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Email design inspiration time

Posted by Travis Bell on May 12, 2008

The collection of great gallery entries continues to grow! If you're having design block, consider browsing through the gallery for ideas and inspiration. Subscribe to the email design gallery's RSS feed to see them all....

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Email design inspiration time

Posted by Mathew Patterson on March 20, 2008

The collection of great gallery entries keeps growing. Use them for inspiration when you need to spark an idea for your next design. Subscribe to the email design gallery's RSS feed to see them all....

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More HTML email design inspiration

Posted by Mathew Patterson on October 18, 2007

There's a ton of different ways to approach an HTML email design, and we've added a few more great examples recently. If you need some inspiration, check them out! See every new entry on the email design gallery's RSS feed....

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Christmas emails are almost upon us

Posted by Mathew Patterson on October 10, 2007

No doubt your clients will be reminding you of this shortly, but the time for those seasonal promotion emails, thank you notes and last minute offers is marching towards us like an army of Santas.For the last couple of years we have run a Christmas email competition showcasing some...

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Email eye candy

Posted by Mathew Patterson on August 17, 2007

Here's some more evidence for the great and growing depth of design talent working with email newsletters. The latest few take the total to over 150 different designs. Subscribe to the gallery's RSS feed to keep up to date as the list grows....

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Recent designs from Campaign Monitor users

Posted by Mathew Patterson on July 12, 2007

The gallery of great designs by Campaign Monitor users continues to expand, showcasing lots of different email design approaches for your inspiration. Follow the gallery's RSS feed and don't forget to check out our new free base templates....

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Great new gallery entries

Posted by Mathew Patterson on June 1, 2007

We're showcasing a diversity of subjects with our recent gallery entries - commercial packaging, a winery and open source software - but they're all great email designs. Don't forget to subscribe to the gallery's own RSS feed to be notified when we add new entries....

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Fresh new gallery entries

Posted by Mathew Patterson on May 11, 2007

We've been adding fantastic new entries to our design gallery recently, in a variety of different styles. We've also made it easy to browse the 20 most popular gallery entries; perfect for some instant inspiration. You can also subscribe to the gallery's own RSS feed to be notified when...

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If Cupid had email...

Posted by Mathew Patterson on February 14, 2007

Well it's Valentine's Day again (we'll pause here for all those people who forgot...we're in Australia; there might be enough time left for you to get to the shop). If you've seen enough chubby babies and puppies with red ribbon bows to get you through the rest of the year,...

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The email design gallery grows up

Posted by David Greiner on January 19, 2007

Every few days for the last 2 years we've been showcasing the amazing email designs you guys have been producing and sending through Campaign Monitor. This gallery has now grown to well over 100 entries and was really starting to outgrow the current blog format. Because of this, we've been...

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Gallery: Fresh Updates

Posted by Mathew Patterson on January 9, 2007

Balancing creativity and informality with readability, this entry is from Dave Glass of Fresh. We really enjoy the friendly feel created by the hand drawn elements and photography. At the same time, the structure holds together with consistent alignment and it remains easy to scan and read. Although the headings...

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The best Christmas emails of 2006 - winners announced

Posted by Mathew Patterson on January 4, 2007

Back in November we posted about our search for this years best Christmas emails. We've been checking out all the fantastic email campaigns, and we've got 60,000 email credits to give away. This year we again saw the full range of Christmas and holiday emails, from well written plain text...

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Gallery: Aurora Christmas Collection

Posted by Mathew Patterson on January 2, 2007

This gallery entry for Aurora Spa Retreat is all about focus and consistency. The layout is simple and clear, a single column design that would work well even without the images. We love the way the template is designed specifically for the products it is advertising - taking colors...

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Gallery: Buyolympia.com Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on December 18, 2006

If you are looking for something a little bit different for your email template, you'll enjoy this design for buyolympia.com, a 2 person provider of all kinds of interesting things from Olympia, Washington. The two column layout is busier than the typical newsletter, and almost feels chaotic, but it suits...

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Gallery: La Cloche Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on December 14, 2006

Today we're highlighting a very slick monthly newsletter for New Zealand based La Cloche French Delicatessen. This is no average deli either, with Wellington's finest selection of wine, cheese, and fine French food on offer. The newsletter promotes any special upcoming events their customers might be interested in, such as...

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Gallery: Taylor Bowls Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on December 1, 2006

Today we're featuring a fantastic single column monthly newsletter called The Clubhouse for Taylor Bowls, a Glasgow based company specializing in lawn bowls gear. As opposed to simply promoting their products, The Clubhouse is packed with relevant and interesting content for their subscribers. This includes international competition updates, survey results,...

