1. © www.teach-ict.com All Rights Reserved Well Designed Brochures When you want to create a brochure, it is a good idea to use a Desktop Publishing package such as Microsoft Publisher. DTP packages normally provide a wide selection of templates which you can use to help you create a professional look and layout.

2. © www.teach-ict.com All Rights Reserved Well Designed Brochures DTP software has many features to help you create an attractive and interesting brochure: Frames Word Art Rotating Flipping Text formatting Templates

3. © www.teach-ict.com All Rights Reserved Well Designed Brochures Even with all of these features, it is all too easy to make poor decisions about the design of your brochure. Sometimes, even though you have tried really hard, the brochure might not be as attractive or as appropriate as you had hoped Let’s have a look at some well designed brochures to get some ideas.

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5. Large, attractive images Interesting, smaller images scattered around Good use of ‘white’ space Text in coloured boxes Green texture repeated on back cover Coloured text compliments background

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7. Large, attractive images Text colours reflect image borders Brochure for young people – appropriate font style used Text for adults much smaller and more compact Images rotated to look interesting

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9. Angled font formatting adds interest Striking pictures used as backgrounds Plain boxes used to hold text – show up well against background Large, attractive, appropriate images Borders around images to highlight them Not overcrowded

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11. Image cut out to show an interesting shape Good use of font colours to draw attention to points Striking image at the bottom Not overcrowded – plenty of space left Text at different angles