Eye-Catching Invitation Design

Here's a great piece we recently produced for the Santa Barbara Zoo Zoofari Ball. The graphic designer incorporated gold foil into the design that really catches people's attention. 

Gold foil adds a touch of glamor, yet is fairly durable and won't chip off. Gold foil stamping turns an invitation into an eye-catching piece, perfect for invitations that you want to get noticed!

 For a lower cost method, we can also add spot colors to your design using our 6-color Lithrone offset press or our HP Indigo Digital Press. Wilson Printing is the only company in Santa Barbara County offering a 6-color offset and the Indigo!

Design Inspiration - FoldFactory Videos of Interesting Folds

Looking for inspiration for your next folded piece? Look no further than the FoldFactory's YouTube Channel. The FoldFactory has put together a great series on interesting folds and die-cuts.

Check it out on the FoldFactory YouTube Channel.

Speaking of interesting folds - Wilson Printing is proud to be the winner of the Printing Industries of America Premier Print Award for printing of The Granada Season Brochure which included a very intricate fold and die-cut. The winning piece was featured in our August 2010 blog post.

How to Add Color to Your Business Cards

COLOURlovers.com is a great web site where designers can share colors, palettes, and patterns, and discuss the latest trends in graphic design.

This article has some great examples of using color in business cards. They offer great tips such as creating a palette from corporate web site design and using designs that may it easy to find the information on the card.

If you need help with your business card design or are looking for a printer that can make your business look the best that it can - give Wilson Printing a call! We've been printing business cards, letterhead, envelopes and company brochures for over 35 years.

Making Your Posters Interactive With QR Codes

There are a number of ways you can make a poster interactive using QR Codes. Granted, most of these functions can be done manually, for example dialing a phone number or adding an event to a calendar. However, using QR Codes makes it easier for customers to interact with your event.

Here are a few examples that can be used for a poster promoting an event (in this case, the Leon Russell concert at The Granada):

Add Event Date: QR Code for the event's date so when the person scans the code, the event date is added to their phone's calendar.

QR Code to add concert date to phone's calendar.

Call Phone Number: QR Code to call the ticket office.

QR Code to call Granada ticket office.

See Location: QR Code to open Google map of event location.

QR Code to Google map of Granada location.

Go to Web Site: QR Code to go to the online ticket sales.

QR Code to go to Granada online ticket sales.

Go to Web Site 2: QR Code to go to the organization's web site.

QR Code to go to Granada web site.

Go to Web Site 3: QR Code to go to the artist's web site.

QR Code to go to Leon Russell web site.

If you need help creating QR Codes or have questions on how you could use QR Codes with your printed media, give us a call! We're here to answer your questions and help make your printed media more effective!

Wilson Printing