Be creative

That’s the most important for sure, stickers marketing is quite hard and you’ll have to be creative to be efficient. An image is worth a thousand words, so I suggest you take a look at this article on Creative Guerilla Marketing.

Make the message short

On a sticker, your message should be short and must be read in a second. People will not waste their time reading five lines of text on a sticker, you should know it. Sometimes just your logo is enough, other times you should

Place it well

Don’t rely on your customers and friends only to place your stickers, place some yourself. For the stickers you go place, try to chose spots that make it unmissable, but don’t look like you are invading the public space either.

Go with die cuts stickers

Die cuts stickers will obviously get much more attention than their square, round, or rectangle boring counterparts. Die cut stickers let you be creative and allow you to create stickers with any shape you want.

Size it right

Think about who will use your stickers. Are they geeks? Bikers? Fifty years old moms? In each case, a specific size would be more appropriate than another. Think thoughtfully about which size would be more suitable for your stickers.

Let’s take for instance, the success of Facebook as a social networking site. In a span of six years, it has gathered 901 million users around the globe. Facebook users no longer need to sign in for a tutorial to use it. By logic and instinct, a new user can easily adapt to its environment without the frequency of clicking the Help menu.

This explains how important it is that your website design should be user-friendly. You may not be as instantly astounding like Facebook but at least, you get to share your thoughts to a majority of online users. And one step is to assure that your visitors can navigate thru your site easily.

Using navigation menus help divide your website into pages with their own purpose. Menus should be simple enough to understand but creatively designed to make it more appealing. Here are some creative navigation menus based in CSS+Javascript and Flash. These are all formatted to suit your website’s needs.

1. CSS-Based Navigation Menus

These are menus simply formatted through CSS codes so that it can easily adjust some browser discrepancies or updates.

2. Javascript-Based Navigation Menus

These navigation menus employed both CSS and Javascript to create some edginess and innovation in the design. The hover effect is also pretty popular in this batch as well as slide navigation menus.

3. Flash-Based Navigation Menus

If you still want to put some eccentricity in your designs, Flash would be a good answer for you. Although it is not as easily adaptable as CSS, but you can create sophisticated but eccentric designs by means of Flash. It has a vast extension of options for innovative navigation techniques for the unusual and quirky nature of your website.

4. Vertical Navigation

It is also one of the unusual layouts for navigation. It can be based on any programming software but typically vertical navigation layouts encourage vertical movement among pages to accommodate multiple pages onto just one.

5. Sidebar Menus

Sidebars are quite common to encounter in most informative websites. It is commonly used to house links of previous narrative, video or blog entries. Sidebars are useful in maximizing screen space while increasing functionality. It can be tied up with the use of ordinary horizontal menus at the top for more options.

About the author: Vincent Sevilla is a professional graphic designer and a marketing consultant for You The Designer. The leading source of design news, tips, and tutorials and inspirational graphic designs

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1. The classic business card

If you don’t have any creative idea, go with this one. It has a standard format, all the information needed, and hey… you can even design it well if you want. In our example, the Med Traveler Club’s card is quite average, but made attractive by the use of nice paper and letterpress printing.

2. The wild-format business card

Some designers like to play with different formats for business cards. Some go with a huge folded format that turns the card into a small brochure, others prefer to go tiny. Either way, it can be a good way to get your card noticed when you give it, but you should also think about how people will store your card. Use cutting wisely and you could create a business card as cool as Franco Caligiuri’s business card.

3. The social networker’s business card

A phone number? What would you do with it anyway? Call me? Come one… The social networker’s card reflects his communicating habits. Some will forget about all the traditional contact ways like the address or the phone number (let’s not talk about fax please, it would be embarrassing). The online geek will rather add URLs of his Twitter account, Facebook page, or share his IM info on the card.

In the following image you can see a fine example of a minimalist social networker’s business card.

4. The gadget business card

Not the easiest cards to create, but making a card that can be transformed into something definitely makes an impression when you give it out. You can try to be creative and you’ll get noticed for sure, why not get some inspiration from this previous post on Designer Daily?

The creative business card

5. The typographic business card

One could argue that all business cards are typographic, which is true, but I’m talking here about business cards that specifically use typography to look cool. Creating a typographic business card can be very fun for any graphic designer.

These example cards are very well designed and excellent examples of business card printing.

This cute little ghost will adapt to your hot pans in an awesome way, just smash him down and he turns into a pad. Via Designboom.

Probably the coolest brush packaging you’ll ever see. It allows to pack to brushes in one package with style. Unfortunately, it is just a student project created by Simon Laliberté, a student from the University of Quebec in Montreal.

Octo’s garden logo, via Logopond.

Bear illustration, via Little Chien.

London’s beauty photographed into puddles, via My Modern Met.

Cool typographic ad, via Design you trust.

Michi vinyl toy by Amaury Lemal, via Behance.

Amazing play kitchen, via Fanny and Alexander.

No really impressive posters there, but it’s interesting to see what the posters for the movies in competition for the Cannes festival look like.

Pantone has launched recently its “plus” series, adding 336 new colors to its collection. All new colors are available immediately, in both coated and uncoated formats. They will be added to “color bridge” and other pantone compendiums, as well as the ‘capsure’ and ‘my pantone’ mobile apps, by june 2012. Via Designboom.