In February I told you about a poster I designed for free for Cancer Research Relay for Life launch event happening in my local town. Well last week I was given some great feedback from the organisers….

“I would very much like to thank you for all your hard work in completing the poster for our launch event which took place on Friday 29 February for Cancer Research UK’s Relay For Life Sutton Coldfield. The event was a resounding success and we were exceptionally pleased by the comments we received regarding the poster campaign. The poster was distributed throughout the businesses and homes of Sutton Coldfield.

We simply could not have done this without your support - thank you very much.”

Isn’t that nice feedback

Make no mistake that emotions are the driving force behind sales, and customers making buying decisions can be influenced through visual elements towards a particular behaviour or emotion that will encourage more sales.

Not convinced? Have you noticed that a lot of restaurants are decorated in/heavily feature reds and/or oranges? Still not convinced?

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When esteemed client and owner of Boutique Babylon contacted me this week asking for an e-flyer design for her birthday party event and told me that she was looking for a Kitsch Barbie theme with barbie doll images (including Ken/Action Man) and lots of pink, I could barely contain my excitment over the thought of such a fun project.

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I don’t often post links to other people’s blogs as it feels a bit lazy to me, I do like to try my best to create new content for this blog, but I thought this particular blog was so useful I just have to.

So many times I find myself explaining to potential customers the different components that make up a web design project, from the actual design, to the build and to completion and onwards and I found today a blog by Simon Jones of Zako Media Web Design that sums it all up perfectly and even offers some solid advice to boot…

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