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MAR 2024

Canva is your Friend!

Okay for this bit to work you gottta imagine we’re in a black-and-white infomercial…

Are you working on making your Fringe poster, postcards, or just trying to make an infographic to post to social media? Are you looking for tools to better help accomplish your vision and aesthetic for what you want to send out into the world? Well, then let me tell you about Canva!

Thank you, thank you, you can hold your applause.

But yes! I want to talk to you all about Canva; what it is and how best to use it. Canva is a free-to-use online template editor app for creating social media graphics and more. There are premium paid upgrades that you could use, but I would love to let you know about what Canva’s initial free-to-use service. It’s a great tool I’ve used for years now and it really helps deliver some great Instagram posts and more. Here are some Canva tutorials published by the company I found super helpful for various reasons…

How to use Canva: A Beginner’s Guide

 Great move to start here, it’s a great introduction article to what Canva is all about and how to best utilize the program.

A step-by-step guide to designing from scratch

It took me a hot minute to figure out aesthetics and how pleasing design can be accomplished (arguably, still figuring it out). But! This tutorial really helps give you an idea and provides the tools to designing a graphic 

Getting started with Canva

Wanna do a real deep dive? Canva created video tutorials no more than two minutes a piece that tackle individual questions— love that!

Reminder!

Make sure you have the Hollywood Fringe Logo on your promotional materials like your postcards and show poster. The link to access the branding material is right here.

And that’s it for now, explore and create till your hearts content— Let your creativity run wild! Happy Fringing!