Blog Posts by Christine Edgren

3 Trends at HOW Design Live 2023 From Our Creative Team

Aug 9, 2023

/ by Christine Edgren

It’s been four years since we attended our last HOW Design Live conference, and we were excited to hear it was in Nashville. A quick refresher, this is one of the top design conferences for creatives and Suttle-Straus sent three members of our Creative team on varying days throughout the week. We had the opportunity to see a variety of sessions by amazing speakers, including the first ever "HOW Women Lead" pre-conference. Here are the top three trends our team wants to share:

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How to Design Print Materials for Foil Stamping

Dec 31, 2019

/ by Christine Edgren

Using metallics in design and fashion has been trending in 2019 and looks to be continuing into 2020. Like many other company cards this holiday season, we applied a shiny copper foil to a set of eight different thank you cards. Since most designers don't have a lot of experience with foil applications, we thought that we would share our top tips for designing print with foil stamping.

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9 Themes from How Design Live to Inspire Creative Thoughts

Jun 5, 2019

/ by Christine Edgren

Our Creative team was very grateful to have the opportunity to attend the HOW Design Live conference this year in Chicago. For those of you who may not know, this is one of the top design conferences for creatives. We wanted to share some of the common themes we noticed throughout the conference, as well as our overall experience and some recommendations.

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Pick Your Print Poison: Halloween Inspired Marketing

Oct 30, 2017

/ by Christine Edgren

Halloween time presents an opportunity for companies to get creative and fun with their marketing. We’ve had a lot of fun recently creating some unique and interesting interactive Halloween-themed pieces through traditional print and wide format that we thought we would share for inspiration.

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