Regardless of the drama in this thread, I don't think this is a very good redesign. It doesn't really offer any solutions that the current NYT doesn't already do better and there are some really amateurish mistakes with the typography and usability.
The drop caps are awful, line height is all over the place, adverting is ill-considered, photography misused, misunderstood whitespace, etc. Unsolicited redesigns can be great practice and helpful for exploring new concepts but this falls flat for me.
Regardless of the drama in this thread, I don't think this is a very good redesign. It doesn't really offer any solutions that the current NYT doesn't already do better and there are some really amateurish mistakes with the typography and usability.
The drop caps are awful, line height is all over the place, adverting is ill-considered, photography misused, misunderstood whitespace, etc. Unsolicited redesigns can be great practice and helpful for exploring new concepts but this falls flat for me.