Graphic Design

More than 100 examples of award-winning #SchoolPR publications

If you’re looking for great examples of school district publications and electronic communications, look no further than the top winners of NSPRA’s Publications and Electronic Media Awards contest. Below are links (as many as I could find) to the 2015 Award of Excellence winners. Hope you’re inspired!

 

Annual Report


Branding/Image Package


Calendar


E-Newsletter (External Audience)


E-Newsletter (Internal Audience)


Excellence in Writing

  • Broadalbin-Perth Central Schools, Broadalbin, NY
    B-P Students, Teachers Adjusting Well to Common Core
  • District School Board of Niagara, St. Catharines, ON
    Director’s Welcome Back Speech to School Administrators
  • Guilford County Schools, Greensboro, NC
    Fighting Back
  • Virginia Beach City Public Schools, Virginia Beach, VA
    Compass Keepers Club: Debbie Cathey

Finance Publication


Handbook


Internet/Intranet Website


Magazine


Marketing Materials (Electronic)


Marketing Publication


Print Newsletter (External Audience)


Print Newsletter (Internal Audience)


Social Media


Special Purpose Publication


Video (produced in-house)


Video (produced with outside contract)

Don’t Get Cut Off: Create Perfect Social Media Graphics With This Template

Have you ever been browsing your Twitter or Facebook feed and come across a post with its image cut off?

Twitter and Facebook on a smartphone

If you’re creating graphics like this in order to attract people to your posts, (which is a good idea according to experts) it would be a shame and a waste of your time for part of your message to be cropped off, not to mention how unprofessional and careless it looks. Plus, to create separate images to fit each platform would take a lot of time.

Find out how to make sure you design your graphics so they fit for both Facebook and Twitter. Read the rest of this post, which is published on the NSPRA Social School Public Relations blog.

5 Tips for “Designing” Perfect Social Media Posts

I’m a graphic designer, and the main goal of that job is designing information in a way that it is most easily understood, attracts attention and makes audience members do something. In the case of social media, the “design” of your content includes the words you use, number of words, punctuation, emojis, images, links and layout on a viewer’s screen.

Have you ever considered that the “design” of your social media posts affects whether or not they will be seen, understood and acted upon?

Read the rest of my post, which is published on the NSPRA Social School Public Relations blog.