(holiday music)
- Hi everyone, my name is Dylan.
Today, I'd like to show you the wide selection
of festive season content that we have for you
in GoDaddy Studio.
Now, Christmas is just around the corner,
and whether it's for business or personal,
we have everything you need to create some beautiful,
festive designs.
Now, a logical place to start looking would be
in our template feed.
And you'll notice that up at the top,
we do have a Christmas quick start button.
Tapping on that will give you a sense of the full selection
of festive season templates that we have.
Now these span a whole range of different design,
styles and formats, and include everything
from greeting cards, invitations,
event posters, recipe sharing,
Instagram stories, product features,
and of course, sales promotions.
If selling is in fact, your primary objective
over the festive season, then I would suggest
you think about a full campaign,
and head straight on over to our layout collections.
Within our full collection view, you will notice
that we do have a festive season layout collection.
And this really makes life easy for you
because it's been professionally designed already.
You simply just add your images and text
into these placeholders, and your multi-platform,
very professionally designed and beautiful looking campaign
is ready to go very quickly and easily.
But if you'd like to have some fun
creating your own unique design from scratch,
then we have some really great graphics,
fonts and images to help you do just that.
So let's start with the blank canvas
and take a look at images.
The best place to head would be the Unsplash library.
And if you just search for something like Christmas,
you'll find hundreds of really high quality,
royalty-free images that you can use.
And you would simply just select one of these
to use as the foundation of your design.
Right now, we also have a wide selection
of festive season fonts.
So if you're going to add some text into your design,
you can express that in any number
of different Christmassy fonts.
We have a specific collection dedicated
to festive season fonts.
You can find this at the far left-hand side
of your font tray.
There's that upwards arrow, and you simply tap on that.
It'll take you to our font library.
And here, you'll notice right at the top,
there is a Christmas collection.
Tap on that and you can see
some of the 30 or so different fonts that our design team
has curated specifically for festive season designs.
Right now, when it comes to graphics,
this is where you are really spoiled for choice.
Again, the search bar is your friend here
so I would suggest just typing "Christmas"
or perhaps, "festive" into the search bar,
and you'll see, we have a whole range
of different types of graphics for you,
ranging from patterns to serve as backgrounds
to your design,
to, perhaps,
gold foil backgrounds for a slightly more elegant look
and feel to your Christmas card this year.
We also have some photorealistic elements
if you're creating a scene,
something like a photo studio type of feeling.
You can very easily create these scenes
without even stepping into a studio.
And then we have some fun things, of course,
too, like Christmas cats.
Everybody loves a cat in a Santa hat.
And we have things like nativity scenes
for a slightly more religious angle
to your festive greeting.
And then also just some general scenes
of people doing Christmassy things.
One thing we've definitely noticed this year,
there's been a big trend towards retro illustration
and design styles.
So that's why we've sought out
these retro Christmas graphics
if you want to put a unique retro spin
on your Christmas greetings this year.
This will be a lot of fun.
It draws on a very, kind of 50s style,
which can definitely add a lot of character and personality
to your designs.
In a similar vein in the retro feeling,
we also have this retro Christmas collection.
And this one perhaps draws a little bit more
from the 60s and 70s if you'll notice
by those distinct brown, orange,
yellow color palettes.
There are also some elements related,
perhaps more to the hippie culture of the late 60s.
So this is again, another really interesting
and on-trend way to give your Christmas cards,
your Christmas content,
a very unique look and feel this year.
So we have you well-covered
for all your traditional Christmas elements,
the candy canes, the elves,
the Christmas trees, the Santas, the reindeers.
It's all here.
But bear in mind that traditional
doesn't only mean one thing.
So Christmas is a truly global celebration,
and that's why we invited a range of different artists
from around the world to create graphics for GoDaddy Studio
that draw from their experience of Christmas
in their specific country or culture.
For example, if we look at a German Christmas
created by Alana Keenan, you'll see that she has focused
quite heavily on the market culture,
which is a very big part of Christmas in Germany.
And she's illustrated some of the traditional food and drink
that you might find at these Christmas markets,
some of the traditional toys too,
as well as some German greetings and expressions
that you might use amongst friends at this time of year.
In a similar vein, we also have this Festive Graphic Pack
from Russia created by Anna Kosorukova.
And again, some traditional Russian festive greetings.
And what I really love about this pack
are the really detailed illustrations she's created
for these Christmas tree ornaments
and these tree elements.
Definitely has a very traditional Russian folksy feeling,
but I think it would look really fantastic
on any kind of Christmas content,
just for a slightly unique twist on the festive season.
I also particularly love the Russian version of Santa Claus,
which looks similar but just a little bit different
from the one that I'm used to, anyway.
Right now, England is very well known
for its very traditional Western style
of Christmas celebration,
but the UK artist, Mat Voyce,
has breathed some humor and some pop energy
into some of these old-fashioned elements,
like Christmas puddings and Christmas trees
and ugly sweaters.
And in his very unique illustration style,
he's turned things like turkeys and snowmen and candles
into really fun characters.
Now in the Southern Hemisphere,
Christmas looks quite different to the way it does
in the US and Europe.
For example, in this pack called "Boas Festas"
by Gleydson De Lima,
he gives us a view of what a Brazilian Christmas is like.
And it's a very hot summery occasion
where people like to go to the beach
and eat things like delicious, fresh fruit,
and of course, being steeped in the Catholic tradition
as Brazil is.
He's also focused quite heavily on these nativity scenes,
again, rendered in these quintessentially Brazilian colors.
There are also some elements you'll notice
that are perhaps the same around the world,
things like letters to Santa.
I thought this one was really cute.
And I really loved the version of Santa Claus
that Gleydson gave us.
The Brazilian Santa Claus looks a little bit different
to the one I'm used to seeing,
and I really like that.
This guy looks like a lot of fun.
And speaking of non-western, non-traditional Santa Claus,
in this pack called "Muy Felices Fiestas" by Luis Pinto,
we have another version of a Mexican Santa Claus,
also looks like a really fun character,
something of a hybrid between the traditional Western
and the Mexican style.
You'll also notice that elements like caroling,
which is a big part of the culture in Mexico
around Christmas time,
is also chosen to feature elements like that.
And then just wrapping up our tour
of Southern Hemisphere Christmas,
I'll definitely suggest checking out An Aussie Chrissie
by Glenn Thomas.
And again, you'll see scenes of backyard barbecues,
the beach, very much the spot that everyone goes to
on Christmas, being summer in Australia.
And I really love the Australian Santa Claus
that he's created for us.
This guy looks really laid back with his surfboard
and his sunglasses.
And I think they call that an esky in Australian,
that icebox full of beers.
There's even in fact, in this Australian Christmas pack,
there's even a shrimp,
which I presume gets thrown on the barbie
around Christmas time in Australia.
So these and some of the other festive graphics that we have
from around the world are a great way
to communicate more meaningfully and authentically
with your global audience,
but they're also just a fun way to try something unique,
veering away from the expected imagery
at this time of the year.
All right, just one more tip to leave you with before I go,
if you are planning on printing out cards
or perhaps gift tags, maybe even decorations and stickers
during the festive season, you can of course do that
with GoDaddy Studio.
Just remember to always save your designs as a PDF
if you're going to print.
And the way you'll do that
when it comes to your export dialogue,
just tap on export settings
at the very bottom of the screen,
select PDF before you export,
and you can save it as per normal.
You can explore all of this fantastic festive content
and much, much more by downloading the free app right now.
All the links you need are in the description below.
Wherever you are in the world,
here's wishing you a beautiful and peaceful festive season.