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Gallery: Varien Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on November 27, 2006

We're big fans of this extremely informative monthly email sent by Los Angeles based e-commerce solutions firm Varien. This email is a fantastic example of complimenting your promotional email with loads of useful content for both current and potential customers. As well as promoting some of their recent launches, the...

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Gallery: The Health Shopper

Posted by David Greiner on November 23, 2006

Today we're highlighting an information packed email newsletter for Vimo, a comparison shopping system for the healthcare industry. The designer, Kurt Stammberger, has done a great job packing in so much great content that's on topic and highly relevant to their subscribers. Just as importantly, the email is still quite...

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Gallery: University of Pittsburgh Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on November 21, 2006

On a lighter note after today's outage, we're highlighting a fantastic email design from the University of Pittsburgh put together by John Cooper. This is a fairly simple 2 column email design promoting news of interest and any upcoming events on the university calendar. The designer has used different colors...

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Gallery: Thrive Africa

Posted by David Greiner on November 20, 2006

David Ditges has been at it again, this time with another stellar email newsletter design for South Africa based Thrive Africa. While the newsletter itself is bursting with great content, the top notch design still makes the email very easy to read. Each section of the newsletter is clearly separated...

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Gallery: Ballet Memphis Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on November 16, 2006

Today we're highlighting a nice looking, 2 column email design for Ballet Memphis by Nokturnal Studio. Importantly, the design of the email newsletter is extremely consistent with the Ballet Memphis web site, making it instantly recognizable to web site regulars. I like the look and feel of the "Season at...

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Gallery: Kraftvaerk Update

Posted by David Greiner on November 14, 2006

This simple, clean email design sent for Denmark based Kraftvaerk caught our attention recently. While the simple design looks great, today I want to focus on the email's great use of a liquid width layout. At least 90% of the campaigns we deliver every day use a fixed width design,...

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Gallery: Rabbit Mountain Almanac

Posted by David Greiner on November 10, 2006

Today we're featuring a very attractive email design for The Rabbit Mountain Almanac, a weekly digest of the latest happenings around Centre County, Pennsylvania. We love the old-school style of the email, from the name to the overall style and subtle decorative elements. The positioning of the table of contents...

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Gallery: YuppieChef Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on November 2, 2006

We were instant fans of this great looking monthly newsletter sent for YuppieChef, a South African based cooking tool store. The execution of this newsletter is absolutely top notch. From the design itself through to the content and import elements like permission reminders and send to a friend promotions, they...

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Gallery: Halloween Special

Posted by David Greiner on October 31, 2006

We couldn't resist getting into the spirit of things today by featuring this Halloween inspired email newsletter sent by South Africa based Glasshouse Multimedia. The Halloween theme is carried throughout the entire newsletter, from the almost 3D looking header to the photo frames around their new team members and the...

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Gallery: Word Harvest Mission News

Posted by David Greiner on October 30, 2006

Today we're highlighting a very nice looking email invitation sent on behalf of World Harvest Mission. This beauty is entirely CSS based, and just like Mark Wyner's sample email, degrades gracefully to a nicely formatted rich text email in those email environments with less CSS support, such as Gmail. The...

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Gallery: Anderson Illustration Associates

Posted by David Greiner on October 23, 2006

We instantly loved this quarterly newsletter design for Wisconsin based Anderson Illustration Associates. As well as looking fantastic, the design also does a great job of squeezing in many of the essentials, including: A reminder to add their sending address to the recipient's address book to improve deliverability and ensure...

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Gallery: NZlive.com Newsletter

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Today we're featuring an impressive inaugural newsletter design for the equally impressive NZLive.com, a directory showcasing upcoming cultural events in New Zealand. The email introduces the actual concept of the new web site, as well as highlighting a number of upcoming events. The simple design is also consistent with the...

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Gallery: Trigg-Smith Architects

Posted by David Greiner on October 19, 2006

We loved the style of this smooth looking newsletter for Hawaiian based Trigg-Smith Architects. The combination of the wood grain background, earthy tones and great photography make this newsletter a real treat for the eyes. The email itself highlights great looking samples from the company's portfolio and outlines what the...

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Gallery: A Better Tomorrow Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on October 13, 2006

This very cool looking monthly email newsletter sent by Düsseldorf based A better tomorrow caught our eye recently. The simple, clean design looks fantastic and also makes the email very easy to scan for the different t-shirt designs that might grab their readers attention. Some of the text is image...

