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We present to you a simple and neat newsletter from Saelstrom Marketing. The Canadian web design and search engine marketing company have built a compact newsletter template that is pleasing on the eye, simple to read and fairly light on graphics.

We enjoyed this design from New Zealand based, Studio Alexander, for not only its clean layout, but its clever presentation of global technology content. Using engaging headings and clear links, the structure allows the reader to fancy their choice tidbit of techy news (much like a printed magazine). Although subtle, this design is very solid and does a great job of reaching its audience with copious amounts of content.

This clean and jam-packed email by Smokin Apps has really done a great job of introducing their hottest, top ten mobile applications. Font and color variations, well groomed sections and small images to captivate the eye, results in an easily read and organized piece. We really were drawn to their use of simple line borders and text to represent the button links. When images are tuned off, one can tell the thought the designers took to make sure essential information stayed put.

From 1543AD comes this excellent newsletter. We really like the use of pink against the dark background to highlight areas of importance, and the background image adds some extra interest in clients that support it. Also we like the grey content boxes which clearly separate the different sections and make it easy to scan.

One issue though is that some of the headings actually use images – we’d recommend using plain text for those headings as you could make the email much more readable when images are disabled without losing much visual impact when images are enabled.

This elegant email from Harkey Design uses a great mix of clean lines and white space to create a really stunning minimalist design. We love the beautiful mix of Georgia for headings and Lucida Grande for body copy.

Another nice looking section is the light grey box towards the bottom, again using clean lines as well as some contrast to draw attention but still match the minimalist approach used in the rest of the design.

This campaign from Te Ara is simply a nicely done email design, with good structure and well formatted text. We really like how it features different types of content, with each section presented in a suitable layout.

The main content blocks are separated by subtle horizontal lines. And mosaic-esque borders and darker background colors set the header and footer apart from the rest of the email.

Images are used quite sparingly, in a way that doesn’t depend on them for most of the content or layout to display properly.