Design Tips for Printing Notepads
Notepads are great for any business to give to customers. You most often see notepads left in hotel rooms for guests to use and take, but notepads can be given out to customers or prospects at trade shows or with store purchases. There are certain design elements that should be considered when creating notepads that will make people want to keep them. The longer they keep and use your notepads, the longer they’ll be thinking of your company!
Add Rule Lines
Adding rule lines, like notebook paper, is a great option for notepad design. It gives the custom notepad an organizational pattern that most people like to use.
Use Watermarks or Transparent Images
Watermarks are those very transparent images that you can easily write on top of on notepads or, more usually, resume paper or letterhead. Using a watermark or a slightly darker transparent image allows you to use the entire space of the notepad for your logo or for your slogan. Otherwise, you have to keep your logo and other design elements small enough to allow plenty of uninterrupted writing space.
Add Your Logo
You can use your logo as a single, centered design element at the top of the notepad (an elegant, but traditional and possibly overdone choice) or you can place your logo as a transparent image. You could get more creative with your logo and repeat the logo across the top or bottom of the notepad, or include it in all four corners of the notepad. Corners aren’t usually prime writing space, so repeating your logo at these spots should leave plenty of writing room.
Include a Photo
By placing a product photo at one of the edges of the notepad, you’re giving yourself more opportunity for selling. Not only will the person writing the note see the product photo, but if that person is writing the note to someone else at work, another person will see it.
Celebrate the Holidays or Seasons
When the weather turns cold, design a notepad with snowflakes falling along the sides of the notepad. For Christmas, create a notepad with garland or a little Christmas tree at the bottom of it. Include a Hanukkah menorah that takes up most of the bottom of the notepad to light up the rest of it. A nice beach scene along the bottom of the notepad or a sun and clouds along the top are great for a summery feel in the Spring and Summer months.
No matter what kind of design you add to your notepad, be sure you leave plenty of room for writing space. Also try to include some image or graphics that relate to your company in some way, not just graphics that look cool.
