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Kristin Lenz, who has been at the Boston Globe since fall 2007, is headed to D.C. to become art director for the Post’s financial section. Memo follows…

When asked to describe Lisa Clausen, her friends and colleagues keep using one word: integrity.

Clausen, the features design director at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, died Tuesday after battling a rare form of abdominal cancer. She was 51.

From the top: Design Editor Todd Stewart pushes the button on the new front page Saturday night; (middle) The first copies of the redesigned paper rolls off the press; and (bottom) Todd Stewart, Stephen Komives and Bonita Burton toast the Orlando Sentinel team with some very expensive bubbly. (It was jersey day at the Sentinel).

Check out a gallery of debut pages here.

The Blog hears that design guru Mario Garcia has begun blogging. It turns out that the globe-trotting guru, who admits he’s late to game (“I may be the last person in our field to get into blogging,” Mario laughed when we caught up with him), is trying to share stories from his life on the road.

The Salt Lake Tribune has begun publishing a Spanish-language weekly. The new publication uses Chronicle and Myriad Pro throughout, according to Colin Smith’s blog. See a description and more pages here.

Quietly mentioned in the sixth paragraph of the story on the buyouts at The Washington Post was this news: “In addition, a number of Post editors who are less-known to the outside world will leave, including … Michael Keegan, who runs the News Art department.”

The National Press Photographers Association has a solid lineup of industry rock stars ready for action this week in Kentucky. The event has several fun ways to keep up, including a site with a bunch of cool feeds and a Twitter stream.

Following yesterday’s announcement that Kevin Wendt is leaving the Mercury News to become editor of the Huntsville Times, in Huntsville, Ala., he answered a few questions about his decision:

Kevin Wendt, currently an Assistant Managing Editor, will become the editor of the Huntsville Times, in Huntsville, Ala. Full memo after the jump:

Nuri Ducassi is leaving her post as Design Director at the Montreal Gazette to become Features Design Director at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Memo from Design Director Paul Wallen follows: