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List of 180+ of the Best Design Inspiration Showcase Sites (Graphic Designers & Web Designers) - Are you looking for a little inspiration for your next design project? This list will get you through next million inspiration jams. This is a list that boasts 180+ design inspiration sites. If I have missed any inspirational sites, please comment about them below and I will add them to the list if they belong on the list.
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BANNER ADS (ONLINE GRAPHIC ADVERTISING DESIGN . HOW-TOS)
Ad Designer - Following these basic guidelines can dramatically increase your banner ads' effectiveness.
Banner Ad Design Tips - Banner ad design is an art unto itself. Creating effective banners ads can be an ellusive task. Our banner ad designers have created a list of their favorite banner ad design tips, sharing what they have learned over the years. Different areas of banner ad design are discussed such as creative concepts, design techniques, messaging, and technical issues.
Banner Ads and Branding: Defusing The Dot Bombs - Often referred to as "online billboards" or "awareness banners," branding banner ads make up most online advertising. Unfortunately, branding is the mostly commonly used and misused form of banner advertising. As such, it is responsible for the majority of failed web ad campaigns and has played a part in the demise of dot-com businesses. Here's why.
Banner Design Tips - Here are some tips for effective banner ad design and obtaining a higher click-through ratio (CTR)
Banner Design Tips - An effective banner design can make the difference between an unsuccessful and successful banner ad campaign. At Grantastic Designs, we have found that the following banner design tips can increase CTRs (click through ratios) and resulting sales. We hope these tips help you.
'Best Of' BannerAds Tips - 'Best Of' BannerAds Tips
Colors and Banner Designs - When color is used correctly, it can add impact and clarity to your banner message. Color can emphasize, highlight, and lead your end users to a call-to-action (i.e. clicking on your banner). Color can also be used to trigger emotion.
Top 7 Trends in Online Ad Design - If you're anything like me, you don't pay much attention to online ads. To those of us who spend a lot of time online, they become like white noise. To combat them, our online arsenals expand to include browsers and toolbars that offer pop-up blockers and the
PRINT AD DESIGN (OFFLINE GRAPHIC ADVERTISING DESIGN . HOW-TOS)
Advertising Design — Stand Out in Small Spaces - How does print advertising design differ from Web advertising design? How can you design small print ads that get noticed?
Advertising Design - Design: This list of articles is about how to effectively design advertisements.
Classic Books Offer Timeless Tips for Ad Design - From type changes to contrasts in size and color, makeover or create great display and small space ads using ideas from three classic desktop publishing books.
Creating Print Ads - Learn how to write and design print ads that get noticed.
Designing a Yellow Pages Ad that Works - Designing a Yellow Pages Ad that Works
Design and Print Your Own Advertising Materials - If you've been depending on others for the design and printing of all your newsletters, flyers and other material, this could be the time for your to take the plunge into desktop publishing. In today's Workshop, Jeffrey Moses shows you how to get started. It's not as hard as it looks, and it will save you money.
Design & Copywriting for Effective Print Advertising - “Good advertising” is certainly a subjective term. Different layouts, font styles, images and copywriting styles appeal to different audiences.
How to Design a Print Ad - Looking at designing an ad from scratch.
Just the FAX (Design) - Discover the difference between designing for FAX and designing for print.
My Tips and Advice - Basic Advertising Design Principles
Selecting the Right Advertising - The pros and cons of each type of print advertising
"Success With Direct Mail" - Do you want to be successful with direct mail advertising? This chapter has 20 parts, and each and every one is important. And this is just the overview of the subject.
Take the Plunge - Contrary to popular belief, you use "bad news" to create a successful advertisement. Find out how it's done.
Tips for Advertising in The Yellow Pages - Tips for Advertising in The Yellow Pages
What Your Print Advertising Can Do - 36 Ideas For More Profitable Print Ads
ADVERTISING GRAPHIC DESIGN ARCHIVES FOR INSPRIRATION
List of 180+ of the Best Design Inspiration Showcase Sites (Graphic Designers & Web Designers) - Are you looking for a little inspiration for your next design project? This list will get you through next million inspiration jams. This is a list that boasts 180+ design inspiration sites. If I have missed any inspirational sites, please comment about them below and I will add them to the list if they belong on the list.
Ad Access - The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Adaholic - Visit the Adaholic art gallery and find your favorite 100% original print ad and get a piece of fabulous history to enjoy and collect!
Ad Flip - Adflip brags to be "the worlds largest collection of classic printed ads" and has some "Gallery of the absurd" style comments in the top ten section. Collection is huge - from the 40's onwards - neatly categorised and searchable. Good as well as "so bad they are funny" ads in here - as well as just bad
Ad Parade - Advertising Inspiration Archive
Ad Forum - AdForum is the Internet’s leading portal to the advertising, marketing and communications industry
Ad Land - the beyond-a-blog, commercial-laden delirium of heaven and hell for advertising addicts 'round the world.
Advertising Archive - Buy or sell old ads here, they have ads dating from the turn of the century, on the first page you are greeted by the Heinz Ketchup Ad where a woman exlaims "you mean a woman can open it?" about the new twist off cap. Oh dear! From the ad-pre-historic to clasics, visitors can search and download adverts from all eras in the vast database
Ad Slogans - Database of advertising slogans, marketing slogans, catchphrases, straplines, end lines, claims and taglines
American Package Museum - The primary objective of this site is to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th century.
Coloribus - Repeated AD Nauseum.
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) - Presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
HAT Archive - Provides a vast and unique research resource. The collections consist of every kind of advertising and public relations material, including original artwork, posters, point of sale promotions, brochures, proofs, press and magazine cuttings, complete consumer magazines, direct mail, photographs, transparencies, audio and video tapes,
Parody Ads - A Gallery of Parody Ads
Reclame Aresenaal - Dutch advertising collection site - museum of old ads combined with new articles.
Tic Toc Toys - Crazy ad galleries, kids food packaging, cartoon charachters and animated 1950's ads in this retro collection.
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