5 Quick Tips To Cool Looking Fundraising Calendars
Want to make your fundraising calendars look a little bit cooler and hip to sell to this new technological generation of customers? Well let me give you a few tips for your calendar layouts and designs that would surely make your fundraising calendars a little bit more cool and awesome. It is all about attitude and the adoption of some modern artistic genres really. Let me show you the things you can do to your custom calendars today.
1. Fresh font hunting.
Yes, it might be a simple and obvious idea, but you will be surprised as to how many designers just forget to use fresh fonts to make their calendar prints look cooler. Being awesome with your custom calendars starts with the words and numbers really. People can subtly feel a calendar is old by the use of slightly older fonts such as Times New Roman and Arial. If you choose something new and more softer/rounder, it has been proven that people look at these prints as more fresh, modern and trustworthy. That is why you should try it out. Look for new fonts like Calibri and other free fonts from the Internet. Web 2.0 fonts are what I can recommend for you to try out in your calendar prints.
2. Going clean and sleek.
It is also a great technique in these times to change your designs and go for a cleaner and sleek look with your professional calendars. As the times change, the Internet is slowly influencing the designs of print materials. That is why many professionals are going for the clean and sleek themes used by Web2.0 websites. The color schemes and layouts of Facebook and Twitter are just small examples of these. Try to adapt your designs to clean and sleek styles like those and people will pay more attention to your custom calendars.
3. Mixing themes and cultural signs.
In this multicultural world, calendars need to have more than just traditional themes and cultural signs at hand. One good tip that could increase the sales potential of your custom calendars is to mix different themes and cultural signs. For example, you can turn a modern minimalist look and add in Japanese Shoji influences to make your design look Asian and exotic. Or maybe you can just use multi-cultural models representing Caucasians, Blacks, Asians etc. This will add a broad and lasting appeal to your custom calendars making them more world-smart and cool, just like most modern websites out there.
4. Going grunge.
Now, one popular artistic theme that is gaining ground out there is the grunge look. Many artists, especially the digital ones use grunge styles in poster prints and brochure prints to make them look cooler and unique. So it is only logical to think that you can apply that art style as well to your calendars. Trust me, by using grunge art for all 12 months of your fundraising calendars, you will get a lot of people today saying that your calendar is cool and awesome for years to come.
5. Using digital effects and finishing touches.
Finally, making a truly cool and awesome color calendar for fundraising today always means adding extra digital effects in the layout. The more extra but subtle detail, the more real and awesome looking the calendar is. So do not forget to apply shadows, gleams and extra textures to your custom calendar prints to make sure that they look exciting and awesome to most people