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- antoine_101
hello everyone.
doing a new letterhead here. my boss wants ALL of our office addresses on it (8 in total) plus all their phone and fax numbers. anyone got any good letterhead examples. With so much info its so hard not to take up too much space, my text is already like 8pt... might have to do a double sides letterhead.... anyone have any good ideas?
- Rand0
how about a solid color in the reverse saide, with all that clutter dropped out?
- rockonski0
how about that?
- Rand0
yeah, how about it?
- antoine_1010
yeah got that as one of my ideas. concepts. boss wants to try and stick to one sided letterhead if possible.... i dont think its do-able. but thought I would ask everyone here before and just other opinions...
- rockonski0
it's doable one sided, but it sounds dumb to have 8 addresses there no? i've never designed a letterhead so... Rand?
- NegativeSpace0
I had to do one with two full address' on it and it seemed like information overload already lol.
To me it makes more sense to only have the address to the office that the letter is coming from, otherwise its confusing. There are somewhat cost efficient ways of doing this too if you do a generic letterhead and the address gets printed from the computer, or perhaps through imprinting.
I wish I had some better layout ideas aside from putting them on the other side.
If it does say one side, id make sure to limit the text area of where the letter will be written or else its going to crowd any other elements. For intance, like a 4 column grid where 3 columns are reserved for the body and the 4th column somehow accomodates the address or something.
- Dancer0
You need to reason with your boss*
Here's my idea:
THere are 8 addresses and eight sides of the paper (stay with me!) print the logo and address in corner or on each edge of the paper (rotating as you go) on both sides. Each office will print their letters with the paper in correct rotation, therefore the recipient will know which address it came from.*Print single colour to save on cost.
N.B the rotation is symbolic of your comapny logo.
That's for free
:)
- Dancer0
OR
Print all addresses in a single each and run across the top of you paper and get the staff to cut a little knick out next to their address...
OR a hole punch??
- MrT0
I'd be wary of making it too complex, at the end of the day everyone knows how to use a letterhead. If you go for a rotating 'concept', it'll come with instructions and it's 110% guaranteed someone will do it wrong.
You can go below 8pt for legible text, and I would avoid the red banner down the side. IMHO that draws attention to the fact you've got loads of addresses.
Bigger logo, smaller addresses.
Hope that helps...
- Dancer0
Nahhhh, it would be different and unique, stand oout and all that.
OK, print just the logo on the paper and get a rubber stamp for each address voila.
- foreign0
how about main info at the top, secondary info at the bottom, in a subtle color, like a light grey?
- shutdown0
get the offices to register PO boxes, then all you need is po box 123, shitsville, county
that ends my wank idea of th day
- kelpie0
definately lose the strong red column, it unbalances the thing...
- Spanna0
Run each address in one line of text so you have eight lines of text.
The office from which the letter is coming sits at the top, or is heavier weight or something?
8 kinds of letterhead but should not prove that much more expensive and is more comprehensive to the recipient
- Spanna0
oooo - dancer - nice suggestions!!!
- Bluejam0
- layout : logo top right, list office information below. set primary office under logo and then list the other office's one third down page, use 7-8 point text
- organise by country (6 in total)
- standardise your typography, it's shockingly bad. no caps (see country name), decide on: tel, t, t. and include international dialing numbers.
- email and website info bottom of page.
- MrT0
8 way letterheads?
Rubber stamping the address?**** it may as well just give all the offices a pen and some plain paper...
It's a layout issue, nothing more.
- Dancer0
8 way letterheads?
Rubber stamping the address?**** it may as well just give all the offices a pen and some plain paper...
It's a layout issue, nothing more.
MrT
(Oct 25 05, 04:50)Why can't we make it more? This is a problem that antoine_1 came up with we are merely suggesting alternative ways to get to the solution. to:
1. cut cost
2. making the most of an interesting problem.After all this is ONLY a letterhead, 8 addresses down the side is... dull... and unbalanced.
now back to your typesetting...;)
- MrT0
You should try it sometime...
Soz, that was a snotty post.
There's nothing wrong with making it more, as long as the result is not more of a problem to use, which I thought those were.
And letterheads will always be unbalanced until they get a letter on them... 1st rule of letterhead club.
:-)