Creative Services

Bring your next project to us: We'll help you tell your story.

Creative Services provides professional graphic design for university offices and departments. Whether your job is simple or complex, we work with you from concept to completion to create the right materials for your project.

Submit a Creative Services Request

What We Design

Business Cards and Stationery

Print-ready artwork for business cards, letterhead and envelopes, plus digital letterhead in Word format. We provide the file and print specifications to give your vendor.

How to order printed materials

Event Promotion

  • Fliers and posters
  • Digital signage graphics
  • Social media and calendar graphics
  • Programs and postcards

Program Promotion

  • Degree and program sheets
  • Recruitment brochures and flyers
  • Student handbooks and guides
  • Reports and one-pagers
  • Artwork for promotional items, built to your vendor's specifications

Banners and Event Displays

  • Retractable and pop-up banners
  • Table runners, throws and tabletop displays
  • Document holders for tabling events
  • Large-format graphics and event signage

Badges and Certificates

  • Digital badges for programs and series
  • Award and appreciation certificates
  • Photo frames and event props

Advertisements

Print and digital ad design for placements you have already arranged. For help planning where to advertise and buying the placement, start with Advertising.

Promoting an event? Ask for the full set. We can produce a flyer, digital signage graphic, calendar image and social media graphics from one request so everything matches.

What We Do Not Design

Our work is marketing and promotional material for university offices, departments and programs. We do not design course materials, syllabi, research posters, dissertations or personal projects.

Working With Us

Submit your request as early as you can. Design work is scheduled against other projects in the queue, and materials that will be printed also need time for Clearinghouse review and production. For an event, start at least six weeks out.

Tell us what the piece needs to accomplish and who it is for rather than describing a layout. If you have photography in mind, browse the Image Library and send us links to the images you want. We will handle the design and route it through Clearinghouse review for you.

Resources

Contact Us

Creative Services
Still Hall 110

Robin Boyko
Director, University Marketing and Brand Management
rboyko@niu.edu

General inquiries: graphics@niu.edu