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Gallery: Tucson Downtown Alliance

Posted by David Greiner on October 9, 2006

Today we're featuring a great looking and cleverly built email newsletter from the master himself, Mark Wyner. Designed for the Tucson Downtown Alliance, the email not only looks great, but it also includes a number of notable features under the hood. The table-less email is formatted completely via CSS and...

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Gallery: Walking on Water

Posted by David Greiner on October 5, 2006

We instantly liked this great looking monthly newsletter sent by non-profit Walking on Water. This is a great example of a completely CSS based email that looks fantastic in the majority of email environments and degrades gracefully in those environments with less CSS support, such as Gmail. We loved the...

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Gallery: Archer Center Spotlight

Posted by David Greiner on October 3, 2006

We loved this very clean looking monthly newsletter for the University of Texas System Archer Center. Aside from the small text size, the email is very easy to read and scan through each section of content. We also liked the prominent placement of the address book reminder under the Stay...

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Gallery: Ma.gnolia Monthly

Posted by David Greiner on September 25, 2006

This great looking and extremely simple newsletter design stood out from the pack recently. Sent for the popular social bookmarking application Ma.gnolia, it keeps their users in the loop on recent updates, featured groups, interesting tags and useful tips. The simple layout is a refreshing change from the more layout/image...

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Gallery: Britton Creative Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on September 14, 2006

Today we're featuring another nice example of a simple monthly newsletter to keep your clients and subscribers in the loop. Designed by Britton Creative, the newsletter highlights a few projects recently completed by the firm. The clean, simple layout makes it super easy for their recipients to read and the...

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Gallery: Tonic Vision Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on September 11, 2006

Today we're showcasing a cool promotional email for the equally cool Tonic Vision, a London based moving image design firm. The email does a nice job of promoting their various services and highlights a number of recent projects and successes. The large, text based header also does a great job...

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Gallery: Remarkable Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on September 8, 2006

We loved the look and feel of this monthly newsletter sent for UK based PR and marketing firm Remarkable. The email design is nice and consistent with their existing web site and the horizontal news layout at the bottom of the email does a great job of packing a lot...

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Gallery: Gwarsh Brandmail

Posted by David Greiner on August 29, 2006

It's with a touch of nostalgia that we features this fantastic email design by Australian based Gwarsh. Just over 16 months ago another Gwarsh design was the second email we ever profiled in the gallery. Our biggest piece of feedback then was that too much of the important text was...

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Gallery: Cultural Care Au Pair Announcement

Posted by David Greiner on August 22, 2006

Today we're highlighting a great looking email announcement by Au Pair organization Cultural Care. While the layout is quite simple, it's the subtle decorative elements that we liked most. The link to the web-based version, unsubscribe message and the blue background frame the offer nicely. Although it should probably be...

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Gallery: Stateline Adobe Users Group Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on August 18, 2006

We loved the look of this monthly email newsletter sent by the Stateline Adobe User Group. The newsletter is loaded with useful content for their members, including product and book reviews, upcoming events and contents to win free software. We like the positioning and look and feel for the web...

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Gallery: Center for Houston's Future Invitation

Posted by David Greiner on August 17, 2006

Today we're highlighting a clean and simple email invitation sent by the Center for Houston's Future. This design looks great with or without images turned on and encourages a full viewing from any kind of preview pane. A great example of a simple, effective email based invite. Designer:  Danny Zevallos  |  See the...

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Gallery: Magnitude Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on August 15, 2006

We really dug this monthly email newsletter sent by UK based Magnitude. The design is a great combination of promotional material such as featured projects and client testimonials, along with a range of other interesting content their readers might be interested in. We especially loved the simple animated gif used...

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Gallery: The Berndt Group Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on August 11, 2006

Today we're highlighting an awesome looking monthly newsletter for Baltimore based web and brand development firm The Berndt Group. This a classic example of simple and elegant email newsletter design with a two column layout splitting the main article content from recent highlights at the firm. The colors, subtle shading...

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Gallery: In the Kitchen Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on August 10, 2006

We liked the simplicity in this monthly newsletter sent by California based Paulding & Company. While the email looks great, is consistent with their web site has minimal use of images, it's the great copy and personal tone of the email that I loved most. Many of use are so...

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Gallery: Tightsplease Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on August 9, 2006

Today we're also highlighting a cool fortnightly newsletter sent by Birmingham based Tightsplease. The email includes a number of product highlights, their latest specials and the chance to win a holiday. We liked the blue framing to visually separate each main section of the email. In a perfect world, the...

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Gallery: The Dish on Fish

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The Dish on Fish is a nice and simple monthly newsletter sent for the US National Fisheries Institute. The email contains a delicious sample recipe and some interesting seafood trivia and cooking tips perfect for their subscribers. Our only complaint is that the calls-to-action in the email, such as links...

