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Manchester United have been forced to apologise for a ‘Nazi-style’ logo (Picture: AP)

Manchester United have been forced into an embarrassing apology after upsetting supporters by printing a Nazi Swastika-style logo on a weekly fans email.

Angry fans complained about the resemblance – on a mail about the club’s up-and-coming young players called ‘New Order’ – on Twitter.

The term ‘New Order’ is also linked to Nazism after Adolf Hitler’s call for a European New Order in 1941.

MORE: United booed as the edge past Stoke

United have issue an apology for this logo

The logo appeared above the heads of images of United players including Adnan Januzaj, David de Gea and Danny Welbeck.

The club’s head of media, David Sternberg, responded: ‘The creative is completely inappropriate; we apologise unreservedly and are taking appropriate internal action.’

The club have launched a full investigation into the incident.

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Your business card is a springboard to new connections and new opportunities. A good business card can make a lasting impression — but a poorly designed card can stop your networking efforts in their tracks. So what makes a business card great? We asked three experts to weight in.

Keep it simple

Less is more when it comes to business cards, said Loredo Rucchin, head of product development for Jukebox Print. Prior generations packed as much information as possible onto their cards, filling every square inch with logos, colors and text. But the most successful modern business cards trend toward clean, open designs, with just enough text to get the point across, Rucchin said.

The reason is simple: An uncluttered, visually sophisticated design has greater impact and will make you more memorable. It also has a more professional appearance.

At the extreme end, some people opt to include nothing but their name, logo, email address and Twitter handle. You don’t necessarily need to go quite so barebones, but think twice before packing on more content.

“When you look at the old business cards that have been scattered around in the last eight or 10 years, it looks like the goal is to fill every single corner of the card with graphics and pictures and titles and slogans,” Rucchin said. “Now, people are just moving past that. They realized it was tacky and they just want to simplify things.”

Don’t hesitate to use both sides of the card if you need to, though.

Make it memorable

If you can afford it, pay for a card that potential clients and contacts won’t soon forget. The best cards spark a conversation as soon as they’re received. Business cards made from unorthodox materials such as plastic or metal are sure to get people talking — but there are plenty of ways to make your ordinary paper card stand out. Most printing companies can spice up your design with rounded corners, weighty paper or a textured finish, and letterpress text can give your card a bit of 3D depth.

Think of your business card as an investment into your company’s future and it can really pay off, said Joseph Gornail, founder and printer at Fine Print NYC.

Gornail designed a specialty card for a fashion designer featuring an embossed flower. The card wasn’t cheap.

“[The designer] said the price was crazy. I said you’ll make your money back by selling two suits,” Gornail said. “And you will, because this card gives the impression you’re a million-dollar company and you take things very seriously.”

If it fits into your budget, it may be worth it to pay a premium price for a premium business card.

Branding is everything

Make sure your business card makes the right impression. An unusual business card might be memorable, but it could do more harm than good if it doesn’t match your brand, said Brandie Knox, creative director and principal at Knox Design Strategy.

Every element of your design should complement the image you want your company to project. Take the time to discover just the right typeface, color pallet and materials for your brand.

“It’s great to have a card that’s a conversation starter. You want it to be unique, but you don’t want it to present an image that is inconsistent with your brand,” Knox said.

That doesn’t give conservative companies a license to be boring. Even the most traditional firm can add some personality with heftier paper, a bit of texture or a strategic splash of color.

One more tip: Consistency is key. Avoid varying designs among employees within your company, or within a particular department. A consistent brand message is one that really resonates.

Work within your limitations

A great business card doesn’t have to break the bank. By taking advantage of customizable templates offered up by many printing companies, you can create a dynamite card with almost any budget.

But if you do take the DIY route, err on the side of simplicity, Knox said. Choose an understated design without too much color, and shy away from whimsical fonts.

“You want something clean and professional,” Knox said. “That’s really the image you want to convey, no matter what business you’re in.”

Ultimately the best business card is the one that works for you and your company — regardless of the cost.

Originally published on BusinessNewsDaily.

