Flyer Design Help

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Business is down alot more than I expected. I want to get out flyers to some of my surrounding areas. Does anyone here have a good source for flyer designs or do you have one of your own that has worked? I just need some ideas.

Max Nomad

Assuming you're just starting out on your own, an economical alternative you might want to look into is checking with the Graphic Design department at your local college or trade school. Talk to the department head (or the receptionist); that person will usually forward you to one of the professors. Explain to that professor that you're interested in working with a 2nd or 3rd year student to put together your "Company Brand" and some promotional material templates (i.e. - logo, letterhead, business card, custom flyer and brochure shells that you can add your own message to later, and etc). Phrase it as something like a paid internship -- the professors will highly respect you for it, you'll get the pick of the best talent in their department, and that student will go all out to impress you. As an internship, more than likely one of those professors will be providing guidance to that student so you're getting the benefit of their expertise as well. If done right, at the end of it you'll have

1. a professional-quality company brand with some collateral materials -- a package worth few thousand dollars that you've bought at a fraction of that,
2. copies of all the electronic files in their proper formats so you can use them as necessary on your own or forward them on to future designers/printers/screenprinters/etc,
3. the student will end up with some great portfolio pieces and what just might be their first professional design gig on their resume, and
4. the school will gladly welcome you back if you need to find any more students to do design work.

Now, as far as my company goes, I don't go this route because my background is rooted in 21+ years of experience in Graphic Design. Short of any professional photography work (which I'll sometimes recruit students for), I produce everything else we need in-house. Back in the later 80s while I was in college I was one of those Graphic Design students that got my first professional jobs this way. Below is a greatly reduced JPEG of the front of a 3-panel Z-fold brochure I just got back from the printers. I designed it and wrote all the copy. I'm available to work with you if you're interested but, like I said earlier, if you're just starting out and money is tight you might want to work with a local school. Either way you'll get what you need.

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