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Gallery: Zeroing In

Posted by David Greiner on August 7, 2006

Who would have thought the monthly newsletter for a waste management board could look so good? This inaugural email design sent for the Waste Management Board of Western Australia is another great gallery example on getting the basics right. The link to a web version and table of contents are...

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Gallery: Lucky Oliver Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on August 2, 2006

We're definitely fans of this great looking monthly newsletter by LuckyOliver - a community of photographers, designers and artists who buy and sell photos. What a cool concept. The email design does so many things right, including the prominent in this issue summary at the top for preview panes, scannable...

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Gallery: Fantesca Spring Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on July 19, 2006

This great seasonal email newsletter from California based Fantesca Spring Estate and Winery was sent using Campaign Monitor recently. The design follows the classic 2 column approach to an email newsletter dividing the main stories of interest from supplementary content like events and other promotions. The newsletter copy also has...

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Gallery: About.com Interactive Report

Posted by David Greiner on July 14, 2006

We liked this report style email from About.com discussing the recent action on the site and other trends their recipients might be interested in. This design is the perfect candidate for adopting Mark Wyner's awesome technique to display a nicely formatted text-based headline when images are disabled - replaced with...

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Gallery: Creative Entrepreneurs Club Announcement

Posted by David Greiner on July 10, 2006

Today we're featuring a nice example an email announcement for the launch of the Glasgow based Creative Entrepreneurs Club. We especially liked the footer content that gives every recipient an explanation about how the CEC got their details and why they're contacting them. This is often the missing but all-important...

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Gallery: Olive Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on July 7, 2006

In our recent email design guidelines, we recommended trying to include a good overview of the contents of your email at the top and preferably top-left of your design. The Olive Press, by Texas based Olive Design is a perfect example of this technique. It doesn't matter if their recipients...

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Gallery: WWF Futuremakers

Posted by David Greiner on July 4, 2006

The great emails for great causes just keep on coming! Today we're featuring a monthly newsletter sent by WWF Australia called Futuremakers. The visual separation of each main section with a different background color makes the email very easy to scan. Subtle decorative elements such as the curved corners and...

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Gallery: The Frequency

Posted by David Greiner on June 30, 2006

We really enjoyed this email newsletter by New York based designer Armistead Booker. His email is loaded with great content and the design is really engaging. Perhaps our favorite bit was the great introduction and explanation at the top of his email explaining exactly why you're receiving his email, how...

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Gallery: Lloyd's News Centre Digest

Posted by David Greiner on June 28, 2006

Today we're featuring a nicely designed monthly newsletter for Lloyd's of London, the world's leading insurance market. The email design certainly gets all the basics right: A link to a web-based version of the email. The table of contents in the top left of the page so they always appear...

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Gallery: Recycle Now Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on June 22, 2006

We instantly loved this monthly newsletter by UK based Recycle Now. This is definitely one of the nicer looking emails I've seen in a while, especially for such a good cause. On top of looking great, the newsletter features loads of useful content. From tips, interesting recycling trivia, interactive games...

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Gallery: H&R Block Insight

Posted by David Greiner on June 16, 2006

We liked this great looking monthly email design for Canada's H&R Block. The layout makes the newsletter very easy to read and is a great example of a classic 2 column email newsletter design. If we were being picky, we'd probably recommend doing the article titles and header text using...

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Gallery: Tandems Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on June 7, 2006

We instantly loved this inaugural monthly newsletter sent by UK based JD Cycles, the place to go for tandem bicycles. The newsletter looks fantastic, using a consistent look and feel with the equally impressive web site. The email is well written and balances the promotion of their products with other...

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Gallery: Movero Technology Updates

Posted by David Greiner on May 29, 2006

This great looking update from Texas based Movero Technology snagged my attention recently. It's a simple, predominantly text-based newsletter announcing their reseller program. The colors look great and the makes the email very easy to scan. My only suggestion would have been to redo the header as a combination of...

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Gallery: FilmTreks Workshops Update

Posted by David Greiner on May 19, 2006

Today we're breaking away from the more image and design intensive emails and featuring a very simple rich text email design by FilmTreks. This approach certainly does away with any concerns about images being turned off and a mish mash of CSS support. I think it's a great reminder that...

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Gallery: Nomis Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on May 11, 2006

The design team behind Nomis have been at it again, this time with a fantastic looking monthly newsletter. We featured their launch email design a few months back and we're equally as impressed by their newsletter design. As well as promoting their own products, the newsletter also includes a competition,...