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Whether you’re preparing for a trade show or training or simply want something informative for clients to take at the office, you’re likely considering creating a brochure or flyer. But understanding the size, paper styles, colors and folds that are most effective is difficult to truly know. At kaizen print, we’ve been in business in the Arlington and Belfast area for over 30 years. We know what does and does not work well in the area. When using kaizen print, we can guide you through the best way to design your brochures and flyers for your business.

Whether or not you’re printing a brochure or a flyer, you have a variety of paper choices to choose from, such as:

• Gloss
• Matte
• Uncoated text
• Card stock

Design

As you design your brochure or flyer, kaizen print can offer you a wide array of designs and templates. We can print a brochure to fit a variety of sizes, from the very small tri- or bi-fold, to the large tri-fold, measuring at 11”x25.5”. We provide various options for folding as well, including trifold, bifold, roll fold, parallel fold and gate fold. In fact, if you are looking for a brochure in more of a booklet or catalog style, we can print and even bind that style for you.

Printing

Don’t let the idea of a complicated design deter you from creating the brochure or flyer that will best benefit your company. We can print full color, spot color or black and white. Whatever your design may be, we can match it to your exact specifications.

Let our professionals help you create the brochure or flyer you want.

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I’ve realised that I’m a bit slow on the uptake as my research has told me that this advertising campaign has been around since last year. May be it’s only just reached Putney where I saw it recently.

Regardless, my advertising love this month is showered on a poster advertising campaign for HMS Belfast. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the vessel, it is a museum ship which is operated by the Imperial War Museum and moored on the River Thames near Tower Bridge.

It is definitely a London landmark but to be honest never fills me with inspiration. I have not felt compelled to visit during the five years I have lived in London despite my love of boats and it’s the last place I would think of to take children.

However their poster advertising caught my eye and turned my head.

The concept of the campaign was to reveal the many levels of fun to be had onboard HMS Belfast and to highlight some of the more quirky facts about life below deck. The illustrator, Frances Castle, via the design consultancy NB: Studio, was given a brief to produce artwork for a year long advertising campaign which needed to appeal to children. The illustration had to feature the ship itself, against a sunny London scene including Tower Bridge behind and include some details of below deck, incorporating actual photographs for flyer printing (http://kaizenprint.co.uk/product/flyer-printing)

I think the outcome which has been used on station posters, leaflets, on-site display adverts, e-flyers and print adverts is really effective. It takes a dour old ship and brings it to life, giving a sense of adventure that will capture the imagination of both kids and their parents.

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Your underpants could soon be instantly produced with a revolutionary 3D printing process that could change the way clothes are made.

Manchester firm Tamicare says its Cosyflex process uses 3D printing in a new, faster way to create fabric.

To prove its potential, they are creating a range of 3D printed pants – and is even in talks with Victoria’s Secret to mass produce underwear for the lingerie giant.

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Manchester firm Tamicare is in talks with Victoria’s Secret (this season’s lingerie, pictured) to mass produce underwear for the underwear giant 

 

Model excited about wearing Victoria’s Secret 3D PRINT underwear

 

 

Tamicare is run by designer Tamar Giloh. 

Last month Giloh presented her technology at a textile conference in the U.S, which is where suppliers from Victoria’s Secret heard of the plans. 

A supplier for the lingerie firm then took a tour of Tamicare’s offices to see the technology – capable of printing a pair of the disposable underwear in three seconds – in action. 

The process is fully automated and can produce up to 10 million pairs of the underpants in a year.

‘A radical departure from traditional textile manufacturing techniques, Cosyflex’s unique additive manufacturing method creates a next generation of textile that is so versatile,’ Tamicare said.

‘More versatile than any other textile manufacturing method to date, Cosyflex prints finished product designs, in just seconds.’

The firm’s first products will be aimed at women who experience particularly heavy menstrual flow, but the firm says its technology is well suited to sportswear, and also compression bandages.

Although the pants use natural latex and cotton, a variety of clothing can be produced, and the firm has experimented with silicon, polyurethane and teflon. 

It has also tested a variety of textile fibres including cotton, viscose and polyamide. 

