Simmons Internal Announcements
This is a branded email design, developed for internal communications.
Unlike most of our email marketing efforts, many of these internal emails do not have landing sites, and it's therefore a little more difficult to measure their effectiveness; yet, they appear to be highly successful in driving attendance and awareness of important events.
I am particularly fond of the fade used on the second banner below, and how it relates to the background color, as well as the little details, such as the acorn glyph.