Email Ad
jHouse (1425 points) | Mon, 2008-11-03 18:57Hey guys,
This is a simple advert to go out in emails. I want it to actually appear in the window with an active link; not sure how to do that so I will need to Google the HTML, sure it will be simple.
Anything i should be including with this??
Cheers
J
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I attached original..
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Dude, it's really slick, I like it a lot. DAMN, I wish I had your eye for design.
I would suggest, as the others did, getting rid of the top left swirly thing. Other than that I can't see much to improve. Excellent work.
Thanks man. Yea I will get rid of that floral, I dont know why I did that haha!
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The floral idea works, but the top floral should not be an exact replica of the floral at the bottom. The top corner should be different from the bottom corner: think the way vines would think, and see if that works for the piece as a whole, because you still need to have balance. vines on a horizontal surface grow differently from vines growing up a vertical surface. our brains know this, and so it won't look right until it matches what our brain says it should be.
Other than that I think the piece looks great!
PS. you might try it in black on top rotated 180 and in the BG, but only keep the piece that intrudes into the rectangle and see how that looks.
On a secondary topic, an email advert may actually hurt you more than it helps. I remember reading recently that advertisers are abandoning email advertising because of it's growing ineffectiveness due to the association with spam. Many are going back to cold calling and other more personal methods that can't be so easily ignored. Just as an example of this, I never look at any of the adverts that my bank sends me, it goes straight into the trash along with every name I don't recognize.
you're probably better off being conversational and using first names. what's everyone else think of that?
"...and mamma cried: Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa
Don't use "we" when it's just you. Otherwise this kicks some serious butt.
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using "we" for a big company feel may backfire when a potential cutomer realizes that there is only you. you lose integrity. That might be OK for a web retailer where the customer has no way of knowing that you are the receptionist, webmaster, CFO, CEO, graphic artist, and janitor rolled into one, but if you answer the phone, do your own sales and marketing, it won't take long for a potential customer to figure out that "we" is BS, better off to be up front about being solo and have them trust you.
"...and mamma cried: Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa
I disagree here. I'm advertising jHouse - which isnt actually one person, as I source web code out to designers that I am friends with. Wouldn't it look weird to see jHouse, then "I"?
They'd think what am I trying to pull!!?
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sourcing out is not the same as being one organization. But I see your point, however if the customers only ever know about you, and not the others, then the "we" looks weird to the customer. If when talking to customers you always refer to "my designer", "my artist", "my programmer", then it might be OK. As in "I'll have my artist work that up for you", "I'll talk to my programmer and see what he says"
Are you going to post an updated version so we can see the end product?
my Zappa signature for 3dogmama:
"...and mamma cried: Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa
good news, the jHouse logo, looks like it says jHouse! I see you added the bird back (a different bird, but a bird nonetheless...did you make this one?) I think this email thing looks great, except the top left floral, maybe take that off. I like the bottom right one though. Perhaps you should design a smaller floral and put it in the top left. I understand why you put it there, it kind of balances the colors more. But it should be a different floral than the bottom one. That's all I have to say! Feel free to call me up if you need a graphic designer!
Thanks - yea this time its actually a JAY bird that I made, not a dove photoshop shape!
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oh good! :D I must say it looks fantastic.
Thanks man. I wanted it to be pleasing to look at even if the viewer doesnt really understand why there's a bird :D
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"Did I really try to find an "undo" button on a vending machine?"
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well, you've done just that! I didn't really understand until I was told it was a Jay Bird.