il Palermo is Novantacento's sport magazine. Mainly focused on Palermo football team, it was born in 2007 as a monthly magazine. I started working on il Palermo in June 2008, under Alessandro Fiore's art direction, developing his conception of a luxury sport magazine, with a lot of attention to images, font coherence and colour schemes. The visual quality was also enhanced by Tullio Puglia's marvelous photos.
In April 2009, il Palermo was transformed from monthly to weekly magazine, to follow closely other sports in town, such as volley, rugby, tennis and waterpolo. Also, size and type of paper were changed, because of technical printing issues. I was instructed to redesign and reorganize the magazine layout (merging it with Match Today), with Alessandro Fiore and Angelo Baldi.
Of course we tried to mantain the magazine identity, while adapting it to new format, new contents and new workflow. We created a flexible grid that permits lots of variations, but with a solid structure, easy to manage in shortage of time. So every week it's possibile to design recurrent pages almost instantly and then focus on main articles, giving them a unique touch.
I left il Palermo in March 2010, after 7 monthly+ 27 weekly issues.
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