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Color is never allowed to interfere with easy reading.
-Fourth Commandment: Emphasis
Guerrillas know when to whisper, when to shout.
They use design to help readers separate
important ideas from
supportive facts. They use
tools of emphasis to make their message’s information hierarchy instantly recognizable.
-Fifth Commandment: Simplicity
Guerrillas design to Simplify.
Guerrilla Marketing Designers recognize that readers quickly can lose interest when reading extended text, like articles, memos, newsletters or proposals. Accordingly, Guerrillas maintain reader interest by breaking information into manageable, bite-sized chunks using techniques like segues, subheads, lists and sidebars.
Simplicity also involves restraint. Guerrilla Marketers recognize that “less is more” when it comes to emphasis. They exercise extreme discretion before making typeface, type size, type style or color choices.
Guerrillas recognize that one outstanding photograph communicates more than three average photographs.
-Sixth Commandment: Instant Communication
Guerrilla Marketing Design is visual.
Guerrillas strive to replace words and sentences with story-telling visuals. These include charts, graphs, lists, organization charts, tables and timelines that communicate at a glance.
Guerrillas use visuals to quickly communicate comparisons, relationships and sequence.
Guerrilla Marketers understand that words alone are not enough to ensure marketing success. The presentation of
words has to be as finely-executed as
words themselves.
Guerrillas understand that design is not a mystery, nor is it a cure-all.
Rather, design is a fundamental business competency that can be mastered when
right resources are chosen and properly utilized.

Roger C. Parker is the $32 million dollar author with over 1.6 million copies in print. Download the remaining four of the 10 Commandments of Guerrilla Marketing Design here: www.GMarketing-Design.com