The flyer is the ad space for the current occasion. Without abysmal cost and thanks to simple production you can spread this print product, sometimes called leaflet or broadsheet, very fast. Thus the next party or any other event is on track to success.
For your inspiration we collected 30 prime flyer examples and put them together in a single post. As you can see the trend goes towards big illustrations and graphic elements. Almost always eye-catching lettering is used to reach as many people as possible. By the way, we also offer flyer printing. Try our print calculator to get a quote for your flyer project.
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Today, the International Blog Day is celebrating its 5th anniversary. Purpose of this day is to discover new blogs you probably haven’t heard about before and to spread the word. It aims to give the many talented bloggers out there an opportunity to extend their readership and reach a wider audience. That’s why we would like to share with you five of the great blogs we follow on a regular basis.
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Today we feature a short but useful tutorial about cross processing with Photoshop. This effect originally comes from analogue photography and dates back to the 80’s of the 20th century. It used to be very popular at that time and now comes back to fame in the digital age. Means and methods of achieving this effect have of course changed since then.
In analogue photography certain films require certain chemicals for correct development. Negative color print film and positive color reversal film are processed with different chemicals. If you switch the chemicals and use them to treat the ‘wrong’ type of photographic film you can achieve astonishing results.
Nowadays we hardly develop film anymore. We tend to edit photos digitally. Reproducing this effect (with Photoshop CS in this case) is quite simple.
The settings and values used in this tutorial are no set values; they are hints towards the right direction. Especially with this effect it’s useful and fun to try your way around as the picture you start with has great influence on the later result.
The tutorial was created by our talented German crew, so the Photoshop dialogues are in German. This shouldn’t be an issue, however, as the steps and their positions in the dialogue boxes are still the same. Anyway, if something isn’t entirely clear to you just write us a comment and we see to it. Oh, and by the way: there’s a contest at the end of this article!
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It’s unbelievable how creative some designers approach the realisation of their logo ideas. Numbers are used as letters, areas between letters are filled with shapes. Graphics skillfully integrated into the lettering further emphasise the written message.
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During the first half of 2010 loads of excellent logos have been published. One particularly dominant trend is designs playing with negative space. Thereby the actual shape of the logo is used to create a second shape from the background in order to emphasise the message of the logo symbol itself.
Our collection of current trends shows some examples of this. There is a flamingo forming a horse, a fountain pen hinting at a female body or 4 fishes actually being 8 fishes. All of this accomplished only through the space enclosed by the logo shape. With this logo collection we offer you examples of intelligent implementation and a source of inspiration. Have a look
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The Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (Issue 33, available since Friday, 20/08/2010) presents its readers a media-experience never seen before. Together with augmented reality specialists (AR) metaio a complete issue of the magazine got enriched with multimedia content available through a smartphone.
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Tags: AR, Augmented Reality, Multimedia, Newspaper, Smartphone
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We made a little special about online image editing up for you. For many people Photoshop, the standard picture editing software, is too complicated, too slow or simply beyond budget. For most purposes it’s not necessary to install a local software with thousands of functions. Scaling a picture here and there, removing the red-eye-effect or doing simple colour adjustments works perfectly with these useful tools.
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Tags: aviary.com, drpic.com, flauntr.com, fotoflexer.com, online image editing, phixr.com, photoshop.com, picnik.com, pixer.us, pixlr.com, splashup.com
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