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Marketing your business, product, project or services is now a somewhat more complex and involved activity than it was some years ago. The options have grown – it is no longer just a case of print work, newspapers (local or national), the odd magazine ad, perhaps local radio – yes, I am that old!

We now have before us – websites, social media all utilising design – stock photos, vector based imagery, video, audio – including music, as well as the basics of the written, be it just a plain and simple appeal and information or on to a whole story.

We can help with all of that and both here and via the newsletter – see below – we are looking to provide you with resources, links to information and offers of doing the work itself.

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This infographic looks at what’s trending in visual content marketing for 2017, according to a survey of 300 online marketers.

Source: The Hottest Visual Content Marketing Trends in 2017 [Infographic] | Social Media Today

Which of these design elements are you using to enhance your web experience and conversion? If you’re launching a new site or refreshing an existing site i. Marketing topic(s):Website design. Advice by Expert commentator.

Source: The Top 10 essentials of a contemporary web design – Smart Insights Digital Marketing Advice

2018 is just around the corner. Are you ready for it?

Source: 4 Social Media Trends You Need to Know About for Next Year

Which tools and sites do you use to keep up with digital marketing? The idea for our new guide for marketing agencies ‘keeping up with digital’ came from a. Marketing topic(s):Marketing innovation. Advice by Expert commentator.

Source: Keeping up with Digital Marketing in 2017 | Smart Insights

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Small Business Week – 5 – Print and more

Print still has its uses especially for the small business. In the above presentation/e-book you will find what I call the ‘souvenir principle’ explained. Being able to take something material, physical, away with you is a useful reminder of a business, its services and how to contact them or visit their store. Business cards are the obvious example of this. They remain in use constantly these days. It is almost the same for brochures, leaflets and catalogues.

Laptop Folded Business Card Template – Black Edition — Inspired by our original MacBook Pro Laptop Business Card: http://www.graphicdome.com

Source: Laptop Business Card Black Edition ~ Business Card Templates on Creative Market

Creative and modern designs, different styles and shapes, multiple color variations and unlimited layout possibilities is just what makes

Source: Business Card Bundle 50 designs ~ Business Card Templates on Creative Market

It is obviously the case that the design of your business card needs to reflect your brand – it needs to be a real example of you and the business you are running. Here are a few bundles and examples of various styles of business card to make it easier to choose properly.

Buy and sell handcrafted, mousemade design content like vector patterns, icons, photoshop brushes, fonts and more at Creative Market.

Source: 100 Massive Business Card Bundle ~ Business Card Templates on Creative Market

BIG BROCHURES BUNDLE — This is super bundle of 14 best creative brochures templates for your great works. In this pack you can find

Source: Creative 14 Brochures Bundle ~ Brochure Templates on Creative Market

Get the client with the Rivington Pitch Pack, a pack including 7x Adobe Indesign templates to cover your client interactions from

Source: Rivington Pitch Pack ~ Brochure Templates on Creative Market

Get the client with the Sofia Pitch Pack, a pack including 7x Adobe Indesign templates to cover your client interactions from the

Source: Sofia Pitch Pack ~ Brochure Templates on Creative Market

These are just a few possible choices. Again the style and content needs to reflect your business. It needs to say something about you.

You can find a few design ideas in the Elements series of presentations here.

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… and because it’s friday here are a few other bargains and useful resources:

94% OFF / 2350+ GRAPHIC DESIGN ELEMENTS — In this bundle more than 2350+ different items watercolors, fonts, patterns and objects. It’s 44

Source: 2350+ Graphic Design Elements ~ Illustrations on Creative Market

68 CREATIVE HANDCRAFTED FONTS + 230 HIGH QUALITY TEXTURES & LOTS OF EXTRAS — EXTENDED USE LICENSE INCLUDED!! — Hey guys! I’m super

Source: Font & Texture Bundle – 93% Off ~ Fonts on Creative Market

HOT SUMMER STUFF COLLECTION is a perfect bundle to your design collection. Incredible deal with 85% OFF With this set you can create a

Source: 85% OFF PACK with Extended License ~ Display Fonts on Creative Market

*You will not need to buy another pack in your life, after buy “The Final Bundle” All the updates (New Presentations added) will

Source: The Final Bundle | 31 Presentations ~ Presentation Templates on Creative Market

Have Heart is a set of 2 hand-made marker pen fonts, designed to combine perfectly and allow you to create stunning hand-lettering quickly

Source: Have Heart ~ Script Fonts on Creative Market

 

Small Business Week – 4 – Digital Publishing

Here is another useful option to add to your small business armoury. Creating promotional, explanatory and introductory materials for print is one thing, add to that the same or similar documents available for download or to send via e-mail and you have added further firepower. Such documents can be uploaded to all sorts of sites including your own, or adding the option for people to provide an e-mail address so that you can send such to them. The documents can also be made available in a variety of formats, not just pdf. If you wish ask F4mmedia for help. Take a look at ‘The Souvenir Principle’ available online via Slideshare and Scribd, the principle is the same be it print or digital. These documents are something people can take away with them, in a manner of words, and have them at their fingertips for later viewing.

