Brochure Design

I've been spending a lot of time on www.smashingmagazine.com still just browsing various designs and how they are applied in different ways, such as in brochures, which we are currently working on in class. This post I found is called:

Beautiful Brochures and Booklets:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/16/beautiful-brochures-and-booklets/

This post describes at first how brochures are used very often in the business and corporate world to give potential customers and clients a creative and brief glance at what they do. They are designed to be eye-catching and using many colors yet simple at the same time. Not too many of these samples show an extreme amount of detail. Again, another big part of the design in most of these brochures is creative typography and the proper layout and organization of texts. Color schemes are well thought out in a lot of these booklets. The first sample I show features browns, whites, and neon light blues.

Here are some samples of Brochures with simple yet dynamic design work: