Price Point: $119.98 - $151.18

Production Time: 5-7 Business Days

Available Colors: Black

Perfect For: Employee Giveaways/ Holiday Gifts/ Client gifts/ Room Drop Items/ Swag Store Collection Items

 

Sometimes you need a mental break…a brain vacation…a if-i-have-one-more-small-inconvenience-in-my-life-it-will-quickly-turn-into-a-crisis kind of break from your busy life! One of the BEST ways NorthPoint knows how to unwind is to kick those piggies up, grab your favorite beverage (or beverages) and yummy tummy munchies, and throw on your favorite show or movie!

The Portable Projector with AnyCast can LITERALLY fit into the palm of your hand.  Imagine being able to take your movie watching experience anywhere and everywhere! The AnyCast Dongle allows you to mirror your phone to the projector and can even allow for connections on multiple devices. Alternatively, you can bring this projector into work to easily cast important presentations, photos, videos, and documents from any location!

NorthPoint encourages you to take some time for yourself to relax and rest...you look like you really need it (kidding!)! Reach out today so that we can help to spread the relaxation vibes throughout your family, company, and brand this holiday season.  These projectors make for the perfect gift for all employees, clients, and friends/family alike, so sit back, relax, and let NorthPoint take it from here!

 

With the holiday season rapidly approaching, now is the time to wrap up and finalize your holiday campaign if you haven’t already! Nail down your gifts, submit your designs, and prepare your kits…Santa’s a’comin!

 

Check out the tips below to help get started with your Christmas campaign designing:

 

1.    1. Use a foil or glisten imprint

Spruce up your holiday designs with a classy foil imprint, whether that’s on a holiday card or product.  Giving just the right amount of a holiday feel, foil imprints are a way to add festivity without going too overboard with ornate and decorative holiday designs. There’s nothing quite like a simple classy holiday design! Similarly, glisten print is a decoration method that gives a stylized metallic and “glistening” finish! (Check out our Glisten Print blog post to learn more!)

 

2.    2. Use decorative and handwritten fonts to your advantage

Decorative, handwritten, and script fonts in particular work very well for holiday designs because of the festive feel that they give.  This is the chance to use the extra decorative and fancy fonts that you normally wouldn’t try to use any other time of the year. The holidays are a time where decorative and playful/childlike fonts are FULLY acceptable, so use them to you advantage! To bring out the holiday spirit and typographical cheer, try pairing a script font with a handwritten font to see how your design can come to life!

3.    3. Consider your audience

Don’t forget to consider your audience when designing for the holidays.  It might not be fully appropriate to go all out in Christmas or red and green designs if you know that you have an audience where not everyone celebrates Christmas. To avoid any offense in the instances of a broad and unknown audience, try sticking with a more general holiday or winter design. Wintery blues and shimmery silvers and golds can create just as beautiful of a holiday design as green and red!

 

4.    4. Use animation to add a fun and interactive element to your designs

A cheerful animation can go a long way in a holiday design! Whether it’s just small movement of objects within your design or an entire animated scene, animation can truly put a smile on your audience’s face, as well as bring more attention to your design to highlight the holiday feel!  You don’t need to go overboard with an animation either – sometimes even the smallest design elements are most appreciated! Think animated sparkling lights on a tree, or even a few snowflakes falling in the background.

Holiday designs are where you can truly have the opportunity to go all out, but don’t forget that sometimes simpler is better.  Find the perfect pairing of festive and simple, and you’ll be sure to have a successful campaign! (If you are need of design assistance, NorthPoint’s design team is here to help every step of the way!)

 

Price Point: $5.73-$6.57

Production Time: 5 Business Days

Available Colors: Clear

Perfect For: Employee Holiday Item/ Internal Holiday swag/ Holiday Party Items/Holiday Giveaways/ Spooky Dinner Party Drinkware/ Giveaways/ Room Drop Holiday Items/ Holiday Swag Store Collection Items

IF you are reading this, you are BLISSFULLY unaware of what is creeping behind you.

Kidding!!! Gotcha!

The older and older you get, the harder it is to find someone that is willing to share a horse costume with you. But let’s not stress about costumes and instead just eat, drink, and be scary to your family! Let’s face it…we get more scared looking at our bank account after a night out anyways, and not to mention, most of the time we are just here for the Boo’s! Speaking of Halloween Boo’s, we have the perfect vessel to carry around your fun little potion with an ELECTRIFYING (not literally, don’t worry!) light up skull party mug. This custom drinkware is a frighteningly fun way to carry around your ice-cold beverage….but don’t feel bamboozled, it’s not just for your Halloween festivities.  This cup is perfect for events, concerts, bars, clubs, and raves all year round, not just the spooky-season. Let NorthPoint help make your marketing campaign a little less haunting and much more BOOTIFUL. Creep it real. Happy Halloween from NorthPoint!

Choosing fonts that work well together is a key factor to the visual success of your brand. While most brands have a primary font associated with their brand, additional typeface(s) are necessary to create hierarchy and add more visual interest.  It may seem like a simple task, but choosing typefaces that work well together is quite important to creating a visually appealing and successful design and takes much more thought and consideration than one might think.  Luckily, there are some general guidelines that help in making the decision easier.

 

Here are a few tips to keep in mind when combining typefaces:

 

1.  Limit to 2-3 fonts

With any design, the main goal is to relay a message, so having a design with too many fonts may be seen as cluttered and unorganized.  Limiting yourself to 2-3 fonts is a general rule to help keep a cohesive and clear design. However, this rule may of course be broken for more creative and expressive pieces that aren’t used for editorial or corporate purposes!

 

2.  Create contrast

Creating contrast with your typefaces is what allows for a hierarchy to be built, therefore setting apart one section of text from another.  If the headline, subheading, and body text of a design are all in the same font, it would be muddy, the message would be confusing, and nothing would stand out to the eye. Instead, pair contrasting fonts, whether that’s a thick font with a thin font, a simple traditional font with a decorative font, or a sans serif font with a serif font. Check out some of these examples below!

3.  Stay in the same family

To make the decision even easier, many font families consists of a wide variety of the font, from different thicknesses to italicized or condensed versions, and for some even a serif version.  Font families were in fact created to classify fonts that are meant to compliment each other, so using fonts from within the same family will not only be easier to choose contrasting fonts that’s go well together, but it will also ensure that your design and text are cohesive throughout.

 

4.  Pair similar styles

While it is important to create contrast with your font choices, it is also important to keep in mind the style or “mood” of your fonts.  From a design standpoint, it is easy to tell if a font comes off as professional versus a funky and “fun” font.  For instance, the font used on a corporate letterhead is not going to be the same as a bubbly script font used for a birthday party invitation.  So understandably, it wouldn’t make too much sense to pair these two together.  In this sense, choosing fonts with complementary moods that are still different enough to stand apart is something that should be considered!

 

As with all things creative, general guidelines are in place to be understood, but rules can be broken to create something unique and artistic! Having the knowledge of the basic principles will give you the design instincts to then pair with your creativity, taking your design the next level.

 

NorthPoint’s design team is also here to assist you in your font combinations and designs.  Reach out at any time to get our personal opinions and advice!

 

 

Price Point: Varies for each piece

Production Time: 5-7 Business Days

Available Colors: Varies for each piece

Perfect For: Employee Appreciation Gifts / Client Appreciation Gifts/ / Corporate Swag Store / Travel Items / Tradeshow Items / Internal Swag / Holiday Swag