A newspaper is a composition, like music

The front page of today's Courier-Journal was hand-drawn by a Turkish artist, an experiment in public art I love. If only we were as inventive every day.

It reminded me of this TED talk by Jacek Utko, a Polish designer who said there's “no practical reason for newspapers to survive,” then went on to describe how superb design helped lift the circulation of a chain of European newspapers. “We were treating the whole newspaper as one piece, as one composition,” he said, “like music.”

You can live in a small, poor country, like me. You can work for a small company, in a boring branch, you can have no budgets, no people, but still can put your work to the highest possible level. And everybody can do it. You just need inspiration, vision and determination. And you need to remember that to be good is not enough.