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Lately it seems more small business owners are asking me for inexpensive printing ideas. While they’d love to be investing in personalized promotional items, the cost per item is not always economical. Enter the bookmark, stage right.
Customized bookmarks are easier than ever to order. Many printers offer a standard 2″x6″ template now, eliminating costly setup and cutting charges. Often you can design online by adding images, backgrounds, colors and text, or upload your own completed design.
Use bookmark sized cards in addition to your traditional business card. Give bookmarks to clients and colleagues to promote or advertise, or to announce incentives. Feeling extra creative? Personalize printed bookmarks by adding ribbon, textured paper, gems, buttons and more.
Ideas for bookmark content:
Clients will think of you first when they see your bookmark in their current book or magazine, sitting on their desk or on their corkboard, or in their wallet or bag. You’ll want to hand them out more frequently knowing the printing cost is low, but the value of the bookmark is sky high!
Noferin embodies the combined efforts of Candy, a graphic designer and painter, and Nick, environmentally conscious writer and sculpter. The results of this duo are whimsical sculptures and prints of the Pecanpals.
The characters art brought to life through playful prints and cheerful wooden sculptures. Follow the Pecanpals’ adventures through the stories told in the hand-carved, hand-painted prints. Or make up your own tales by playing with a wooden Pecanpal.
Recently Noferin announced their Natural Wood Series of Pecanpals, following the success of their previous coloured wood edition. Pecanpals are made from 100% sustainably harvested wood from rubber tree that would otherwise go to waste.
My favorite design aspect is the contemporary take on a vintage look, especially in the prints. I love the how the colors are fused with detailed illustrations and how the wood grains are enhanced.
Be sure to visit Noferin’s online gallery to browse the prints and illustrations and see how Pecanpals interact with nature and enjoy their little world.
Artist Frank Chimero
The Grain Edit blog is a well run, fascinating look into 1950s-70s design.
The galleries of artwork, brochures, vintage books and posters highlight artists worldwide. They also feature interviews, including many contemporary artists who have been inspired by the colors, shapes and fonts of the period.
If you enjoy design of any kind, or just need to feel inspired, check out Grain Edit.
Expressionery.com offers unique stationery for every occasion. For everyday use, casual, seasonal, formal and fun notecards, paper, stamps, labels, and more, Expressionery.com left no stone unturned when designing their product line.
It’s more important than ever to send a note of thanks to friends and colleagues for a job well done. Now it can be sent in style, with a notecard that is sure to draw attention.
During the holidays and beyond December, a photo notecard capturing a fun moment is always a welcome sight among bills stacked in the mailbox.
Their monogrammed stationery is perfect for formal notes to colleagues and business professionals. Consider a set of notecards, stamp and labels.
Additionally, Expressionery.com has included accessories like book plates, calling cards, embossed napkins, and gift sets.
Having an event, shower, or party? They’ve made planning for business or otherwise fool proof by providing perfectly matched themes for impressing your guests.
Their website is fun and colorful, and easy to navigate. Be sure to check out their tips for writing thank yous or bereavement notes, how to teach kids to write cards and proper postal requirements. And personalizing your new stationery is a snap with dozens of patterns, images and fonts to choose from.
Clients frequently ask for a definition of Spot Color, PMS inks, and CMYK printing.
A spot color is a special premixed ink that is used in printing in addition to CMYK process inks, and requires its own plate on a printing press. Spot colors are used when only a few colors are necessary in a design and can accurately reproduce colors that are outside the gamut of process colors. They are not determined by altered color values or by color management, and follow a spot color matching system such as Pantone, Inc. Each spot color used will generate an additional spot color printing plate for a printing press, increasing printing costs. If you think your design may require more than four colors, consider printing the document using process colors (CMYK).
Pantone®, Pantone Matching System and PMS are Pantone, Inc’s standard trademarks for color standards, color data, color reproduction and color reproduction materials, and other color related products and services, meeting its specifications, control and quality requirements. Using Pantone colors will produce consistent color from more than one printer/supplier. Colors are normally referred to by a corresponding number on the Pantone palette.
CMYK stands for the ink colors Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, used in process color printing. CMYK is the standard color model used in offset printing full-color documents. When using the inks of these four basic colors, certain percentages of these colors can be added and subtracted to yield a variety of new colors. Combining 100% of all four colors together will yield black, while subtracting all the colors will yield white, or the color of the paper stock.
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