Behind the headlines at the Spotlight relaunch

It's here: Spotlight in its new look. Your favourite magazine is now better, brighter and more valuable than ever. The big question facing the magazine team in mid-summer was: How can we make Spotlight more interesting and useful to the readers? After months of meetings, days of debate and lots of hard work, the answer they delivered was a magazine with a fresh look and lots of exciting new elements. Let's see what it offers.

Now let's hear the views of three members of the Spotlight team who helped make the redesign a reality.

"We've chosen a completely new iconography (visual language) for the big features to create an easier and more contemporary look"
— Thorsten Mansch, photo editor

"The magazine is just so attractive now. I think the reader will find it hard not to want to read it cover to cover. In the January issue, we also have a feature on how you can make the most of each issue of Spotlight. We give you tips and ideas on how to make your learning more effective; like learning combinations of words in context rather than as single words, or thinking about how you learn best. We also now have more language and cultural information in certain sections of the magazine, called "Info to Go". There really is so much the reader can get out of Spotlight!"
— Dagmar Taylor, co-language editor

"The History pages now have more pictures, more colour and more text, in order to help readers better understand important developments in human civilization. January's History section follows an expedition into the Kalahari Desert 60 years ago to document the ways of the legendary "bushmen", or San people, of southern Africa"
— Mike Pilewski, senior copy editor