold and assertive was up in the left corner of the cover, now it dominates the cover in a reworked custom face.  The

Toronto Life makeover is an "homage to classic magazine design"

Toronto Life magazine has unveiled a redesign that recovers its iconic red box and a revamped logotype (above). Its August issue's new look was unveiled at a reception in Toronto this  week and essentially undoes much of a redesign made 5 years ago. It is on some newsstands now and will be on all of them by July 15.

The magazine's content has been shaken up, too, with former Globe and Mail

New-look Chatelaine seems to have dispensed with substance altogether

I don't believe I'm alone in wondering how far the transformation of venerable magazine Chatelaine will go. The current (June) issue essentially contains no feature material at all. No profiles. No issues dealt with. Nothing that would qualify as a "good read".  The Chatelaine of old could deftly blend fluff and substance. Now, much of the substance appears to have been jettisoned. 

The magazine

Xtra! gets a brand new look

The Ottawa version of Xtra!, the gay and lesbian publication, has undergone a dramatic redesign. A digital version is available. And the new design regime -- the first since 1998 -- will be rolled out in Toronto and Vancouver the week of March 25th.The current issue of the Ottawa edition has a cover story on how increasingly conservative neighbourhood associations in the national capitol are

World's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer redesigns

The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, is relaunching this weekend and, with it is a wholly new design and a new arts section called The New Review, designed by the paper's creative director Carolyn Roberts. A preliminary look shows that the Berliner format hybrid (newspaper/magazine) has considerable charm. 

You can look at a funny promo video for the relaunch, read the editor John

24 Hours redesigned with new logo, new type, new colours

Sun Media Corporation has redesigned and reorganized its magapaper 24 Hours; its new look is in the boxes today (Tuesday 8th). According to a release from the company, the facelift has new fonts, new colours and a new logo."We have decided to revamp 24 Hours to continue to meet and exceed our readers' expectations. The redesigned product will provide our readers with all the information and

Border Crossings magazine launches new size, new face

Border Crossings magazine has launched its September issue with a new, larger format and a new typeface . The Winnipeg-based magazine has increased in size to 9 x 11.75", with the larger size allowing even more latitude for the visuals that the arts magazine is well-known for. The new-look magazine is on the newsstands now. The new look will be celebrated with a launch party at McNally Robinson

Quote, unquote: On why a tagline should means something

"I’ll let you in on a little secret: no one actually knows what eclectic curiosity means. It’s a redundancy wrapped in an enigma wrapped in bacon. A cute, finger-food phrase—something perky-sounding that may or may not contain real substance, all held together by a wooden toothpick. In my defense, I love bacon, which may explain why we’ve kept it around this long.But curiosity is, by definition,

Canadian Health & Lifestyle launches new look

Canadian Health & Lifestyle Magazine, is launching a redesign. “While some publications are slowing down, we’re gearing up for the future. The new design reflects that," said Joe Viecili, publisher of the magazine.The 5-year-old quarterly magazine is now ranked 7th in readership in Canada, according to PMB 2008. It has a total controlled distribution of 1,600,000 nationally including through

Canadian Homestead rebrands as Canadian Home Trends

Canadian Homestead magazine, the Manitoba-based shelter and design title, has rebranded itself Canadian Home Trends. The new look and name is being unveiled for the February/March issue, although the transition has already begun on the magazine's web pages."The new name, Canadian Home Trends better represents our classy and modern urban magazine our readers have grown to love and the great

New look and structure being unveiled at The Walrus

After a suitable pause for reflection, Walrus editor John Macfarlane and art director Brian Morgan have unveiled a new look and structure in the March/April issue, according to an excellent story in mastheadonline. (The magazine apparently prefers to call the new look for the five-years-plus title a "re-engineering" rather than a redesign, but to an outside observer, when you change the logo, the

ON Nature magazine unveils new look

ON Nature, the quarterly magazine of Ontario Nature (Federation of Ontario Naturalists)has an updated look unveiling with its current issue. The redesign was carried out by Levi Nicholson, who has been art directing the magazine since the spring of 2007. (Nicholson works now for Zaxis Communications). The new look is above right; the former look (Winter '07) is below.Victoria Foote, the editor of

Rogers's Pharmacy Post relaunched as Drugstore Canada

Pharmacy Post, a 15-year-old Rogers Publishing business-to-business title, is being completely renovated,with a new name, a new size (from tab down to standard magazine) and a new look, according to an item posted on Mastheadonline.It will now be called Drugstore Canada and its new look and editorial structure will reflect changes in modern pharmacies which often seem more like cosmetic boutiques