The Office of Communications creates a variety of digital and print products, including esigns, email banners, posters, and programs. Here's an overview of the design products we create and how to request design projects that include them.
Please follow our Editorial Style Guide when creating text for these product types.
Centers and Institutes
- Esigns
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Esigns give advance notice of events and are displayed on large monitors in NYU Law buildings. They post one week prior to the event.
Information needed:
- Title of event + descriptive text
- Date (without year), time, location
- Speakers/panelists: headshots in a high-resolution format + name and title (current title is preferred, not previous titles)
- Sponsors and co-sponsors, if any
- Provide any logos in a vector format (not JPGs)
- Details on CLE credit, if offered
Example:
- Email banners
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Email banners can be embedded at the top of an email message to provide the name and date of an event to recipients.
Information needed:
- Title of event
- Date
Example:
- Posters
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Posters provide more comprehensive details about upcoming events and are displayed at designated locations within NYU Law buildings. They can be printed at no cost by the NYU Law Duplicating Office.
Information needed:
- Title of event + descriptive text
- Date, time, location
- Speakers/panelists: headshots in a high-resolution format + name and title (current title is preferred, not previous titles)
- Agendas can be added depending on space, but please keep short
- Sponsors and co-sponsors, if any
- Provide any logos in a vector format (not JPGs)
- Details on CLE credit, if offered
Example:
- Programs
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Programs distributed at events typically contain a schedule and description as well as information about participants, sponsors, and CLE credit (if offered). Centers and institutes must cover the cost of copyediting and printing of programs.
Information needed:
- Title of event + descriptive text
- Date, location
- Schedule of events
- Descriptive text about the program/lecture/series
- Speakers/panelists: headshots in a high-resolution format + name and title (current title is preferred, not previous titles)
- Speaker biographies
- Sponsors and co-sponsors, if any
- Provide any logos in a vector format (not JPGs)
- Details on CLE credit, if offered
Example:
- Brochures
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If you are interested in creating a brochure for your center or institute, please reach out to David Niedenthal at david.niedenthal@nyu.edu to set up a meeting to discuss your needs.
- One-Pagers
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If you are interested in creating a one-pager for your center or institute, please reach out to David Niedenthal at david.niedenthal@nyu.edu to set up a meeting to discuss your needs.
Example:
- Reports
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The Office of Communications does not design reports for centers and institutes, but we can help facilitate copyediting and design for your project. For more information, please reach out to David Niedenthal at david.niedenthal@nyu.edu.
Departments
- Esigns
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Esigns give advance notice of events and are displayed on large monitors in NYU Law buildings. They post one week prior to the event.
Information needed:
- Title of event + descriptive text
- Date (without year), time, location
- Speakers/panelists: headshots in a high-resolution format + name and title (current title is preferred, not previous titles)
- Sponsors and co-sponsors, if any
- Provide any logos in a vector format (not JPGs)
- Details on CLE credit, if offered
Example:
- Email banners
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Email banners can be embedded at the top of an email message to provide the name and date of an event to recipients. We produce email banners for events and also branded department email banners.
Information needed for Event Banners:
- Title of event
- Date
Example of Event Banner:
Example of Branded Department Banner:
- Posters
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Posters provide more comprehensive details about upcoming events and are displayed at designated locations within NYU Law buildings. They can be printed at no cost by the NYU Law Duplicating Office.
- Title of event + descriptive text
- Date, time, location
- Speakers/panelists: headshots in a high-resolution format + name and title (current title is preferred, not previous titles)
- Agendas can be added depending on space, but please keep short
- Sponsors and co-sponsors, if any
- Provide any logos in a vector format (not JPGs)
- Details on CLE credit, if offered
- Programs
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Programs distributed at events typically contain a schedule and description as well as information about participants, sponsors, and CLE credit (if offered). Departments must cover the cost of copyediting and printing of programs.
Information needed:
- Title of event + descriptive text
- Date, location
- Schedule of events
- Descriptive text about the program/lecture/series
- Speakers/panelists: headshots in a high-resolution format + name and title (current title is preferred, not previous titles)
- Speaker biographies
- Sponsors and co-sponsors, if any
- Provide any logos in a vector format (not JPGs)
- Details on CLE credit, if offered
Example:
- Brochures
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If you are interested in creating a brochure for your department, please reach out to David Niedenthal at david.niedenthal@nyu.edu to set up a meeting to discuss your needs.
Student Groups
- Esigns
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The Office of Communications works with Student Affairs to post student group esigns using a templated format. Groups should reach out to Student Affairs to submit a request. Please note that esigns post one week prior to the event, so be sure to allow enough time for our offices to produce and post the esign in advance of your event date.
Information needed:
• Title of event + descriptive text
• Date (without year), time, location
• Sponsors and co-sponsors, if any
• Contact/registration info, if applicableCommunications will then post your esign to the screens throughout the school.
Example:
The Production Process: What You Need to Know
Design project request: Submit your request using our fillable document. Work cannot begin without it.
Turnaround time: Normal turnaround time for design is four to six weeks, depending on the complexity of the job. For mailings, allow eight weeks. For posters, allow two to three weeks. For more urgent requests, please reach out to David Niedenthal (david.niedenthal@nyu.edu) to discuss options.
Text: Please submit text in a Word document with very minimal formatting. No complicated columns, tables, or tabs. Do not put text in the design product request or in the body of an email.
All jobs with a large amount of text (like programs) require copyediting. If Communications needs to outsource your project to a freelance copy editor, the invoice will be paid on the chart field submitted on the design project request.
Images and sponsor logos: Headshots and logos should not be pulled from the web or be embedded into Word documents that include text. (They come out pixelated in printing.)
For images, ask participants to submit a high-resolution JPG that is not tightly cropped. Be sure the image is 300 dpi (resolution) and at least 5 x 7 inches.
For logos, ask co-sponsors to submit their logo in vector format. Vector file names typically end with .eps, .ai, or .svg. A vector file allows the logo to be resized larger or smaller without loss of quality, and is the most flexible type of file in terms of how it can be used.
On the other hand, a raster file (with a name ending with .jpg, .gif, or .png) is limited to its specific size and resolution, and can only be sized down. Logos that are raster files, especially JPG files, should not be submitted as they will appear pixelated and are limited in how they can be used, if at all, in the layout.
