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Battery Thermokruzhkus Mug is classic black with a white outline of a battery on it.

This mug helps prevent unwanted morning chatter. If someone tries to talk to you, just look them in the eye, lift this mug, nod, and walk away.

I believe that you would agree with me about that. The best way to start a day is a hot cup of coffee. This will help you to wake up and have a good day. Having said that, why don’t we make drinking morning coffee more interesting ritual? To make morning coffee more interesting is to have a unique and creative coffee mug. If you think the same, continue reading below and choose your favorite coffee cup. Check out 10 Most Creative Coffee Mugs For Geeks. They are all available to buy from think creative.blogspot.com . Just follow the link below each list item.

Welcome to Southerly’s Creative Blog. Working title. Actually, no scratch that – that  is  the title. I’m not here to headline, I’m here to design. We want the Creative Blog to inspire you into thinking about your web design a little differently, with quirky ideas and cool concepts sure to keep you ‘outside of the box’. Incidentally we’re not entirely sure what’s in the box, but if the rumour mill is to be believed, well it ain’t gonna be pretty. Here at Southerly we value and enjoy our internal projects as much as our clients’ work. It’s the variety of these projects that make us stand out, so I’m very pleased to showcase our personalised Southerly mugs. The idea for the mugs was conceived in our Southerly Studio and our very talented and equally loud (sorry, Italian) illustrator and creative designer Federica was the one to execute it. That’s her at the top, by the way. We gave each member of the Southerly team their own personalised mug as a gift, and I’m pleased to say the

We created a neat, glossy flag set "Flags of the world" in 256px x 256px, covering   major countries and states in the world, for a prior project. We thought the images might would be appreciated in the public so here they are for free. In total, two different sets with 230 flags each.

Most creative  and designers are constantly struggling to get a high click-through rate on their banners ads. It's more likely you will survive a plane crash or to birth twins than you are to click on a banner ad. Learn what it makes to create a successful banner ad.

You may have heard about a phenomenon called Banner Blindness? Many  are struggling with it. In this post we will go through some tactics on how you can beat i

Optimizing the content of your banner ads is one way to beat banner blindness. Learn how to create attention-grabbing ads and how they can become relevant to website visitors.

Build once, display everywhere. To build responsive banner ads using HTML5 gets more into the focus the more mobile web users surf the web on different devices. Responsive banner designs make it easy to resize them to fit on any screen or device. Learn more about HTML5, the benefits that responsive banner ads will bring to you and why everybody is heading towards mobile.

Mother’s day is coming up again and as an ad designer it is important to make your banner ads reflect this lovely occasion. All moms deserve a little extra appreciation at least once a year, and it is an excellent time to make the mums enjoy great deals or likely that your company has to offer. Here are 30 inspirational banner ads for Mother’s Day. 

Mother’s day is coming up again and as an ad designer it is important to make your banner ads reflect this lovely occasion. All moms deserve a little extra appreciation at least once a year, and it is an excellent time to make the mums enjoy great deals or likely that your company has to offer. Here are 30 inspirational banner ads for Mother’s Day.  Send your banner ideas to us and we will make a nice collection here.

The Football World Cup is on everyones mind, but it’s more than just a sport event. It’s actually the greatest marketing tent pole on the planet, it’s a marketer’s dream! Get inspired by these creative online and offline ads for the Football World Cup 2014 in Brazil. You also get a free give away with beautiful flag icons. Perfect for your advertising creations for sport events. The time has come, since the 12 th  of June the world started holding its breath for a few weeks. It doesn’t matter if you are a crazy football freak or if you are totally uninterested in sports. No championship engages people as the Football World Cup 2014 in Brazil does! The global excitement is building up, for people as well as for businesses. Since a lot of opportunities are coming up with this event, it’s more than just a world championship.  The Football World Cup is actually the single greatest marketing tent pole on the planet 1   with 3.2 billion that watched it the last time . The audience is gl

The shift from desktop to mobile devices has been going on for a while now, and the consumers are still flocking to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Google collects some answers of how businesses can reach these mobile consumers, in their  infographic  below. If your business has not already begun with a work to reach mobile consumers, it’s time to get starte d d

Great news! You’ve created a great banner advertisement that was well placed and was enticing enough for potential customers to click on it. However, it is now crucial that you follow through with an excellent landing page, or indeed several landing pages, that converts visitors into customers. A landing page is any web page that appears when a visitor clicks on an online ad. However, the landing page is usually specifically designed to guide visitors to the intended conversion goal usually through some sort of offer. We have outlined 7 tips that you should consider when creating your most effective landing page. By using these tips in combination with the right tool to create  banner ads  and BannerFlow’s easy-to-use drag & drop  landing page builder , the building, tracking and integrating of launch pages will be quick, easy and effective.

Gannett and their Gravity giant banner ads have been discussed a lot this week as USA Today launched their giant ad spot. You might have already seen the giant banner ads that appear at the top of the site’s homepage. Gannett is the company behind the campaign and they have created ‘Gravity’ ads so that large banners that take over a person’s computer screen with a media rich banner ad containing high-quality video can be made.

Banner ads are one of the most prolific forms of marketing used in today’s online world. All companies use them in one form or another because they’re an affordable, measurable and effective medium to increase brand awareness – and there’s a lot of design work out there for them. So let’s say that you have a client that needs you to design a banner ad, and lets assume that they’ve provided you with some killer copy. Now it’s  your  job as the designer to create a banner ad that will bring in those clicks! Below is a list of tips and general guidelines for designing banner ads. 1. Use the standard and most effective banner ad sizes 336×280 Large Rectangle 300×250 Medium Rectangle 728×90 Leaderboard 160×600 Wide Skyscraper Ideally, your client will have bought space on a website where your design will be featured above the fold and close to the main content of a webpage. 2. Maintain hierarchy First and foremost:   banner ads are designed to increase brand awareness an