Jacek Utko: Can design save the newspaper?

Newspapers and TV are getting obsolete and can, and should, be replaced by interactive, user friendly, objective, informational, non-biased, and free Web content.

why would i want to drive a porsche if I don't have money to afford it? and even i could afford it i still would think about buying it more than twice.... i would have to think if I really need a "PORSCHE"

People like nice, sleek designs. Take a look at Apple and its products. Not so compatible and useful as compatition, say, WIndows. But people still want it cause of the elegant design, clean interface and eye candy. Then take a look on Windows, Widnows Mobile, every cell phone out there. Yeah, useful things, ugly things. We love using beautifil things, its a statement. That's way majority of people want to have a porshe instead of Prius.

Newspapers SHOULD no longer exist. We should save paper, and so save trees. Think about how much unneeded paper you have everyday.

I agree with you totally, there are some many more interesting and useful ways of getting your news.

I cannot completely agree with you. The data/content on the internet have still much lower quality than that of the newspaper/magazines. Besides, some people DO care abour aeshtethics as well as for their own eyes - it's still much more healthy to use paper than look at the PC screen for longer periods of time.

Lord Kelvin in 1904 said that radio has no future. It was false then, and it's false presently, though we have new inventions like TV or the Internet.

If you think the data/content on the internet is of lower quality than a newspaper, you aren't really using the web. I care about my aesthetics too, but the primary concern for news is functionality....and a big flimsy complicated piece of paper is not the way.

That convinces me that there is hope for the newspaper industry.

the newspaper would look better but the content of the news materials provided by the journalists would be the same old biased story and heavily controlled by their editors

so what i gathered from it is this : wow nice looking newspaper, but lousy content

Designers can make it look nice all they want, but the quality of the things you read remains, and of course production cost sky rockets, I wonder who they sell these newspapers to

Power to designers....spot on, perhaps Google should take note?

I do have to agree w/ andid however, and also Mr.Utko's comment..."yesterday's news"
I haven't even looked at a newspaper besides throwing my parent's in the recycling. I have technology! even magazines are outdated to me. I use twitter, so do most of the news and tech publications I care about, I don't need to look away from my phone! survival of the fittest, newspaper are no longer fit. No more paper products, save some trees