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Gallery: Antheny Kell Architects Quarterly

Posted by David Greiner on May 8, 2006

We liked this quarterly email newsletter sent by Minnesota based Ankeny Kell Architects. The newsletter looks great, but it's the engaging content that really shines. The issue not only includes interesting profiles on recent projects, each told from different perspectives, it also includes the thoughts of a member of their...

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Gallery: Digital Web Magazine Updates

Posted by David Greiner on April 25, 2006

The master of CSS based emails has struck again, this time with the recently launched HTML version of Digital Web Magazine's weekly newsletter. Following the design principles he discussed in a recent article, Mark's email design degrades gracefully in older email environments or those with poor CSS support. Mark also...

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Gallery: The Varietal

Posted by David Greiner on April 24, 2006

We loved this email newsletter sent by San Francisco's Ferry Building Marketplace recently. It does a great job of keeping their subscribers up to date on all the activities, promotions and upcoming events at the centre. The design is consistent with the Ferry Building web site, is well written and...

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Gallery: This Week In Denver

Posted by David Greiner on April 20, 2006

I've heard of people moving city for a new job or for a change of pace, but this has to be the first time I've wanted to move somewhere because of an email newsletter. This Week In Denver have been using Campaign Monitor to send their awesome weekly emails every...

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Gallery: Spoleto Festival Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on April 18, 2006

Today we're featuring a great looking email from Atlanta based Twinsparc for the 2006 Spoleto Festival. We liked this email for its simplicity, great supporting images and the fact that it's so easy to scan if you're in a hurry (and who isn't). The call-to-action to purchase tickets is also...

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Gallery: Soul Purpose E-Zine

Posted by David Greiner on April 11, 2006

The New Zealand based team from Catch Design have struck again, this time with a top notch email for youth culture magazine Soul Purpose. First and foremost, the email looks fantastic. The "This Issue" section makes it easy for recipient's to jump straight to an area that interests them. Its...

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Gallery: Needmore Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on April 5, 2006

Today's design gallery feature is a clean and simple monthly newsletter from Portland based Needmore Designs. The simple layout and large text makes the email super easy to read. The copy grabs your attention right from the opening paragraph and doesn't let go for the rest of the newsletter with...

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Gallery: Mom Advice Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on March 30, 2006

Today we're highlighting a great looking monthly newsletter sent by Mom Advice, a popular and useful resource for all the Moms of the world. The newsletter is simple - it does a few things and does them very well. Most importantly, the content is engaging and very well written. The...

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Gallery: Kiwiproperty.com Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on March 21, 2006

This was a great looking monthly email newsletter designed by New Zealand based Catch Design for Kiwiproperty.com. Most of use have seen plenty of real estate emails before, but this is certainly one the better presented examples that I've seen. The colors are great and the large font size used...

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Gallery: River City Church Newsletter

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Everyone at Campaign Monitor was a huge fan of this monthly newsletter sent for the River City Church by Jacksonville based Livingston & Partners. They seemed to have ticked every box in our recent design guidelines, including: Link to a web-based version of the email in the header. All important...

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Gallery: Samoset Resort Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on March 15, 2006

This great looking monthly email sent by Samoset Resort caught our eye as a great example of a newsletter that gets the message across no matter what email environment their recipient is using. I see a lot of designs go through Campaign Monitor that take the easy option of using...

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Gallery: Medifast eNews

Posted by David Greiner on March 13, 2006

We loved this tidy, well designed email newsletter from Medifast. The design is very simple, easy to read and because it's predominantly text based, will appear as intended for most recipients. Refreshingly, the unsubscribe and forward to a friend links are predominantly placed in the header of the design. Medifast...

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Gallery: n-focus Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on March 1, 2006

This great looking monthly newsletter from n-tara caught our eye recently. The content is very well laid out and all the important bits are text-based, so they'll always be easy to read. The "n-tara 9 list" in the right sidebar is a great example of turning a one-way newsletter into...

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Gallery: Teetonic Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on February 21, 2006

Today we're featuring a nice little email newsletter for teetonic, a Scotland based non-stop t-shirt design competition where you can rate and buy your favourites. The email highlights the most recent tees to be printed, includes some great offers and encourages their readers to head to the site and get...

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Gallery: Nomis Email Announcement

Posted by David Greiner on February 17, 2006

This great looking email announcement from Nomis caught our eye recently. The email was simple, looked great and contained a compelling offer for all those soccer... ummm, football fans out there. This campaign goes to show how effective a simple, attractive email campaign can be to build buzz and excitement...