Tamicare says its technology, latest product pictured, is well suited to sportwear, and also compression bandages. The say that they could produce up to 10 million pairs of knickers a year 

 

Printed knickers? Tamicare shows how it makes disposable pants

 

 

‘So far we were approached by companies, both national and international leaders, in the hygiene industry, cosmetics, medical, sports and fashion, looking for business collaboration,’ said Tamicare’s CEO, Tamar Giloh

It can even produce breathable fabrics suited for sportswear.

The firm recently opened a new plant to produce the fabric.

‘At this new site we are going to set up a mass production line for Cosyflex,’ CEO Tamar Giloh told Innovation in Textiles.

‘The new line, which we designed, is partially financed by a government grant. 

‘So far we were approached by companies, both national and international leaders, in the hygiene industry, cosmetics, medical, sports and fashion, looking for business collaboration,” she added.

The firm has been working on the technology since 2001 and the first 3D printed underwear is expected to go on sale in pharmacies in Israel next year.

More than 30 other startups have been in touch with Giloh since her conference talk in October.

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What are flyers? Flyers are also known as hand bills. These are single page flyers used for advertisement and marketing. The flyers market products, businesses, services or occasion. Cheap ones are used by businesses for periodical announcements. They’re given to people on the streets or pasted on bulletin boards in social places and malls or during social events. Flyer printing is a cheaper advertising method than any other media channel.

You should therefore have tips to help you in developing better flyer prints in order to reach the target market fast.

The Template

Many layouts in flyer printing are quite simple, bland and at the end dull. The important element for your flyer is the colour printing process. The process should utilise the new template. There are various shapes that you can use other than the usual rectangular shape. Select a shape rarely used nowadays. The new style and appearance presents a unique flyer that’s noticeable.

The title

Making the heading precise is a very crucial characteristic. Verify the details before going for the flyer printing service. Everyone obviously reads the title first. A title having repetitions and slogans discourages people from reading your flyer. It’s therefore essential to bring an updated title. Ensure that the title is innovative and fresh to engage the viewers

Artwork

Artwork is very important in flyer printing. It’s necessary for you to upgrade the visuals contained in the coloured flyers. Use designs that are rarely used. A unique design grasps viewers’ attention. The design also makes you credible. Enrich the designs, making them stylish in line with current flyer printing trends. Having good-looking visuals renders the flyers attractive to people. The attractiveness makes your flyers to stand out among many others.

Promotional Point Of View

For strategy driving purposes you have to revise the short advertising angle or marketing proposal to use. You may be using an advertising method which may not work best next season. It’s advisable to analyse the market. If possible recompose a new idea and the course it will stay in the people’s minds.

Influential colours

At the later stages of flyer printing process, you may want to change the colouring of your flyer. It’s driven by your desire for something more appealing. Request to be provided with distinct coloured paper for your flyers. You certainly may like to change colour scheme to something more attractive. The intention is to have a flyer that stands out. Therefore work with the limited and testing various colours.

The tips ensure the output of flyer printing serves your market to your expectation. Great returns to your business then follow.

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Flyer Pritning has given us a revival of the instant pint camera with its instax devices, and our smartphones are allowing us to create faded, aged, filtered, square-cropped photos at the touch of a screen. But our smartphones can’t spew out a shake-to-develop print and not everyone wants an instant camera in addition to their smartphone (and possibly a few other picture-taking devices, too). So how about a printer that connects wirelessly to your smartphone and can churn out instant prints? Marvellous!

It’s the Fujifilm instax SHARE SP-1. Although really it deserves a far more catchy name.

In short, you download Fujifilm’s free app to your phone and it lets you choose photos to send to the printer wirelessly. In long, you can have quite a lot of fun with it, too. There are enlarge and reduce options and black and white and sepia filters. You can record a precise moment with the Real Time template, which prints the date/time, place, weather, temperature, and humidity on the photo. The Limited Edition template numbers each print of a given image with a serial numbe. And if you choose to print an image that you’ve uplaoded to Facebook or Instagram, you can print it with your profile photo and its number of likes, too.

It measures 101.6mm by 42mm by 122.5mm and takes Fujifilm instant Color Film‘instax mini’. The expected UK price is between £140 and £150. They’ll be available in March. I could be tempted by one of these, so that I can pin photos on my fridge.

