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Custom Pennant Flags Designed to Print Sharp and Fly Long

Custom Pennant Flags Designed to Print Sharp and Fly Long

Pennant flag sizes for strings, walls and poles, the fabric that survives outdoors, and the spacing that keeps a run straight from end to end.

Tobias Reed
Custom School Spirit and Cheer Flags for Your Team

Custom School Spirit and Cheer Flags for Your Team

Plan school spirit and cheer flags by where each one lives: fabric, size, mounting and mascot art, then order flags, banners and handouts in one run.

Tobias Reed
Custom Spirit and Field Runner Flags for School Pride

Custom Spirit and Field Runner Flags for School Pride

Plan school field runner and spirit flags: size each flag for its spot and carrier, simplify the mascot art, and match the banners in a single order.

Tobias Reed
Custom Wall Flags and House Flags That Hold Up Indoors and Out

Custom Wall Flags and House Flags That Hold Up Indoors and Out

Choose a custom wall flag or house flag by how it mounts: low-tack fabric for inside walls, a 3 by 5 pole flag for the porch, aluminum for outside walls.

Tobias Reed
Pop-Up Display Frames Worth Reusing Show After Show

Pop-Up Display Frames Worth Reusing Show After Show

Pop-up display frames that go up without tools and last for years, comparing A-frames, FleX-Frames, 8 and 10 foot fabric walls and full booth kits.

Tobias Reed
Vinyl Letters for Boats, Cars, and Walls That Stay Put

Vinyl Letters for Boats, Cars, and Walls That Stay Put

Plan custom vinyl lettering for a boat, a work vehicle or a wall: pick the film for the surface, size letters for the distance and install with tape.

Tobias Reed

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How to Set Up Your Design Files for Foil

How to Set Up Your Design Files for Foil

Set up design files for foil the easy way: treat foil as its own spot color, build solid vector elements, and supply a matching foil layer with your art.

Emma Davis
The 9 Key Elements of Design

The 9 Key Elements of Design

The 9 elements of design are line, color, shape, texture, framing, type, form, space and value, each shown as a real printed piece you can hold and order.

Sofia Ramirez
The Principles of Design and How to Use Them (With Infographic)

The Principles of Design and How to Use Them (With Infographic)

The principles of design, with an infographic: emphasis, balance, contrast, repetition, proportion, movement, and white space, and how to use each.

Sofia Ramirez
Balance in Graphic Design Guide

Balance in Graphic Design Guide

Balance in graphic design explained: what it is, why it matters and the four types, symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial and mosaic, with print examples.

Sofia Ramirez
Guide to Ice Cream Packaging Design

Guide to Ice Cream Packaging Design

Ice cream packaging design from start to finish, from the right pint, tub, sleeve or box to freezer ready material that handles condensation.

Jordan Kim
How to Write a Logo Design Brief

How to Write a Logo Design Brief

How to write a logo design brief that gets the right logo the first time, with a step-by-step guide and a fillable template for brand, style and budget.

Sofia Ramirez
Logo Checklist for Each Stage of the Design Process

Logo Checklist for Each Stage of the Design Process

A logo design checklist for every stage from brief to handover, to catch weak concepts early, test the mark properly, and hand over files that print clean.

Sofia Ramirez
Trade Show Poster Sizes and How Big to Go

Trade Show Poster Sizes and How Big to Go

Trade show poster sizes made simple: the standard size for each booth zone, how to match size to viewing distance, and which format to print for each spot.

Tobias Reed
Which Materials Are Best for Durable Outdoor Yard Signs?

Which Materials Are Best for Durable Outdoor Yard Signs?

Yard sign material by lifespan: coroplast for a season or two, PVC or composite for a couple of years and aluminum for many years, with cost and rigidity.

Tobias Reed
Graphic Design for Small Businesses Made Simple

Graphic Design for Small Businesses Made Simple

Graphic design for small businesses made simple, from a clean brand and print ready files to business cards from $17.57 and knowing when to hire a pro.

Sofia Ramirez
Graphic Design Marketing and How to Get Clients With Online Printing

Graphic Design Marketing and How to Get Clients With Online Printing

Graphic design marketing that gets clients: a plan to niche, brand, and pitch your studio, plus the print pieces that turn prospects into paying work.

Nadia Petrov
Guide to Hierarchy in Graphic Design

Guide to Hierarchy in Graphic Design

Hierarchy in graphic design, learned the print first way through size, contrast, typography, spacing and color, then applied to real flyers and posters.

Sofia Ramirez
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A banner read from ten feet away at a trade show and a sign bolted to a storefront through a hard winter both have to stay readable and hold up, and they need different builds to do it. These guides cover sizing for viewing distance, the indoor versus outdoor choice between vinyl, mesh, coroplast, PVC and aluminum, and the setup details that keep large-format artwork crisp instead of pixelated.

Banner and Sign Materials by Job

Vinyl Banners print on 13 oz outdoor vinyl or 15 oz blockout vinyl in 24 stock sizes from 2 x 4 feet up, with grommets, hems and pole pockets as options, from $79 and ready in 3 business days. Where wind is the problem, Mesh Banners use 8 oz perforated vinyl at 24 x 72, 36 x 108 or 48 x 144 inches, or any size, from $75.

For rigid signs, Coroplast Yard Signs run on 4mm white coroplast at 12 x 18, 12 x 24 or 18 x 24 inches from $25, PVC Signs come in 13 sizes from 11 x 17 to 36 x 36 inches or any size, and Aluminum Signs use .040 inch aluminum at 12 x 18, 18 x 24 or 24 x 36 inches from $36. Indoors, Retractable Banner Stands carry a 13 oz blockout vinyl print in 13 sizes from 24 x 79 to 59 x 85 inches, starting at $139.

The 12-Piece Open House Kit Matching yard signs, flyers, postcards, brochures and door hangers for realtors, each picked for one step of a listing. See the Realtor Kit →
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