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Gallery: ZURB Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on February 13, 2006

I'll admit it. I'm a huge fan of predominantly text-based HTML emails and probably give them a little too much weight when considering the designs we feature in this gallery. But given our recent design guidelines on using images in email, it's pretty easy to understand why. A perfect example...

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Gallery: Podcast Media Mixer Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on February 10, 2006

The Podcast Media Mixer is Radiotail's helpful monthly newsletter on all things podcasting. The email features loads of useful info for the budding podcaster. From show format ideas, business tips, answers to common questions and links to some popular podcasts. The newsletter pushes loads of useful content in a very...

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Gallery: The IconBuffet Hookup

Posted by David Greiner on February 8, 2006

We featured the impressive design skills of Firewheel Design a while back, but they've been at it again. This time it's a monthly newsletter for their extremely popular IconBuffet. Like the original design we featured, this one is predominantly text based and remains super easy to scan and read. The...

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Gallery: Beanstalk - Magic Beans Email Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on February 1, 2006

Beanstalk is the cleverly named monthly email newsletter for Magic Beans, a Massachusetts based baby gear and toy store. The email is very nicely designed and a snap to read. Most of the important stuff is text, so the email looks great even with images disabled. Instead of just flat...

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Gallery: Core77 Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on January 24, 2006

Today we're featuring a top notch newsletter for a top notch site. Core77 have been informing and inspiring industrial designers online since 1995. Their monthly newsletter looks fantastic and does a great job of promoting upcoming events, articles and other highlights from the Core77 site. This was Core77's first campaign...

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Gallery: MDDA Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on January 23, 2006

We were instant fans of this predominantly text-based email newsletter from the Manchester Digital Development Agency. Right off the bat they clearly explain why the recipient is receiving this email (always a good idea) and give them the opportunity to remove themselves if they're no longer interested. The opening paragraph...

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Gallery: Glasshouse Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on January 12, 2006

We liked this christmas themed email sent last month by South Africa based Glasshouse Multimedia. The email looks great, is consistent with their existing site and looks good even with images disabled. The newsletter even features some useful tips on designing emails. Now where did they get those from ;)...

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The best Christmas emails of 2005

Posted by David Greiner on January 9, 2006

We mentioned a while back that we'd been seeing some great Christmas card designs being sent through Campaign Monitor and that we'd be awarding 10,000 free email credits to the designer who put together the best card before Christmas. Since then, some of the coolest and most original Christmas emails...

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Gallery: WHEREmail Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on January 3, 2006

This monthly newsletter sent by Canada's Where magazine caught our eye because it encompasses many of the design best practices we've been encouraging recently. Not only does the email design still look fantastic with images disabled, it also promotes the contents of the email so it will be viewable in...

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Gallery: Connectpoint Focus

Posted by David Greiner on December 28, 2005

We loved this snappy monthly newsletter sent by Manchester based Connectpoint. It breaks all the rules, but still manages to suck you into finding out more about each of the featured stories. As you can imagine, the click-through rate for each of their newsletters is very high. My big suggestion...

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Gallery: Anders Plus Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on December 22, 2005

This great looking monthly newsletter for the UK's leading gardening employment supplier caught our eye recently. The newsletter features loads of great content, including the "Excuse of the Month", focusing on the best excuse they heard from a candidate trying to get out of work. To ensure a consistent experience...

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Gallery: Designer Shoes E-Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on December 20, 2005

When checking out campaigns to include our gallery, it's always a rare treat to find an email campaign that combines great design with top-notch content. There certainly have been exceptions to this trend, and the Designer Shoes newsletter is one of them. On top of promoting their gift certificates and...

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Gallery: beyond:30 Conference Invitation

Posted by David Greiner on December 8, 2005

Today we're featuring a nicely designed email invitation for the annual beyond:30 Conference being held in Perth, Australia in January 2006. The link to a web based version of the campaign is well placed and the colors and general look and feel of the email seem spot on. The designer's...

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Gallery: Outbreak Adventure Update

Posted by David Greiner on December 6, 2005

This monthly newsletter sent by Outbreak Adventure Holidays grabbed our attention recently. The email does a great job of keeping Outbreak's subscribers informed about new holidays, trivia, competitions and any bargains they might be interested in. Each bit of info has a link to the site to find out more,...

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Gallery: Berkeley Cinemas Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on November 27, 2005

All I can say is, I wish my local cinema sent out newsletters like this every week. Berkeley Cinemas, a New Zealand based chain of cinemas use Campaign Monitor to keep their thousands of members in the loop about what's showing, new movies that are coming up and special member...

