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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.

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.

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. 

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.