Indesign Magazine Template FULL PREVIEW HERE : This A4 modern multipurpose Magazine template consist 34 unique pages, easy to edit even for

Source: Indesign Magazine Template #1 ~ Magazine Templates on Creative Market

This is a professional Corporate and Business brochure that can be used for any type of industry. The modern corporate colour theme and

Source: Brochure Template InDesign 03 ~ Brochure Templates on Creative Market

This is a Business Proposal templete created using InDesign CS4 – CS6 . The file is completely editable, all of the fonts used are free and

Source: Indesign Proposal Template ~ Brochure Templates on Creative Market

This premade ebook design is great for all you DIYers that need a professional touch on your opt-in or ebook. This is a great cost effective

Source: Enchanted Indesign Ebook Template ~ Presentation Templates on Creative Market

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Premium free font available each week exclusively from Font Bundles Grab your free fonts for a limited time only

Source: Free Font of The Week | Font Bundles

Design week – resources, ideas …

The week starts here with a whole new set of resources and ideas. If you are going to put something out there it is useful to add to the whole mix a branding presentation that says something more – about you, what you are offering. The right design, something that fits and extends the whole idea, the whole presentation speaks a thousand words. Making awrong design decision says just as much but in the opposite way.

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Start here with a useful collection of fonts

Buy and sell handcrafted, mousemade design content like vector patterns, icons, photoshop brushes, fonts and more at Creative Market.

Source: Free Goods Of The Week ~ Creative Market

All the hottest web design trends of 2016 explained. See dozens of visual case studies that reveal the methods behind the eye candy.

Source: Web Design Trends 2016: The Definitive Guide

Source: Dealjumbo.com — Discounted design bundles with extended license! | Only Best Sellers – Mega Bundle! vol.15

Originally published by Five Simple Steps in 2013, my Pocket Guide to Combining Typefaces has sold thousands of copies, been used in college curricula, and been cited in conference talks by industr…

Source: The Typekit Blog | Combining Typefaces: Free guide to great typography

Watercolour week – 3 – fonts, backgrounds, actions, more – Resources

watercweek2a In all of this there is a lot to see. Designing for your projects can be quite a task, especially given the rate at which design styles change. Getting just the right look for what you are trying to do and to present can be hard work. Watercolours give a sense of freshness, springtime, arts, crafts, the home, the kitchen or living room table where mum and kids are hard at work, or perhaps you are taking a moment just to play away with some brushes, their is that hobbyist feel as well. With the typography to boot, you get a feel of the casual, handwritten, with just a dash of the erratic but in a comforted manner, ink and brush, pen and marker. These fonts can be added to all sorts of scenes – generated scenes of a desk, a table at home, a workstation without the office background, something floral, countryside, fun, gentle fun – and a variety of textures – watercolour itself, papers with different feels, wood and more …callig1

There is a lot for you to look at here – we can only hope that these resources will give you some good ideas for what you have ahead. Have a good look round – and there is still more to come …

This is a taster set of floral and nature watercolor clipart prepared by the Corner Croft, painted by the watercolor […]

Source: Corner Croft Clipart – Free Design Resources

Achieve Amazing Watercolour Effects in Your Design Work With Ease! We’re so excited to introduce our totally massive watercolour pack, which

Source: Complete Watercolour Design Toolkit ~ Graphics on Creative Market

Spring vibe is still here right? let’s have some of this Watercolor flower elements for free! with different types of flowers […]

Source: 18 Free Watercolor Flower Elements – Free Design Resources

VIDEO DEMONSTRATION/INSTRUCTION HERE: — I have tested the actions only in Photoshop CC, I am not sure if they work on CS6. but the layer

Source: Text To Watercolour Actions ~ Actions on Creative Market

We know that you’ve been waiting for a long time to something like this; a collection of 30 best script fonts bundled together at affordable price.

