This campaign from Citrine Jewelry really leaps off the screen. We love how the large product images break out of the main column. It really adds interest and draws your eye.

The colors are also nice and neutral, in keeping with their website, and the elegant typography ensures the e-mail still looks great even with images off.

Studiobanks is behind this excellent newsletter designed for Blynk Organic. The branding is consistent with their website, but the design has been simplified to be more suited to the restrictions of e-mail.

The large amount of whitespace really lets the content stand out on its own, and we think it works really well with the organic theme.

The footer is a nice final touch, and really ties the whole newsletter together. Overall a very well executed design.

Boy, does this campaign from Enjoy Ticino make our mouths water. The colorful edibles really pop off the monochromatic layout. The design looks very sharp, and we love how the photos and logos are combined to separate the three sections of the email.

While most attention is drawn to the menus, the contact info and addresses are easily available in the right column. An impressively sharp and timely email.

This newsletter for Batlow, does a good job of organizing a decent amount of content without sacrificing design aesthetics.

The earthy tones and wood textures combine with the bright, chirpy colors of the logo and text to create an elegant, well-structured newsletter design. There are some nice image headings and buttons throughout the design, but these do not need to be relied upon, as the email is still legible when images are turned off.

This email for Stiernholm Consulting grabbed our attention because it is neatly designed and simple. A recipient can easily scan over the design and read from top to bottom without overwhelming design elements or heavy content getting in the way.

The green and gray color scheme is soothing on the eye and the large buttons and definitely obvious and clickable.

Percept is a graphic design agency based in Sydney. Their new newsletter design is bright, bold and beautiful.

The visually-driven, energetic style is a wash of strong colors, irregular angles and upside-down words. Text colors have been carefully chosen to harmonize with the showcased designs, which are vibrantly propelled forward in contrast with the neutral, gray background.

This e-mail, from the guys at Show Offs, combines bold colours and fun curves to make a really unusual and eye-catching campaign.

The striking orange really grabs your attention, while the illustration of the boy on a bike adds a playful touch. The content is easily scannable, and the large amount of HTML text is really cool to see. Overall a very well executed campaign which, as a design agency, reflects well on their services.

This fresh and fun campaign, designed by the guys at Nerdverk, combines playful illustrations with beautiful typography (did you ever think Arial could look this stunning?).

The casual feel, and the lovely, soft colors, are very becoming for Treehouse, who sell children’s clothing and toys. Overall, this is a well executed design, which doesn’t rely on images being displayed for any of the main content.

We like the look of the prominent “Share with friends!” section towards the bottom, and a final nice touch is the treehouse icon next to the the business address in the footer.

An email is a great way to announce a new website. And if the website you’re launching happens to be for your creative agency, you’ll want to do it in style.

This beautifully simple announcement, created internally at Seamless Creative, gets straight to the point, and should make you just curious enough to click through. We love the structure of this one, particularly the three-line intro followed by a screenshot of the new website.

The campaign gives some nice hints on the look you’ll find on the website, but has a simplified approach more suitable for email. After checking out their email, make sure you pay their blog a visit for some extra design inspiration.

Here’s a fanciful email from Portland, Oregon based illustrator Amy Ruppel. The original art in the email capture her whimsical style and we love the cozy feel to the content, a great way to announce a sale of her wonderful little wax paintings.

It all left us with a feeling of wanting to see more, and a big bonus that it still works great with images off. Our only complaint is the large-ish gap between the content and the unsubscribe message, which we’d advise to close a bit to avoid confusion or complaints with her recipients.

This design is straightforward but executed so beautifully. The brightness and warmth of the oranges in each of the graphics really pop them out from the lovely charcoal grey gradient background and tie the whole thing together.

The content of the email is nicely scannable: it’s short, to-the-point; getting its message across quickly and easily. Altogether a nicely designed email from every aspect. 

If you have been around in the web design and development industry for a while, you’ve probably heard of Dan Benjamin and Hivelogic. This is Dan’s very first Hivelogic newsletter, and it has the same clean, structured and appealing style that his web work has always shown.

The wordmark in the logo is actual HTML text for this email, which is a nice touch given that on the website it is an image. We appreciated the tone of the newsletter too, right down to the “your internet pal” closer. Make sure to check out his sweet new t-shirts to cover your nerdy nakedness.

We enjoyed the look of this launch announcement for the iPhone application Parking App. Although it is a big image header, which we’d typically stay away from, there is plenty of text content to follow, and a screenshot is pretty important in this market.

The designers haven’t tried to get too fancy in an email, just to be clear and to get the benefits out and obvious. That is a good sign for the usability of their applications too. 

AAF Charlotte is “a consortium of like-minded creative folks that are dedicated to advertising excellence in and around Charlotte”. This newsletter doesn’t have the flashiest design or most unique layout, but what it does have is impact and readability.

The very simple full width header is very recognisable in an inbox, and we always love a clear and obvious unsubscribe link which shows confidence in your content to maintain interest. It may not be deliberate, but the top image of the curled iron seems to tie very nicely into the brackets surrounding the titles. That gives a real cohesion to the whole page.

Perhaps it's the high contrast black and white coloring, or maybe the bright rainbow in the header, possibly even the giant image of a playful one eyed monster. Whatever it is, something about this design jumped out at us and made us take a longer look.

We really loved the use of high contrasting colors, the black and white backgrounds with splashes of green in the images and the headings. The images used give everything a fun playful feel, but even with images off everything stays highly readable and still slickly designed. The unsubscribe link and text at the bottom is another great touch. Nicely casual with the understanding that people may want to unsubscribe and letting them know how they can easily resubscribe again in the future if they so choose.

As always, though, we would suggest watching out for those URLs used as link text to avoid phishing warnings and we'd also recommend converting the headings to plain text rather than images. It might lose a tiny bit of the playfulness of the design but it will add a bit more to the overall readability with images turned off.

An elegant looking invitation for an honorable man. The Bradman Foundation have used a timeless design style for this invitation to their upcoming Gala Dinner 2009. The classic black and white design adds to the prestigious nature of the event whilst the orientation is intriguingly vertical; utilizing an historical image of Sir Don on the left with a long, narrow column of text on the right.

Photographer Catherine Hall approaches her newsletter as if it were her journal. There is plenty of emotion delivered in the email’s content - both via the copy and the stunning photography. The tone is continued right down to the unsubscribe link at the bottom, where Catherine relates subscribing to the newsletter as to partake in my image adventures.

The simple, clean layout is uncluttered and communicates the photographer’s message clearly, and doesn’t completely rely on the imagery, which is rare for photographers emails.

Simple and smart, this newsletter communicates clearly the latest "digital discoveries" hand-picked by 20:20 London.

The neatly ordered, color thumbnails stand out from the black and white template, inviting the reader to click through for more information. The design has plenty of breathing space and the header, although a large image, is bold and eye-catching, suggesting the creative qualities of the newlsetter’s content.

These kinds of emails are awfully easy to code as a single image and it’s always nice to see when that’s resisted. Icon Films has designed a nice looking, properly coded email that is easy to read and as a film lover myself, would definitely be interested in attending.

Easy to find contact, address and event details make this email useful and easy to navigate.

This newsletter by 37Signals is a great example of cross promoting your other services along with new ways to use it. A simple design with a clear purpose, it goes on to share a feature that you might not normally use, and points out new extras. This newsletter is uncomplicated and would get the message across with images disabled.

This is a fine example of the new direction of 37signals visual design, and a smart use of email marketing.