I'd go as far to say this was way over designed. Fair enough making it look like an envelope, but you can achieve that via the Airmail pattern and a minimal white body of content. Newsletters are where type shines, intriguing and grasping the user and right now, that monotype does exactly the opposite.
I'm thinking something along the lines of an ultra-minimal Gowalla 2.0-esque newsletter design, something a big cheeky, that still retains design value but doesn't over compensate. Kisses.
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James ✌
Quickly designed this proposal for a Newsletter, will be fixing bits and bobs, perhaps adding more.
— See bigger version: http://dribbble.com/shots/416230--/attachments/24073
4 months ago
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Charles Riccardi
This is awesome, dude. Love it.
4 months ago
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Chris Brauckmuller
The little red and blue airmail pattern around the outside never gets old.
4 months ago
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Alexandre Deschamps
I think the content should be much higher in the page. Right now the user has to scroll about 400 pixels just to know what the email is about.
4 months ago
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Gadzhi Kharkharov
I like the top part of it very much
4 months ago
awesome design!
4 months ago
drop.the.gradient.
4 months ago
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James ✌
@Tom H - The gradient for the inside of the envelope? It helps define that, no?
4 months ago
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Marshall Bock
Beautiful. But tell that iPhone glyph to go on a damn diet ;)
4 months ago
I'd go as far to say this was way over designed. Fair enough making it look like an envelope, but you can achieve that via the Airmail pattern and a minimal white body of content. Newsletters are where type shines, intriguing and grasping the user and right now, that monotype does exactly the opposite.
I'm thinking something along the lines of an ultra-minimal Gowalla 2.0-esque newsletter design, something a big cheeky, that still retains design value but doesn't over compensate. Kisses.
4 months ago
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Bryan Le
I don't think this is overly designed, but I think the executed and the composition of all of the elements makes it feel that way.
The triangle is dipping far too much in my opinion.
4 months ago