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Tips for Billboard Printing and Other Ads
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Mark Etinger
You could spend hours at the drawing board making the perfect advertisement. You could save yourself some frustration and anxiety if you walk into the project with a focus. There are elemental principles for an effective and appropriate print advertisement. When you are designing for large format banners or billboards, you need to understand that the consumers viewing them have a lot of information to process. Design to highlight product identification and message comprehension. Chances are that the average passers-by are going to glance up at your advertisement, ponder it for a minute, and then continue about their busy bee bustling day. Strategically you want them to process as much as possible in the brief time you do attract them. In order to do this remember these few basic rules:1. Your product or service should be easily noticed. 2. Your message should be concise and clear. 3. The backgrounds should remain simple so that imagery grabs attention. 4. The whole ad should be cohesive and clever, not disjointed with confusing elements. 5. Less is always more. Avoid clutter.First thing is first. Does your campaign clearly demonstrate the benefits of your product or service? The catchphrase should be a brief summary of what you want the consumer to know about your company or what you sell. Product identification means the consumer will easily register what it is you want them to have. The message is conveyed through images and font. The main focus should always gravitate to this identification. Use clean, legible text (there is a reason Helvetica rose to fame). You can highlight or bold the important words or letters in different colors so the eyes read it in a specific order. Our eyes are drawn to the most unique aspects. That is why we have a natural tendency to read these highlighted or bold words first and then go back and read the whole message in the proper order. The images should be immediately impactful and daring. That is why the background should be subtle, so the overall ad is not busy. Too much clutter and the viewer will be overwhelmed. It's better to have one or two "WOW" moments than so many that the viewer gets a headache. The cliché "less is more" always applies. Better to have one main feature with that special je ne sais quoi than five useless distractions.As for comprehension's sake, please, keep the ad cohesive. Nothing is worse than to send an ad for billboard printing or vinyl banner printing that is a sloppy mess of design choices. If one element is modern, the entire thing should be modern. Only play with symmetry when it makes sense. Also, make sure the positive and negative spaces work in tandem and don't play mind games.
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