Friday, October 21, 2016

Banner campaigns - more free picks

Images of carefree moments of enjoying life. Picked and slightly adjusted to create a matching set, reminiscent of the hazy background image (below) on the client's site.

Internet campaigns

Some more samples of the banners that I was free to use whatever images I saw fit. The campaign sets each consist of three vastly differently shaped banner bases - the wide horizontal one, the tall vertical one and the square one. This in most normal cases requires editing the chosen materials to perfectly fit all three of the templates, regardless of the materials' original orientation. Of course, with these there's the benefit of getting to choose material that well suits both orientations yourself.

The animations on the samples are to illustrate the construction of the banners.


Campaign for eye sight improvement surgery.


Image for a wood floor repair firm. I think this is where I first created this call-to-action button element, I'd later re-use quite a few times.


Images chosen to represent family therapy retreat on a farm with animals. Horses were the most prominen in the client's Facebook timeline.

Banner campaigns - free pic(k)s

Had fun time choosing fitting images for the advertised itchy scalp remedies and dog ear products.

Internet campaigns

Few more samples of the banners for sets consisting of three vastly differently shaped templates within each campaign. These are some of the banners that I was free to choose what ever images I saw fit to advertise the client's products/services.


Here the banners required images of models representing the client's various services from beauty surgeries to tattoo removal.


Love their logo, which was all the material that was given. Got to choose and color appropriate images.


To deviate slightly from the usual bland imagery of accounting, I took the opportunity to interpret client's image request bit more freely and create something of a whimsical cartoon character to grab attention.

Web banner campaigns

A sample of pretty much all ready made materials, freely picked from the client's site and arranged fittingly - I just love how the banners turned out.


Designing for banner campaigns

The basic set of banners I've been working with at my job recently consists of three vastly differently shaped templates all within each created campaign. This in most normal cases requires 'molding' the same material to perfectly fit all three of them, regardless of the original materials' orientation.

The varying shapes of the bases bring more fascinating problem solving to the banner making, which may otherwise seem a rather 'mundane' or low effort task. The results may seem obvious and simple, but the photomanipulation work that goes behind them can occasionally involve surprising amounts of 'trickery' and spatially aware thinking similar to any other form of 'graphic design artistry' - this is what I most enjoy in this job, and what I feel is most beneficial to implementing in other mediums as well. To get the most out of each given/chosen material in the required space and to make it convey the message or the image of the campaigns in a single glance often isn't just a simple copy and paste job.

I'll be posting samplings of some of these banners in the following posts.


The animations on these samples were created to illustrate the construction of the banners - none of these particular ones here were animated in use.


Autumn campaign for a car rental, where the car images provided by the client got places on a few sample backgrounds.


Prime example of the usual task of extending the provided image to fill the background in each of the frames properly.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Youth Pride poster, event program etc.


Poster and event program flyer illustrations and layouts for Youth Pride events and other promotional material for Helsinki Pride 2016.

Above: proposed illustrations and layout for vendors' and advertisers' media kit leaflet, based on elements of the event's logo (not my design). A map illustration of the Puistojuhla venue area. Below: business cards for the event staff.

Helsinki Pride 2016 event banners


Banners and display graphics to promote Helsinki Pride 2016 events on Facebook and on collaborative parties' websites, such as the Opening Club held in The Circus -venue.