So you found a name badge printing service that’s capable of printing custom badges for your company, organization, or event. Maybe your problem at this point is coming up with an appropriate design that will best suit your company or the event that you’re hosting. But you’re not a graphic designer!
You want to maybe hire someone to create the badge design for you, but you’re on a tight budget, and you don’t know if you can allocate some of that budget to a decent graphic designer.
Don’t worry, though, because thanks to the internet, there are several paths and tools for you to choose and take so that you’ll be able to build and design a badge that’s worthy of your conference, convention, or office. Let’s have a look at what exactly those tools are.
Dribbble
The first step in any creative process is the brainstorming session. Maybe you already have a design and look in mind, but you aren’t exactly sure how to execute it. It’s times and situations like these that platforms and communities like those in Dribbble are helpful.
Serving as a design community for creative professionals, Dribbble is a place where a lot of designers and professionals showcase their work, which means that it’s a great place to seek out inspiration for your design.
And then, once you’ve gotten a clear idea of what you want to do with the design for your own name badge, you can head on over to…
Canva
Canva is every graphic designer’s beginner and hobbyist’s best friend. It’s a design platform that a lot of amateur designers use to create social posts, posters, invitations, presentations, and graphics.
The user interface for Canva is incredibly intuitive, with every design element being practically drag and drop. You can drop in text, images, shapes, vectors, and all sorts of things into your canvas, and then add and edit as you please until you’re satisfied with the result.
Canva also has an extensive library of templates (some available for free, and some requiring payment). If you’re on a free account, you can readily use the free templates, or you can also base your design off of some of the paid ones.
Stock Photos, Illustrations, and Vectors
While Canva’s library is relatively huge, there’s still a chance that you won’t be able to find the kinds of illustrations, icons, and vectors that you’re looking for. This is where stock photo libraries are useful.
Sites like Pexels, FreePik, and Pixabay are just some of the many free stock photo libraries that you can browse through and search for elements to add to your custom badges.
Ready-made vectors and illustrations are especially helpful, especially if you’re not exactly a maestro at art, but you still want to include a few fun and quirky elements to your badges.
Adobe Color
Not very keen on color combinations? Well, you’re in luck because Adobe has got a free online tool to help you pick and choose colors that best-suit your badge design choices.
Adobe Color has some color harmony rules that can suggest colors that complement or contrast one another, that way you don’t have to wrack your brain trying to think of what colors to include in your badges.
Adobe Color also has the hex color codes easily available and referenceable in case you’re looking to copy a specific color and shade for your design.
Time To Go To Print!
So now you’ve finished a draft of the design you want to use for your company or eevent name badges. The next thing you need to look for is an awesome partner to help you turn your vision into reality. For that, we recommend checking out Imprint Plus. As a company that’s served over 37,000 businesses world wide, they have the best materials, selection, and templates that you can use and apply to your customer name badges.
