Desktop Create: 2009
Designed by Niche Media
We quite liked the strong, primary-colored design approach to this invitation for Desktop Magazine’s coveted Create Awards ‘09. It’s bold, it’s cool and would have definitely appealed to Desktop’s subscribers when it landed in their inboxes.
Being constructed mostly of text, the design is sturdy and compatible across a range of email clients. There are a couple of images that finish off the design, so a webversion link is smartly included at the top of the email incase there is trouble loading. An overall nice design.
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5 Comments
Michael Thomas
September 11, 2009 6:18pm
The use of red, blue, black and white is a nice use of the colours, I agree with you that the images do finish off the design well, I think the use of benday dots are a nice touch.
Jessamyn Miller
September 12, 2009 1:42am
I wouldn’t want swear words in my inbox. Even if they were bleeped out!
Jordan Hsu
September 12, 2009 2:10pm
It’s great how the email resembles a poster or advertisement, rather than a standard newsletter look and feel.
Rodney Riley
September 13, 2009 8:28am
Personally speaking I like it - the poster like design is refreshing and it doesn’t overuse images. The language is strong but as long as the list is well targeted I doubt many people being bothered at all.
The blue,red, black and white colour scheme works very well and finishes off the design nicely.
Ellyanna
August 22, 2011 12:25am
I can’t beelive you’re not playing with me—that was so helpful.