Hey! Just thought I'd log in and write my first actual interesting post.
Last spring I found this awesome website called volunteermatch.org where you can volunteer locally or online. I wanted to volunteer so I could get scholarship money, and I decided I wanted to do something I liked, which is design, and I applied to all of these different places for designing newsletters or brochures. This place in California called Kelly House Museum e-mailed me back, and now I'm going to be designing their newsletter. I got on google and I looked up newsletter designs, and I keep coming up with the same ones. I decided to look a little harder for some of the best designs out there, and here is what I found:
I love this newsletter design for several reasons. They mix regular and italicized text to make it more interesting, they use a curvy shape for the text area instead of the traditional box, and they form the pictures along the curvy line as well. They also have an amazing color scheme -- blue and brown, with a little bit of green and light yellow.
This newsletter catches my eye for several other reasons. First of all, the artist was thinking outside of the box. The text is not limited to just a one-sized monotonous box. There are skinny text boxes, wide text boxes, and they are so strategically placed that they actually compliment one another. Second of all, I love the way the picture on the left bleeds off the pages. They also have an amazing use of white space.
I picked this as one of my examples to show you because it's done in all black, and not many newsletters are done very well with the color black. Peterkord is absolutely amazing obviously. I love the theme of the entire thing, how all of the pictures and text are slightly crooked but in a very appealing way.
I obviously can't write about all of the greatest newsletters out there, so here are just a few more to get your creative juices flowing!
NICOLE.!
ReplyDeletethat's AWESOME that you get to design a news letter for some place in california. I'm so jealous of your website layout/graphic design/computer skillz. Sorry, I didn't read the actual post before. I was overly excited that you had a blog ;)
ReplyDeleteyeah, it is pretty cool. the newsletter is in black and white though, so i'm not really sure how much i can do. oh well. i don't know if i like hosting a blog on blogspot because it isn't good to get traffic because its harder for search engines to find like. key words and stuff. that, and there aren't really a ton of blogspot blogs about graphic design lol. im debating on getting my own domain, but at the same time, i don't know if it would be worth it because i don't know how many people would actually read my blog.
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