I figure since I am an ad designer by profession, that maybe I should post some of those samples, especially since all these samples have actually been printed. In the year that I've worked here, I'd say I've done over 200 ads (which is a lot, by the way ;-). I've done ads for companies from California, Florida, New York, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, Kansas and then some! We've printed over 30 magazines in 10 + different states! What a way to get your name out there (yes, my name is listed in all magazines...tee hee hee).
I like designing ads because it's quicker and I get to change things up and not being stuck on one project for long periods of time. With ads, I am constantly getting new projects to do, work on and then finish. The only bad thing about ad design is quantity. In some areas, I do 60%+ of the ads. This doesn't leave a lot of time for each ad. I was going through all our past magazines and found way too many ads that I never want anyone to see. So it is when companies send me nothing to work with (or I have no time...)
The other bad thing is when magazines overlap and I have ads in 3 or more magazines to complete. This gets rather stressful at times...and the days quickly turn into 10 hour days as opposed to 8.
So here are a few ad samples I've completed as well as a few magazine covers (ones where I designed the entire magazine) that I've also done.
This was a marketing piece I made-probably one of my favorite projects because they told me I could do whatever style I wanted. Finally! Something I want to do! ;) It's actually a spread and the print size was 12x24. I even found the printer to print this and saved our company 5 THOUSAND bucks! No lie! Ya, they know they love me here. ;)
This was for a guy who had never advertised before so he didn't have any ugly ads to send me and say 'make it look like this'. I love those kinds of clients. :)
These guys were trying to back out of advertising the day of print(!), but our sales guy told me to go ahead and design it anyways and send it over to them to look at. Once they saw the ad, they were so happy with it and glad that they kept their ad in the magazine.