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Economic predictions are a crap shoot at anytime, but especially during times when central bank intervention is running at all-time highs. The markets are more managed and manipulated now than at any point in history. The Federal Reserve is literally propping up the entire system via nearly $1 Trillion in bond purchases per year, artificially low interest rates, an active plunge-protection team, gold market intervention, economic data manipulation and clandestine operations we have yet to understand.

So anyone trying to make economic or political predictions with any accuracy is naive, delusional or possibly both. Yet,everyone seems to enjoy these predictions, so I have decided to partake. The following are my predictions for 2014:

1) Stock valuations will continue pushing higher in 2014 The stock market bubble with continue inflating before it finally pops and a major correction ensues around the summer of 2014. Investors should continue riding the trend higher and profiting from the FED-induced bubble, while maintaining sensible trailing stop orders.

2) Higher taxes and health care expenses will hurt consumer spending in 2014 This will continue to squeeze the middle class and harm the economic recovery, as consumer spending dries up. We have already seen signs of this with low initial retail sales during the holiday season.

3) The FED will not end QE in 2014 The Federal Reserve cannot cut QE by any significant amount without crashing the markets. Therefore, I predict they will not make any major cuts to their quantitative easing program without replacing it with equally or more potent stimulus in another form. We will see a new program from Yellen designed to increase the velocity of money and get the banks lending. This will lead to higher inflation in 2014 and into 2015. Yet, the era of super low interest rates is likely over. We will see interest rates climb slowly higher in 2014, capping the recent advance in the housing market.

4) Gold and silver will push towards previous highs by the end of 2014Precious metals will find a bottom during the first quarter of 2014 and rebound strongly into the second half of the year. Gold will advance back towards $1,800 and silver towards $40 before year end, with increased volatility as price discovery moves away the COMEX. Many miners will go under due to the depressed prices of the past year and lack of financing, while best-in-breed mining and royalty stocks will easily double from the current oversold levels. Here are the 12 reasons I believe gold and silver will rebound in 2014.

5) Russia and China will continue growing economically, politically and militarily These two nations, together with their BRICS counterparts, will continue encroaching on the role of the U.S. as global superpower. This trend will accelerate with the backlash from the NSA spying scandal, as leaders around the world have a growing distrust of the United States government. This will make it harder for the U.S. to find military allies or get cooperation for UN resolutions. This will also generate significant economic consequences for the United States, as foreign nations seek to limit their business dealing with the Unites States or U.S.-based companies.

6) 3D printing technology will make major ripples in worldwide manufacturing The manufacturing landscape will be forever changed with the evolution of 3D printing technology. Consumer acceptance will increase as prices drop and we will start to see more people purchasing consumer-grade 3D printers for the home. This consumer adoption will help leading companies in this sector meet their lofty growth forecasts. Nanotechnology, robotics, graphene technology, genomics and intelligent sensor technology will continue to accelerate and drive innovation in 2014.

7) The importance of independent media will continue to grow As this happens, traditional media outlets will become even more marginalized. With the spread of information and decentralization of media power, people will become more aware of the real happenings in the world and less susceptible to mainstream media spin. Social media and other online platforms will continue to ferment revolution, challenge the status quo and question the lies of the governments and large corporations that have been colluding to exploit their people.

8) Bitcoin will continue increasing in popularity and value, Amazon or another major retailer will announce acceptance of the virtual currency. Bitcoin will continue to have wild price swings, increasing in value to $2,500 or higher during 2014. Bonus predictions: Edward Snowden gets some type of pardon and returns to the United States. Fukushima has another meltdown or emergency, as the public has never been told the true extent of the problem.

Parting Shot

Those are my best guesses for 2014. While there appears to be plenty of dark clouds on the horizon, I am also hopeful and inspired by many of the changes that we are taking place. Technology is enabling increased information dissemination, education, political networking, medical advances and significant wins in the decentralization of power. We now have a free-market currency to compete with central bank notes and the ability to literally print weapons for self defense.

There have also been a number of localized political wins, including the legalization of marijuana in a few states, labeling of GMO foods in Connecticut, public education and outcry against another Middle East invasion (Syria), several municipalities nullifying provisions of the NDAA and several other signs of an awakening of the citizenry.

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