Highway Billboard Advertising for Care Home

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• October 20, 2012 4:32 PM
   jpfischer
    Project Holder
  “Out of home” advertising may seem like a wild and untamed medium but when it comes to designing billboards there are a few rules you need to follow in order to maximize your outdoor advertising return on investment. Embrace these design tips and your outdoor advertising response is sure to improve. Billboard Design Tip #1 Simplicity rules! FACT: Uncluttered billboards usually achieve greater success. Ideally, your billboard design should consist of just 3 main components: A compelling image / photo A unique, benefit laden, emotionally charged headline Your name / logo / contact info Keep it SIMPLE. Prospects are zipping by at 55+ M.P.H. They have only 5-10 seconds to notice, become engaged by and process your message. Don’t make it difficult by cramming your billboard with too much stuff. Try to keep your copy length to 7 words or less. The fewer the words, the greater the chance they’ll understand, retain and recall your message. (See our home page Before and After sample). Billboard Design Tip #2 Use high contrasting colors Bold, highly contrasting colors help get you noticed. Soft, mellow pastels may work fine in slick magazines but they don’t do well in outdoor advertising. When it comes to color and designing billboards, bold is definitely beautiful. (See contrast color chart for the most visible type/background color combinations). Billboard Design Tip #3 Forget fancy font styles Thin and/or elaborate script fonts are hard to read (and often invisible) at long distances. Use thick strokes and simple styles to increase legibility at distances greater than 1,000 feet. Keep ample space between individual letters to avoid blurring, and avoid ALL CAPS, they’re less legible, too. Your billboard has to be read to persuade. (See good and bad font style choices here. ) Billboard Design Tip #4 Use BIG font sizes Large fonts allow reading at greater distances, giving the viewer more time to process your message. When designing billboards, minimum type size should be 18" tall, with 3' and taller being optimal. Humungous type not only aids readability but adds life to your message. Billboard Design Tip #5 Outdoor advertising requires outstanding photography Billboard photos often wind up printing as large as your house, making high-resolution images (300 DPI min.) a must. And good billboard designers leverage that huge scale to make a BIG visual splash, displaying one central image that’s 25' wide rather than five dinky images that lack emotional impact from a distance. Billboard Design Tip #6 Laser focus on 1 key objective You’ve only got seconds to convey your message – no time to list multiple features, lengthy mission statements, or all-inclusive contact information. (Focus your message on one unique objective.) Make one point with IMPACT. Billboard Design Tip #7 Narrowly target your audience Try to reach everyone, you’ll appeal to no one. Your target prospect has a name, a face, a neighborhood, passions, desires and needs. Ensure your billboard speaks one-on-one to their specific needs, just as you would with a friend. Establish a meaningful emotional connection with prospects, and they’ll be sure to RECALL your message. Billboard Design Tip #8 Take it for a test drive Show your billboard design layout to someone for 5-10 seconds. Are they able to read the entire message? Do they easily understand the concept? How about your call to action or business name? Simulating a drive-by-viewing will quickly point out simple mistakes that could clobber your response rate. Billboard Design Tip #9 Use Story Elements to grab and keep their attention Are your graphics and message thought provoking? Are you creating a vivid mental picture that suggests a storyline and creates drama, excitement, suspense or delight? Bored drivers love to be entertained, but quickly. Billboard Design Tip #10 Be bold, courageous and daring! Bear in mind... Absolutely NO ONE will remember DULL. Follow these 10 billboard design rules but break all the rest in pursuit of the memorable! Explore every possible concept, no matter how crazy it initially seems. Nutty ideas often develop into unique and highly memorable outdoor campaigns. Source: http://www.designmybillboard.com/designprinciples.htm
  
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• October 20, 2012 4:13 PM
   jpfischer
    Project Holder
  #26 would look better mirrored (with the person standing by the right side) #4 and #5 are the same, so I will rate only one. To desingers of #26 and #4: The logo font is hard to read, you may focus a little more on the visibility of the website URL(which also is the company's name), use your skills to work around that.
  
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• October 20, 2012 3:59 PM
   jpfischer
    Project Holder
  Designs #8, #19 and #20 are good for a business card, not a billboard. Try something more eye candy to capture drivers attention.
  
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• October 20, 2012 3:52 PM
   jpfischer
    Project Holder
  #27 is a beautiful design, but it must be targeted to the elderly and their families.
  
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• October 19, 2012 3:15 PM
   SiteAdmin
   
  Designers, Please only use images provided by the project holder. If in case source of images has not been provided, you are requested to use images from “www.thinkstockphotos.com”. Images used from any other website or source will not be accepted. In case you are using images from “www.thinkstockphotos.com”, please make sure to keep a record of image ID numbers as contest winners will be required to provide those ID's. Thanks! MB/LDG/LS Team
  
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• October 18, 2012 9:46 PM
   jpfischer
    Project Holder
  Just uploaded the .ai logo file
  
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