Showcase Of 30 Sweet Email Newsletter Designs
Tweet So, you’ve got people signed up to your newsletter; now what? Do you just fire off regular text emails, or do you take the time to craft something amazing? If you’re one of these thirty websites, you choose the latter option.
In today’s showcase, I’m going to show off some newsletter designs from 30 websites who really took the time to create an amazing layout for their newsletter content. I don’t know about you, but if I get an email like this, I tend to think a bit more highly of the site compared to a regular text email. Is it just me? ;)
1000 Watt Consulting ↓
Mail Chimp ↓
45royale Inc. ↓
Font Shop ↓
Chris Brogan ↓
Envato ↓
Remix ↓
Authentic Jobs ↓
CIB Communications ↓
Raven & Lamb ↓
Marketing Profs ↓
Fitness 5022 ↓
Threadsy ↓
Typekit ↓
Headscape ↓
Borders ↓
37 Signals ↓
Ink Lounge ↓
Hammerpress ↓
eROI ↓
Threadless ↓
Veer ↓
Yoast ↓
12oz Prophet ↓
Nutrabolics ↓
12 Seconds ↓
Tubefilter ↓
Cheapskate Freelancer ↓
Freshbooks Supper Club ↓
Silberpuls ↓
Do you run a newsletter with a killer design?
Drop a comment and let us know. I’ve become somewhat of a newsletter collector as of late. I love the way people design their newsletters, so if you’ve got a good one, drop a comment with the link :)
About the author:
Mike Smith releases wordpress themes on a regular basis and is also a blog designer at Guerrilla.
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April 13th, 2010
great, thank you very much.
April 13th, 2010
Email newsletter designs are pretty tricky.
With most web based email providers and even stand alone email programs, designs often do not show. Some have even converted their newsletters into one big jpg and gmail blocks the image automatically. And if your company uses WebSense if strict settings, email designs become entirely ineffective.
April 13th, 2010
yeah these look great, but are they effective? if your addressee doesn’t enable images in their email, most of these “sweet” emails will be sour since nobody will see anything.. #emailFAIL
thank you for the beautiful jpegs, but lets see a showcase of great email newsletters that are effective with images disabled. correct me if i’m wrong, but i think they must work with and without images to be considered worthy of praise.
April 13th, 2010
Thanks for the post. Newsletters are indeed a tricky proposition between content, easy-to-follow hierarchy, and appealing aesthetics.
I am an illustrator and you may see my custom-designed monthly e-newsletter, here: http://tinyurl.com/y6vpf6r
Thanks again.
Allan Burch
April 13th, 2010
@Jae and Jimmy – These newsletter have (as far as I can remember since some I’ve been subscribed to for a while now) an option to get the newsletter in plain text. Also, with the images disabled, they all display fairly well because they’re not all 100% image based which is a no-no for email newsletter designs. A topic for another day I guess :)
April 14th, 2010
These are pretty inspiring. Thanks for the share
April 14th, 2010
Yeah, I agree with Jae Xavier about HTML emails being tricky when viewed in different email clients. I do a lot of HTML emails for clients and I found a pretty cool tool that shows you how the emails will look in about 16 clients. It’s called Email on Acid (www.emailonacid.com). There are some limitations but all-in-all its a good tool to preview ones HTML emails in a variety of email clients. Great Post!
April 14th, 2010
All designs are really great. Never seen most of them!
April 14th, 2010
I design emails… and am pretty critical of most email design showcases but most of these are actually quite nice. Thanks for sharing them. Would be good to see the full version of the emails via a link underneath the screenshots?
April 14th, 2010
These look great! But even though I’ll be building a template today, I never turn on images in email. At least until after I get the email.
April 14th, 2010
Some wonderful designs here, but you neglected to include the DubLi newsletter, which often has a completely different design – always nice to see what it is each week!
April 14th, 2010
I really do like seeing posts dedicated to email designs. I run a blog dedicated to email designs and standards here: http://beautifulemails.com.
When creating newsletters you have to always make sure it works with and without images. The less images used the better. Never build emails sliced from JPEGs! I hate that.
April 14th, 2010
Excellent post, very usefull to me cose i´m just starting to build my newsletter! Thanks!
April 14th, 2010
I am the lead designer at Atomic Design & Consulting in Plano, TX and I recently redesigned the Specialized Products Company (http://www.specialized.net) promotional newsletter. You can check out yesterday’s send by visiting: http://tinyurl.com/y2yzx3m
On another notes, the email newsletter designs featured here are awesome and very inspirational! Keep up the good work! You have a new subscriber!
April 14th, 2010
Great list, I’ve seen most of them, but still, it’s a nice collections of newsletter designs. Really love the one from Envato and Veer. :)
April 14th, 2010
Those are some sexy newsletters.
April 14th, 2010
Nice post! Some really creative email designs shown here.
More email design inspiration: http://bit.ly/UNBA7
April 14th, 2010
Nice list. Head scape Newsletter design looks beautiful.
April 14th, 2010
Holy smokes! I’m on this list! What a wonderful treat. Thanks so much for recognizing the Cheapskate Freelancer newsletter and listing me with all these newsletter experts.
April 14th, 2010
Great designs, thanks for the inspiration! My favorite is Remix love the colors and the typography.
April 14th, 2010
Great examples of E-mail Newsletters. I also use emailonacid.com and it’s really useful.
April 15th, 2010
Superb collection, but how could you get them. Do you get this email newsletters to you mailbox?. I also used to get some email news letters, among all i receive iStokphoto newsletters is the best one…
April 18th, 2010
cool design collections, thanks for this.
May 18th, 2010
Some very nice ones there, but some terrible ones too.
Like. Really terrible.
How did the ones from Yoast and Cheapskate Freelancer get in there? If the article needed padding, surely you could find better ones than them?
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