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1. Season eatings

A funny play on words with simple illustrations, the choice of colors is quite audacious and works surprisingly well. Via Cranky Pressman on Flickr.

2. Italy, minus the flight

A good postcard for d capo café. The black and white photo creates an atmosphere and allows for the logo to pop out in style. Via We Are All Connect on Behance.

3. Poplarville set

Postcards created for the city of Poplarville, Mississipi. Some nice illustrations and illustrated typography. Via Kyle White design.

4. Get a Life!

Postcard and poster created for a series of seminars on career and skills. Via Tim Hansen on Behance.

5. Borsalino

An oldie but a goodie, Borsalino postcard by Max Huber. Via FFFFOUND.

6. Greetings from Radio

Radio studio created a set of very cool self-promotional postcards. Via Radio.

7. Ask Graham

Just ask him, Graham can do it for you. Ask Graham is a gardening & maintenance business, and he got some pretty cool promotional postcards. Via Miriam McWilliam on Behance.

8. Tomomi

Postcards, part of Tomomi’s branding effort. Via Are We Designers on Behance.

9. Tosho

A pixelated take on Hokusai’s great wave for Tosho. Via Anton Kostenko on Behance.

10. Medina Azahara

Gorgeous line art for this Tea Saloon postcard. Via Alex Verdaguer on Behance.

How about you? Do you have other great examples of postcard printing?

Over 4 months, there were 1142 submissions from 80 countries, among which 370 finalists were chosen. In this post you can see the 3 winners, and a few selected posters. For more posters, check out this post on graphicart-news.com.

1st Place: Alon Braier

2nd Place: Zafer Lehimler

3rd Place: Rosario Nocera

The famous stock image company has decided to redefine the way it watermarks its pictures. With this new kind of elegant watermark, Getty Images credits the author of the photo, and gives a short URL to let people who are interested by the image go to the page to check it out.

One may think that it’s just a small detail, but for a stock photo company, this kind of change can have a huge impact.

Monsters, Inc. poster by Tom Whalen. Via Mondo Archive.

Pantone pillows. Via Meninos.

Jules Verne treasure hunters illustration by Peter P. Plasencia. Via Flickr.

“Why they cried”, gorgeous book cover. Via Lookwork.

ShopMain logo. Via Flickr.

“Q”, from the Daily Drop Cap project. Via Dailydropcap.

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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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