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Gallery: Brasserie Bread

Posted by David Greiner on November 23, 2005

Ok ok, maybe I'm being a little biased here, but it's only so often we feature an email that we can actually take advantage of. Brasserie Bread, famous for their delicious breads and pastries have just opened shop not far from the Campaign Monitor offices. Luckily for us, their email...

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Gallery: Austin Advertising Federation

Posted by David Greiner on November 21, 2005

This tight little newsletter sent by the Austin Advertising Federation caught our eye recently. Like many of the other designs we've featured recently, this email gets a tick for great looks, scannability, and readability even with images disabled. Our favourite bit would have to be the unsubscribe link: "If you...

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Gallery: The Dish

Posted by David Greiner on November 18, 2005

A great design for a great cause, The Dish is the official monthly newsletter for Share Our Strength, the United States' leading anti-hunger organization. The simple layout is very easy to scan and works great even when images aren't displayed. Our only suggestion would be to make the bullet points...

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Gallery: Minnesota Realtors Resource Update

Posted by David Greiner on November 8, 2005

While this email newsletter from the Minnesota Association of Realtors looks great, it's not the main reason we're featuring it in the gallery today. What we really wanted to showcase was the welcome use of clear unsubscribe messages throughout the campaign. While the email is 100% permission based (like all...

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Gallery: Trident eUpdate

Posted by David Greiner on November 4, 2005

We're big fans of this monthly newsletter sent by the international design firm Trident Communications. Not only does the email look great, but it serves a number of purposes very well. By breaking the newsletter up into bite-sized chunks that are visually separated, subscribers can easily scan the email to...

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Gallery: Off-Press Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on October 31, 2005

This well designed email announcement recently grabbed our attention as a great way to introduce new team members to your customers/subscribers. Sent by Bradley Brown Design Group, a Pittsburgh-based graphic design firm, the email features quick interviews with each new team member. One really interesting touch was not only listing...

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Gallery: Fuse Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on October 27, 2005

Today we're featuring a great monthly newsletter design by Trusty and Company, an Ohio based design and advertising firm. The big, bold article titles are hard to miss and make the newsletter super easy to scan for the good stuff. On top of their own advice and articles, the newsletter...

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Gallery: Threadless Weekly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on October 6, 2005

We were over the moon when the institution that is Threadless starting using Campaign Monitor for their weekly updates (which we already subscribed to). For those new to the concept, Threadless is like an endless tee shirt competition where you can submit your own designs and buy some of the...

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Gallery: Wendy Bellissimo Announcements

Posted by David Greiner on September 30, 2005

We loved this great looking monthly email newsletter sent by designer, author and mother Wendy Bellissimo. The color palette, type and general design style are refreshingly consistent with the products being sold. The newsletter aims to keep customer up to date with the latest releases and it does just that,...

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Gallery: Via Alley Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on September 20, 2005

Via Alley is a brand new initiative aimed at igniting the creative spark in all of us. The site features a growing online gallery, unique store and forum - and they chose Campaign Monitor to send the best bits to their community each month. The newsletter design is unique but...

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Gallery: Welcome Works Launch Announcement

Posted by David Greiner on September 19, 2005

Nicely designed promotional email for California based Welcome Works. The header graphic nicely summarises what they're all about and remains consistent with their web site. The email also scales back to a clean rich text version with images turned off. The unsubscribe copy is well written and while our software...

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Gallery: KKCS Country Club Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on September 16, 2005

Today we're going all country and featuring a great looking weekly newsletter for US radio station KKCS. For starters, you really can't go past the denim background. Each of the main stories are concise, well written and easy to scan. On top of the high quality design, the newsletter also...

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Gallery: Lakewood Croquet News Headlines

Posted by David Greiner on September 8, 2005

I always had the impression the only requirement to play croquet was grey hair. Boy was I wrong! You know you're in for something different with a tagline of "Mallets plus morons equals mayhem". Follow that up with allegations of player sabotage, nasty rumours and stories about records being smashed...

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Gallery: Spoiltchild Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on August 30, 2005

We absolutely love this monthly newsletter sent by the talented folks at Dublin based Spoiltchild Design. Not only is the design absolutely gorgeous and easy to read, the newsletter also degrades gracefully in email environments less supportive of modern standards. Stop listening to me waffle on, go and check it...

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Gallery: Ribby Hall Village

Posted by David Greiner on August 16, 2005

Today we're featuring a great looking email campaign from the folks at UK based Connectpoint Advertising. The newsletter features all of the creative ingredients for a successful email. Short, concise text. Check. Bullet points where possible. Check. Clear call to action. Double check. Bundle all of this into a great...

