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Three Steps to Great Design

When you spend your hard-earned money on a piece of print marketing, you want it to look its best.

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These timely tips will help you can make a fantastic-looking piece of marketing material that will capture your audience’s attention and ensure your printed pieces are not only seen but heard.

Use Spot Color: King of the Dramatic

Spot color in print marketing materials is a powerful technique that can make your designs stand out.

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Instead of relying solely on standard CMYK colors, spot color allows you to specify a unique hue for a more vibrant result. When used cleverly, spot color can create a dramatic impact or a subtle yet attention-grabbing effect. For example, imagine a black-and-white photo with a single spot of red color strategically placed. The viewer’s eye is naturally drawn to the red spot, conveying a clear message.

To achieve a significant impact, it’s essential to choose the right color and place it strategically, ensuring it catches the reader’s attention in the intended way.

Think Simple

Simplicity is crucial in effective print marketing design.

By carefully editing your design elements, you can create a more impactful message. Instead of overwhelming your readers with an excessive amount of content, it’s important to choose your words, pictures, and design elements thoughtfully. Removing unnecessary clutter allows the viewer to focus on the essential message you’re trying to convey.

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Rather than cramming every possible image and graphic onto a page, consider what will make the greatest impact. It’s about prioritizing quality over quantity and selecting elements that will truly resonate with your audience.

Persuade Readers to Action

Persuasion also plays a vital role in effective print marketing design

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To achieve success, it’s crucial to clearly understand what you are selling or offering through your marketing materials. Trying to convey too much information in a single effort can be overwhelming and dilute the message. Instead, it’s advisable to plan and strategize the use of multiple pieces to reach your customers effectively.

When creating a sign, for instance, it’s important to focus on delivering one key piece of information rather than multiple ideas. A prime example is the universally recognized stop sign. Its simple and direct design serves as a persuasive tool by instantly capturing people’s attention and signaling them to refrain from proceeding further. By employing a straightforward graphic in a persuasive manner, the stop sign illustrates how the process of informing can effectively lead to action.

No matter what you are creating, these simple steps should help guide you on your path to design. And when it comes to printing, you know the next step, contact us today!




The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
by Steven Heller

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This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design.

Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include form, narrative, color, type and image, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour.

The result is an instantly accessible and easy to understand guide to graphic design using professional techniques.


Eco Friendly

Eco-friendly promotional products are good for the environment and good for getting your message across to your target audience.

Tradeshows

Promotional items that endorse your business are great items to give away at tradeshows. They offer endless opportunities to get your message across to new audiences.

Corporate Gifts

Show employee appreciation and build company morale. Items such as flash drives, picture frames, desk accessories and computer mice make great employee gifts.

New Products

View our newest promotional products! We are constantly adding new items to our 300,000+ inventory to give you fresh and up-to-date choices every day.

Awards

Awards and recognition gifts say thank you to employees for a job well done. We carry awards, plaques, trophies, ribbons and much more.

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Promotional Products

We carry promotional items such as eco-friendly gifts, awards, corporate gifts, new products and tradeshow items.

Business Stationery

Our business card program streamlines your order process yet gives you complete control over your content. Letterhead, envelopes and pocket cards too!

Occasion Cards

We carry holiday and occasion cards, moving announcements, thank you notes and more. Customize your cards with logo imprints and other options!

Memos & Notepads

We print company phone pads, note pads and forms in various sizes. Personalize them with your company logo, names and contact information.

Programs & Announcements

Full color announcements and programs for fundraisers, trade shows, banquets and agendas. We also foil stamp, emboss and die cut.

Brochures

We print full color single to multi-sheet newsletters, product sheets, tri-folds, rack cards, handouts and promotional literature.

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Offset Printing

We print items such as business stationary, brochures, occasion cards, memos & notepads, programs and announcements.

Tips & Tricks

Design and tech tips to make designing your job a little easier, marketing tips to assist your advertising efforts and print tips for faster, less expensive buying.

Tutorials

Check out our video on how to sign in to your account and place orders online.

Printing Terms

Look here for a glossary of the most common terms in the printing industry.

Templates

Find different templates to design your full-size banners.

FAQ's

How do I send a file? How do I save a document as a PDF? What is a CMYK color format? Answers to your most frequently asked questions.

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Tips & Tricks

Design and tech tips to make designing your job a little easier, marketing tips to assist your advertising efforts and print tips for faster, less expensive buying.

Presentations

Pitch books and investment books help you communicate your message with PowerPoint presentations, graphs, and charts. Custom binding and tabs available.

Manuals

We can print 1-5000+ copies of your training, safety and operational manuals and technical documents. Full color, B&W, binding, inserts, index tabs, even lamination.

Black and White Copies

Our high-speed, high quality B&W laser printers produce crisp, clean copies of legal documents, RFP's, variable data, digital output of files, manuals and more.

Archiving

Do you need digital scans of your important documents? Letter, legal, 11 x 17, oversize? We can PDF your documents or OCR scan your files to create searchable, editable text files.

Color Copies

Our high-quality digital color presses turn out beautiful invitations, flyers, brochures, newsletters, rack cards, coupons and more. We can also print large format prints and maps.

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Digital Printing

We print B&W and color copies of presentations, product sheets, manuals, newletters, brochures, postcards and more. We also do archival scanning.

Maps & Prints

We print oversized, digital prints of well-logs, operational flow charts and pipe line maps. Turn your maps and prints into digital files for emailing and archiving.

Banners

Full color, affordable, retractable banners make great trade shows displays, point of purchase signage, directional signage and outdoor vinyl banners.

Oversize Scans

We scan large format documents such as well-logs, engineering plans and maps to digital files. Your PDF digital scans can be easily archived to CD.

Posters

Our digitally printed posters and prints are exceptional, with crisp, vibrant colors and photographic quality. Custom stock, mounting and laminating available.

Event Signage

Catch people's attention with color signage! We produce banners stands, pop up and hanging displays, full color table covers and tabletop displays.

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Large Format Printing

We print event signage, maps, banners, well-logs, posters, prints and more. We also do oversize scanning.

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