As a graphic designer you’ve undoubtedly overheard talk of elegant wedding invitation design. Elegance in design is so admired it is often spoken of in reverential tones. But what is elegant design? Many people misconstrue elegance to mean lavish – they believe an elegant design is one with calligraphic text, wavy lines, perhaps a fleur-de-lis. [...]
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Seven Tips for Perfect Party Invitations
The perfect party invitations are difficult to come by on the supermarket shelves, but that doesn’t mean your efforts are a wash. Instead of buying what everyone else buys, why not create your own custom party invitation design to send to friends and family – or even business customers? To get you started on the [...]
Four Ways to Ruin Birthday Invitations
You might not think it’s possible to ruin birthday invitations, but unfortunately many would-be celebrants do just that when they hastily design invitations weeks before the big day. A seemingly simple snafu during the design phase can have disastrous consequences down the road. Here are four ways to ruin birthday invitations. 1. Typos By far [...]
Make Your Own Party Invitations Quick and Easy
Party invitations are the best way to spread the word about your big celebration. Whether you’re hosting a birthday party, holiday party, company party or any other type of party, you’ll need to send party invitations to your guest list with enough time for guests to make plans to attend. But instead of thinking of [...]
How to Design Your Own Political Bumper Sticker
If you’re running a campaign for a small city or county then you might not have access to the multi-million dollar campaign donations enjoyed by politicians who vie for political seats in larger venues. That means you’re probably managing your own campaign, and you probably have to design your own political signage. One of the [...]
Political Signs That Make a Difference
If you want to get elected, you need political signs to broadcast your message day and night, to demonstrate that you have many supporters, to brand your platform and to snuff the competition. Everybody distributes political yard signs, and although they’re a necessary campaign staple, they are not significant simply because they’re so popular. If [...]
Political Postcards: What You Need To Know
Postcards are a print marketing staple of many political election campaigns for good reason: They work, and they’re cheap to design, print and send. Despite these amazing benefits of the printed postcard, many politicians and political organizers/campaign managers miss the boat when it comes to taking advantage of the full potential of postcards as political [...]
School Levy Marketing Techniques
The passage of school levies is vital to local education, and if you serve on a school levy campaign you know that you often have to pull a lot together in a relatively short amount of time – mostly from volunteers who have day (or night) jobs. Your ability to market and sell your school [...]
School Levy Campaign Print Marketing
A quality educational system is vital to America’s future, and well-funded schools are poised to provide the best educations to bright young minds. Although an overwhelming majority of Americans support education, it can still be difficult to pass school levies during tough economical times. Demonstrating why money is needed and how it will be used [...]
Election Marketing Tips
A successful political campaign wins the hearts of a broad range of voters through a carefully crafted marketing strategy. In today’s fast-paced, not-enough-hours-in-the-day world, many voters do not take the initiative to actively research and compare political candidates. That means that when Election Day comes, ballots are cast according to how well each candidate’s campaign [...]
