It's Alright, Ma (Crain's New York Business Is Only Redesigning)

Editor Jeremy Smerd unveils a bold new look.

CrainsFast50In an Editor’s Note outlining the ‘radical redesign’ of Crain’s New York Business, Jeremy Smerd quotes a line from the 1965 Bob Dylan song “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).” The idea that someone who is “not busy being born is busy dying.”

Crain’s isn’t quite as old as Dylan’s fifth studio album, Bringing It All Back Home, from which that song came. But in this, the publication’s 30th anniversary year, Smerd and co. felt it was time with the Oct.

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