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Use your corporate colors and design elements, such as curved rather than straight edges, to design and delineate the contents of your bulletin board. Select materials in keeping with your theme.

5. Establish a hierarchy. Hierarchy in design has less to do with popes and bishops and more to do with clearly communicating what a reader should see first, second, third, etc.