TEL advertising banners

I was tasked to create a couple of banners, one for ‘Technology Enhanced Learning’ and the other for ‘Podcasting’. We decided to get them printed at a place called Recyclable Displays, which was a good choice but created some interesting challenges when designing. Firstly they supplied templates but only in PDF format, which isn’t all bad, as you can import these into something like Adobe InDesign, but it doesn’t import to the correct scale. So in the end, I decided to recreate the template from scratch, meaning I had a 1:1 scale, which put my mind as ease when sending off the final designs.

Banner design in Adobe InDesign

One thing you probably can’t see from the photo is that the banners take on a 3D box-like form, meaning there were 4 sides to design. The final result of the designs can be seen below, this is the second design I created as we decided to go for a theme, rather than two differently designed banners. This will be easier for the future I we decided to get further banners printed for other topics.

Banners erected

All of the work here was created in Adobe InDesign, the format is designed to be generic so if another topic needs a banner, we can tweak the colours, the text and the images and the format can stay the same. The raster images at the top of each banner was taken from our archive and then masked. As we are also advertising the URL’s for each topic I included the QR codes as an additional access route to the sites.

These banners get used at various events throughout the year and due to their eye-catching designs, people are drawn to our stand where we’ll chat about what we offer and how we can support them in their teaching.