Millers Brochure Help?

[Narginia]

Good Morning!

I am getting ready to place a brochure order through millers and I am having a panic moment as I am getting ready to hit send! I am not sure I have laid them out correctly and wanted to see if someone who has ordered from Millers before could just give me a little re assurance or ask me what the heck I was thinking when I designed it! LOL

This would be the *front panel*? I'm assuming its back because if the brochure was laid open this would all be facing me?



Then this is the back panel



Any help or suggestions would be great! Millers just isn't open for customer service and I'd like to place the order today.

Thank you DPS!

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[AnneWynne]

Print out some test brochures at home and see if you like the layout. Then wait until Millers has customer service and make sure you have everything set up for print (ie, do you need to allow for a 1/4 inch border around the perimiter for a "bleed line" , that your artwork and text will not end up too close to the edge once printed, etc.)

There is a lot more to printing than just the color profile, especially when it comes to printing brochures and stuff.

Design-wise, since you have blue text on brown, you may want to have brown text on blue instead of black on blue. I am not a graphics designer, so take this suggestion with a grain of salt.

[lonni]

Hi

Dont know if it is too late or not. I am a print designer, but never done anything for millers.

As long as you have followed the cardinal rules you should be fine. Make sure you have the bleed, make sure you ave anything important inside the safe zone, make sure everyting is in the correct resolution and correct colour space you should be fine.

The front or outside panel is usually what is folded to make the back and front.

A few hints: The flourish in the background behind the text is distracting and makes it hard to read, i think your font is too fine to be done in such bright colours, some people would find it hard to read.

If you are worried about the fold line and if you got it right i would suggest taking away anything that would make teh fold stand out, like the brown block, and keep eveything to narower margins, to be on the safe side

Also personally i would put your contact details on the back, i am assuming it is a C fold, people dont like to hunt for the contact info.

Can i ask how much you are paying for the brocures and the specs - paper, laminating, size, quatity etc.

Love your images.

HTH

[lonni]

Ooops i forgot. Please please please tell me that is not papyrus. Please?
If possible change your font. You dont need fancy text as well as fancy back grounds etc. Add a fancy heading but keep the body plain.

And its a designer thing but never ever ever use comic sans or papyrus, ever. For a designer its an offence punishable by death. Sorry designers have an odd sense of humor. LOL. WE are also a bit neurotic.

Let me know if i can give you a hand.

[MotherEarth]

I think your pics are really good, but are being drowned out by the busy brochure. Maybe try to tone down the blue? Simple and classic will do your work much more justice

[MotherEarth]

Or swap the blue and brown round if those are your signature colours, the photos will stand out better on a dark background x

[AnneWynne]

Originally Posted by lonni

Ooops i forgot. Please please please tell me that is not papyrus. Please?
If possible change your font. You dont need fancy text as well as fancy back grounds etc. Add a fancy heading but keep the body plain.

And its a designer thing but never ever ever use comic sans or papyrus, ever. For a designer its an offence punishable by death. Sorry designers have an odd sense of humor. LOL. WE are also a bit neurotic.

Let me know if i can give you a hand.

Why not Papyrus?

Inquiring minds, and all...

[BuddhaPi]

Papyrus to designers is like frames to web developers or selective color to photogrpahers...just one of those things to never use/do

[lonni]

When it came out it was over used by the general public as a body or general font, when it is designer as a display font. It is also not a very good example of good font design. It often is hard to read in small sizes and looked jagged in large sizes and in my opinion looks funny. It was a fad and dates too, design has moved on to sleek simple fonts and beautiful cursive decoratives, as a rule.

Its just one of those things designers dont do, like adding selective colour to a photograph as mentioned above, but i would put it on par with those attomic baby eyes.

Subconsoiusly, when people see a brochure with comic sans or papyrus they think it is a bit amateur, there was a study about it a few years back, i will try and hunt it up. It had soemthing to do with the fact that it was a home word processing font, not a pro design font. And if you can do it your self ... you know the rest.

I have a typographic poster that says "thou shalt not use papyrus or comuc sans", designer humour, i did say we are neurotic.