Source: 30 Superb Script Fonts Bundle Only $29 – with Extended License | Pixelo

Source: New Fonts this week from Font Bundles.net

Due to popular request, and because I’m feeling the love…this product will remain discounted at $40 for you all 🙂 $200 worth of BRAND NEW

Source: The Mammoth! Watercolour Kit ~ Display Fonts on Creative Market

Hello, I present Bundle Watercolour Flowers. Ideal watercolour elements for invitations, wedding invitations, handmade craft items, scrap

Source: Bundle Watercolour Flowers ~ Illustrations on Creative Market

Watercolour week -2 – Free Design Resources and more

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Today we have Berrish; a delicious yet fresh Watercolor berries elements for free! available in transparent PNG files containing 16 different elements. […]

Source: 16 Free Watercolor Berries Elements – Free Design Resources

Cutish – 13 Free Watercolor Make-up Elements

Source: Cutish – 13 Free Watercolor Make-up Elements – Free Design Resources

Here’s a high-quality hand painted watercolor collection that perfect for creating wedding invitations, handmade craft items, scrap booking, printed paper […]

Source: Free Watercolor Flowers – Free Design Resources

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The floral side of things contributes a lot to all of this style of design and the areas around it. They say we have reached springtime – British weather might have something else to say along the way but …

With all of this there is a sense of freshness, something that smiles keeping a homely and casual feel, between the arts and crafts texture of the watercolour side of things to the handwritten and slightly erratic versions of brush script fonts. These stylings add something very particular to any project or for any small or larger business. I might even reach for the ice cream myself in a moment.

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Announcing bundle of Fonts !!! This bundle is a once off opportunity to get a huge amount of best selling products and will only be

Source: Font Bundle (Graptail) – 89% OFF ~ Script Fonts on Creative Market

Free Design Resources – Free Graphics, Fonts, Templates and More

Free Design Resources is a site dedicated to help you find the high quality design resources for free. Crafted with love from amazing artists and professional designers around the world.

Source: Free Design Resources – Free Graphics, Fonts, Templates and More

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Watercolour Week – fonts, inspiration, freebies

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Here we bring you ‘Watercolour week’ – ideas, offers, resources, bundles – take a look, pick through and find what you need …

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Here we see glorious examples of new trends in typography and design. Just a short while ago we were using the then trend of handwritten marker style fonts. These gave a comfortable and comforting design style to the content created. Here we see another move on into styles that are more calligraphic but still with that sense of ease, homeliness and confort. You have that ever presence here of the kithcen table, mum helping the kids with their hobbies or schoolwork. Then again there is that sense of the home crafted, homemade – all that is welcoming, a touch of nostalgia perhaps.

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There is the obvious shown above, the brush, art made in your own environment. It certainly adds some distinction to a brand, or any project. These fonts are often combined with watercolour decorative elements, something drawn, or something floral – see below.

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Colours Design more …

For the first time, Pantone select two complementary Colours of the Year – Rose Quartz and Serenity. Representing balance between tranquility and warmth, discover Artfinder pieces inspired by these soothing tones.

Source: Pantone Colours of the Year 2016: Rose Quartz and Serenity | Artfinder

_Typography might just help you date, solve obesity and impact your mood; so we’ve learnt from type fanatic Sarah Hyndman. We’ve “previously dubbed her”:http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/the-type-taster “the one woman tour-de-force behind the Type Tasting enterprise”, which looks at the power typography has over our lives and senses. She’s now published a new book on the subject,_ Why Fonts Matter, _and has kindly offered us an extract looking at the effects of typography on our emotions._

Source: It’s Nice That | Why Fonts Matter, and how they impact your mood

Free SWOT Analysis Template for Project Managers

Source: Free SWOT Analysis Template for Project Managers | EGrappler

New trends affecting online design industry.

So what is this new year bringing?

6 essential website photography trends for 2015 | Webdesigner Depot.

The Importance of Print Design for the Internet Age.

Stay in Trend with Material Design: Features & Themes.

f4mmedia Stock Footage | Royalty Free, Instantly Downloadable | MotionElements.

Flat Design vs. Material Design: What Makes Them Different? : Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog.

Flat Design vs Material Design : Which one to Choose | DesigniMag.

The 100 best free fonts | Typography | Creative Bloq.

30 Free Fonts for Hipsters | Fonts | Graphic Design Junction.

Internet Marketing White Paper – Resource Center – mosaicHUB.

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Mastering HTML5 video | Alex’s Blog.

Promote your site, promote your content

Source: 5 Ways To Cross Promote Social Media Posts | Elegant Themes Blog

There is a lot of talk on the Web regarding search engine optimization (SEO) and how, if you just do this one thing, you will be at the top of Google. If o

Source: The Seven Golden Rules of SEO – SiteProNews

KnowledgeVision CEO Michael Kolowich demonstrates the comprehensive online video presentation platform that turns PowerPoint into a multimedia experience.

Source: KnowledgeVision Demonstration | Online Video Presentations