Up the ante of your presentation folder by dipping into some of the tactile and textures boards that are currently available. If you are brave enough to stick with a single colour design the feel of a linen or felt board will last long in your customers mind and enhance your image through a less is more approach. Often a simple image is the one that is retained the longest, and making the material integral to your folder will leave an enduring image.
As part of our ‘Reuse and Recycle’ blogs this one is all about diverting your magazines, old wrapping paper, catalogues and pretty much everything printed from the bin and using it as the basis for decoupage decoration.
Simply put, decoupage is using printed material that would otherwise be destined for the recycling bin, cutting out pictures, shapes or motifs, creating a collage and gluing to an object before finishing off with a coat of varnish. All very ‘Blue Peter’ but lots of fun and very satisfying!
It is now official that grey is more popular than black – in terms of car colour at least. But in terms of all aspects of design grey has been steadily marching up the charts for several years. A trendy pub or restaurant will greet you with calming grey walls and dark grey trim; soft furnishings match and compliment grey tones; cars, clothes, nails and even hair are now vamping up grey.
Grey has played a strong supporting role for years, particularly with blues and oranges. Its very neutrality makes it a background of choice for layering colour without being overpowering. But what is grey and how can it be used to best effect?
What is the similarity between flyers and flags? They are both designed to get attention, they both communicate, generally they are both colourful and sometimes they are both made from paper!
Flyers are a tremendous and inexpensive way to create a buzz around a promotion, event or product. As a marketing tool your potential customers can see what you are advertising, and then have the ability to physically take that information away with them. Flyers can be targeted to a specific location or market segment – essential when return on your investment is key.
Designing and printing your own greeting cards has never been easier and is the perfect ‘starter’ product with which to enter the retail market place. With mobile phones now taking photographs at a resolution good enough to print from, inspiration really is all around you and just waiting for you to snap it up. Add easy online design and editing tools to the mix and you have everything you need at your fingertips to create your first set of printed greeting cards.
The Pantone colour for 2018 is Ultra Violet, which just happens to be the science behind what makes neon colours fluoresce and glow with an appealing eye-catching brightness. If Ultra Violet is the colour for 2018, neon printing is set to be the breakthrough product of 2018.
Read on for more about the waves that neon is set to make.
We've added a new product to our printed notebook range with a square spine finish. This means that we can print 60 and 80 page books in-house and at a very competitive price. Our answer to perfect bound notebooks is a perfectly new product.
Your Big Day is booked, the suits and dress fittings are organised. But what about all of the wedding stationery? Well we can help with that, but you can help us too, by having an idea of what you would like your wedding stationery to look like. The we can do the rest.
At A Local Printer we have our own creative services arm called, unsurprisingly, ALP Creative Services. As well as design we also offer marketing experience and options for promotional campaigns, which is the Creative Services element of our offering and not at all scary!
There is a new craze working its way across the country – the love of all things matt. This is particularly so for things that are normally associated as being glossy, like cars, paintwork, phones etc. In the printing world matt paper has been around for eons, but it terms of use it is generally the one left waiting for a dance partner as people gravitate towards the fancier silk and gloss materials, or the earthy goodness of the uncoated and recycled finishes. So what exactly can matt papers bring to the table, and is it time for them to step out of the shadows and on the dance floor?
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Up the ante of your presentation folder by dipping into some of the tactile and textures boards that are currently available. If you are brave enough to stick with a single colour design the feel of a linen or felt board will last long in your customers mind and enhance your image through a less is more approach. Often a simple image is the one that is retained the longest, and making the material integral to your folder will leave an enduring image.
As part of our ‘Reuse and Recycle’ blogs this one is all about diverting your magazines, old wrapping paper, catalogues and pretty much everything printed from the bin and using it as the basis for decoupage decoration.
It is now official that grey is more popular than black – in terms of car colour at least. But in terms of all aspects of design grey has been steadily marching up the charts for several years. A trendy pub or restaurant will greet you with calming grey walls and dark grey trim; soft furnishings match and compliment grey tones; cars, clothes, nails and even hair are now vamping up grey.
Designing and printing your own greeting cards has never been easier and is the perfect ‘starter’ product with which to enter the retail market place. With mobile phones now taking photographs at a resolution good enough to print from, inspiration really is all around you and just waiting for you to snap it up. Add easy online design and editing tools to the mix and you have everything you need at your fingertips to create your first set of printed greeting cards.
The Pantone colour for 2018 is Ultra Violet, which just happens to be the science behind what makes neon colours fluoresce and glow with an appealing eye-catching brightness. If Ultra Violet is the colour for 2018, neon printing is set to be the breakthrough product of 2018.
There is a new craze working its way across the country – the love of all things matt. This is particularly so for things that are normally associated as being glossy, like cars, paintwork, phones etc. In the printing world matt paper has been around for eons, but it terms of use it is generally the one left waiting for a dance partner as people gravitate towards the fancier silk and gloss materials, or the earthy goodness of the uncoated and recycled finishes. So what exactly can matt papers bring to the table, and is it time for them to step out of the shadows and on the dance floor?
