Design is a very
subjective thing, therefore, if you ask me how to come up with a first class
design for your marketing collateral or publishing mediums, it would be very
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 principles that we should
look for in a design to determine whether the design and layout of the material
will be able to carry the message across effectively to the readers and your
potential market. The main aim of every design material related to advertising
or promotion is either to sell something, promote something or brand a company.
Keep the design and layout simple and clean
The more cluttered or messy the layout and design is for your
marketing collateral, the harder it would be for your customers to find the
important stuff. So, don’t overcrowd the design of your marketing materials.
First and foremost, it should be kept clean and very simple. Yes, we all want
to fit as much information as we can into the design but hey, keep the purpose
of the design of the marketing stuff 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…etc), keep to the same colors in your
design. You should present a very simplistic, unique, corporate, professional,
consistent image, not a haphazard one. How can anyone rely on you when you have
that kind of image, right? It’s best that you not use too many colors for your
design. And another important point about designing marketing materials is
this; avoid using all the colors of the rainbow in one design! You’re not
trying to confuse your customers, you’re trying to make it easy for them to find
information, attract them and urge them to buy something from you! I would say
using 2 or 3 main colors from your corporate color for the design is good
enough.
Fonts
There are tons of free fonts (quite incredibly attractive ones
at that) that you can find off the Internet for the design of your marketing
stuff – but the sad news is that it’s not always possible 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 different (a bolder and louder font) for the headings and titles in
your design.
Images in your design
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