These days, every business presentation revolves around creative and visually-appealing designs that push the envelope and merge beautifully with the compelling, brand-specific content. This is especially true now that our marketing assets are often first encountered online in their digital form.
Wasn’t Design Relevant Before the Digital Era, Too?
Yes, it was. Beautifully designed marketing materials always had their spot in collateral, but now are more prominent and valuable. The times are quick, and so are the demands on marketing to keep pace. On the one hand, designers are more pressured and challenged than ever to keep up with the fast-paced, competitive applications, and on the other, they are pushed to experiment with their designs, creative visions and artistic expressions more often than they usually would.
Why Are Collateral and Design Interlinked?
Collateral materials reflect the core values of your brand, reinforcing the message you want to send to your audience. To
inspire your target audience make a brand connection, you need to have your visual and content presentation cohesive, relevant and on point. No matter how beautifully written your brand content is, it won’t leave the best impression unless backed up with suitable design (and vice versa.)
Staying relevant, exciting and fresh with the design methods you are using for your brand promotion is now more relevant than ever – that is, if you want to keep your target audience interested. On that note, we’ve put together a few critical design tips that will help you create remarkable marketing materials and
refresh your brand.
Use Compelling Colors That Reflect Your Brand
Concerning brand recognition: colors matter. When choosing colors for your marketing collateral opt for compelling colors that reflect your brand’s personality; the right color process is everything for a good design. Create a strong palette by drawing inspiration from your logo and official brand colors.
Be Mindful of the Lines
The way you use lines in your marketing collateral may make or break the design; lines direct the eye, give a sense of movement and create emphasis. Don’t be afraid to add a little drama to the plan. If there is any “negative space” (i.e., the space in between) in the design, use it to create original images.
Make Sure That the Texts Are Readable
We understand you love to play with fonts (who doesn’t!) but don’t go overboard. When designing marketing materials for your business, choose the type of fonts your target market understands, and not those that are only beautiful to look at. Also, steer clear of using too many font types in a single document: limit your use to 1 to 2 fonts, and make them
font representatives of your brand personality. Be mindful of the appropriate font size, too. Adjust the font size of your text in a way that all content of your design is easy to read. Naturally, you can use different size fonts for emphasis and such.
Trust Repetition
Repetition is vital for brand consistency and tying plenty of individual elements together. Use it smartly.
Play with Symmetry and Randomness
Whenever possible, use symmetry to give your design a sense of “calm.” Symmetry attracts the human eye, making it a perfect design strategy for your marketing collateral. If you are looking into creating something edgier, break the rules with asymmetry! Randomness and clutter can be very aesthetically pleasing if done right!
Embrace Transparency, Movement, and Depth
Use transparency intentionally to create movement and add an element of interaction. Movement and depth are your design’s friends; while movement injects life to designs through motion lines, blur effects or waving effects, depth gives dimension using horizon lines, 3D effects, texture, shadows, etc.
Include Texture
The texture is a fantastic design element that not only gives depth to designs but it also gives them a sense of tactility.
Balance Things Out
Understandably, you want to communicate as many messages as possible with your collateral, but too much of anything is, well, too much. Remember that every element has a weight, so make sure you
balance those elements using scale and composition the right way.
Say YES to Contrast
To help your design pop, play with contrasts; thick vs. thin, light vs. dark, cropped vs. whole, etc. Merge the purposeful and aesthetically pleasing.
Add Dynamic to Your Design Using White Space
Utilize white space of your design as the structural support for all the elements of your marketing collateral. Adequately managed white areas help drive the audience’s attention to the design elements you find the most relevant. Remove the “excess” aspects if you feel your marketing collateral doesn’t have enough white space.
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When you’ve designed your marketing collateral, we help you express it in beautiful
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The right designs work in tandem with branded marketing products that help you nurture new home buyer prospects.
Builder Promotions pairs your graphic messaging and brand with tangible marketing products that leave a lasting impression with your home buyer prospects and stakeholders. Ask our
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