Design is a extremely subjective thing, consequently, if you ask me how to arrive up with a first class design for your advertising collateral or publishing mediums, it would be extremely unfair for me or anyone else to tell you what is a good design and what is a bad design. But there are certain elements and rules that we should look for in a design to determine whether the design and layout of the material will be able to carry the communication across effectively to the viewers and your possible marketplace. The primary intention of each and every design material related to advertising or marketing is both to market something, promote something or brand name a company.

Keep the design and layout simple and clear
The much more cluttered or messy the layout and design is for your advertising collateral, the tougher it would be for your clients to find the essential things. So, do not overcrowd the design of your advertising supplies. Initial and foremost, it should be kept clear and extremely simple. Indeed, we all want to match as a lot info as we can into the design but hey, maintain the purpose of the design of the advertising things in mind. You want to design a novel or design something that sells.

Design Colors
If you have a set of corporate colors (like the colors that you use on your logo, letterhead, envelopes?and so on), maintain to the same colors in your design. You should current a extremely simplistic, distinctive, corporate, professional, consistent picture, not a haphazard one. How can anyone depend on you when you have that kind of picture, right? It is best that you not use as well many colors for your design. And another essential stage about creating advertising supplies is this avoid using all the colors of the rainbow in one design! You are not attempting to confuse your clients, you’re attempting to make it easy for them to find info, entice them and urge them to buy something from you! I would say using two or 3 primary colors from your corporate color for the design is good sufficient.

Fonts
There are tons of totally free fonts (really extremely appealing ones at that) that you can find off the Internet for the design of your advertising things ? but the sad news is that it is not usually feasible to use all of them. Keep to one single font for the content in your design, and if you wish to, you can use a various (a bolder and louder font) for the headings and titles in your design.

Pictures in your design
Unlike internet publishing, using pictures in the design of your brochures, flyers, menus, company profiles is usually a good idea. Enticing your clients with useful pictures or diagrams that illustrates your stage or including pictures of your products in the design of your advertising things is encouraged. Be cautious and weary of using stock pictures from the internet for your advertising material. 1, the resolution of such pictures (those that you can get off the Internet) is never good sufficient for printing purposes. Two, you will get in trouble with the people who really owns the rights to those pictures. So, if feasible, if you want to use pictures or illustrative pictures in your design, it is best to both get the pictures for the design yourself (with your digital digital camera) or you should just buy it.

© 2005, Marsha Maung
Email: marshamaung@yahoo.com
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Marsha Maung is a freelance graphic designer and copy writer who functions from her house in Selangor, Malaysia. She enjoys absolutely nothing much more than blowing bubbles in the park with her two kids, Joshua and Jared. She styles apparel and top quality products at http://www.creativejooz.com and is the author of “Raising small magicians”, and the popular “The Lance in freelancing”. More info can be found at http://www.marshamaung.com