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Gallery: The Showlist

Posted by David Greiner on August 1, 2005

We love the simple, elegant email newsletter designs that the Coudal Partners team have been sending through Campaign Monitor of late. Each issue is a great example of how professional AND easy to read an imageless and tableless email can look. Make sure you check out their studio and...

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Gallery: Mission to South Africa Monthly Updates

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Dave Ditges uses an email newsletter to keep his readers in the loop each month about his latest experiences as a missionary in South Africa. I like how Dave goes to extra lengths to encourage his recipients to add him to their address book by linking to a full...

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Gallery: The Columbus Museum of Art Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on July 14, 2005

The team from Grip Technology have been at it again, this time with a nice simple newsletter for The Columbus Museum of Art. The email avoids too much fluff and gets straight into what the audience is interested in - what's happening and when. The primary navigation on the web...

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Gallery: AirClic Mobile Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on July 11, 2005

Today we're featuring a nice looking corporate newsletter for software and mobile information services company Airclic. The newsletter balances articles, product updates, events and free downloads nicely. Of increasing importance these days, the newsletter is also very easy to read with images disabled. Listing the contents of the newsletter at...

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Gallery: Thrive Africa Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on July 8, 2005

With the G8 conference happening today, we thought it would be a great time to feature a nicely designed newsletter about a cause aimed at fighting poverty in southern Africa. The designer does a nice job of balancing the lead story with secondary items and upcoming events. The header design...

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Gallery: Inside 43215 Monthly Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on June 7, 2005

A great looking email newsletter design for keeping up with the latest downtown Columbus has to offer. I love the use of simple icons and color coding to differentiate each section of content. Although the newsletter is quite content heavy, this technique still makes it very easy to scan and...

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Gallery: Fancy a quicki?

Posted by David Greiner on May 19, 2005

A nicely designed email for one of the many smoothie bars that seem to be popping up everywhere these days (at least in Sydney anyway). A fluid design using the full width of the screen is used. We don't often see this technique in email design, but I expect to...

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Gallery: The MFN Insider

Posted by David Greiner on May 13, 2005

A nice example of a clean and simple corporate email newsletter. What can I say? We're suckers for clean text and rounded corners. The promo to download the PDF is done well and is a much better option than including the file as an attachment. We also like how the...

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Gallery: T-Bone eNewsletter

Posted by David Greiner on May 6, 2005

Another web design firm coming up with the goods for their own email newsletter, this time from Sydney based T-bone Productions. The design borrows heavily from their existing site, ensuring a consistent message to their customers and subscribers. We're big fans of the colours used and the large type in...

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Gallery: Massive Newsletter

Posted by David Greiner on May 2, 2005

Massive, a northern England based web development firm, do a great job of keeping their clients and subscribers in the loop. Their monthly newsletter includes loads of relevant articles and news that they might find interesting while at the same time promoting some of their recent work. This is a...

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Gallery: Feng Shui Newsletter

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Great looking monthly newsletter for H.G. Chissell, a nationally recognized Feng Shui practitioner. We found this newsletter extremely easy to read considering the amount of content being covered. The designer is also attracting traffic back to the web site by providing teaser content for each article. This also makes it...

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Gallery: ELSEWARES

Posted by David Greiner on April 27, 2005

Need an endless necklace, how about toilet paper with instructions? Elsewares is a unique catalog of interesting products from independent designers, and their email newsletter does a great job of showing off their latest and greatest. By removing any unwanted distractions and using large product images, the recipient can scan...

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Gallery: Firewheel Design

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A refreshingly simple text-based design from the always impressive folks at Firewheel Design that breaks away from the traditional multi-column format. By removing any distractions, the reader can dive straight into the content. This approach also means that it won't matter if the recipient has images turned off by default....

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Gallery: Gwarsh Newsletter

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Nice 2 column design promoting the latest work of the Sydney based design studio. The curved corners, subtle shadows and background gradients combine to provide a rich and easy to read email. It's amazing the difference a little attention to detail can make. Our only complaint, too much of the...

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Gallery: R.Bird Patterns

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We love the clean, minimal design in this email, especially the narrower than normal width. The large type for the introduction grabs the eye and the call to action effectively encourages the recipient to download the free report. The colors used also look great and R.BIRD provides a good explanation...

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Email Newsletter Design Gallery

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A couple of weeks ago we noticed a real lack of good online resources showcasing excellent email newsletter design. It seems you guys agreed, so today we take great pleasure in launching the Email Newsletter Design Gallery. Aimed at highlighting some of the great designs that pass through our software,...

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