20 Stunning Social Media Templates for The New Year

Thursday, December 30, 2021

November and December can be an exciting Holiday season, but designers can get super loaded with projects for creating various designs related to the new year. This ranges from promotional marketing offers, social media posts, and other digital marketing assets to even print media like postcards, invitations, and a lot more. Each year the designing trends vary, and based on that, designers have to pick up what works best for their project and use that to create effective designs.

The overload of new year-related designs leads to an overall dip in the quality of the designs. While browsing through social media, you will find many posts that are similar to each other. This happens mainly because designers spend less time creating original designs and using available ready-made designs. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using templates, but as a designer, you need to take care that you use creative and fresh templates that make your designs exclusive and stand out. To help you with that, we are proud to showcase these 20 amazing-looking social media templates for the New Year. 

1. Classy New Year Social Media Post in Golden Tone

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Classy New Year Social Media Post in Golden Tone

The majority of designers will go for the routine red or green color for social media posts related to the new year. However, you can make your design stand out by using this very classy template with the new year wishes in the subtle background with a golden tone. The overall look of the post is very classy, minimal, and to the point. The light gradient in the background and formation of the Christmas Tree and gift using basic shapes makes the template a good choice for premium brands. 

2. Vibrant Colors Typography

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Vibrant Colors Typography

If the first item was very simple, then this second is the opposite as it is very trendy and cool. The design is predominantly based on the smart typography created for writing ‘2022’. Vibrant colors are used throughout the design, and various party elements are sprinkled beside the number typography. The template is available in an editable format in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The designs are print-ready if you want to use them for New Year Party invitations or posters.

3. New Year Instagram Stories With Hand Drawn Illustrations

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: New Year Instagram Stories With Hand Drawn Illustrations

Instagram stories are at the moment one of the best ways to push out your content. Hence you cannot be left behind when wishing New Year through Instagram stories. You can use these ready-to-use stories that feature hand-drawn illustrations. In addition, it features two people in the party mode and many other party elements embedded in the design. There are four different designs available. You can either choose one or mix up the elements as per need.

4. End of Year Sale Instagram Bundle

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: End of Year Sale Instagram Bundle

New Year is incomplete with massive sales that the majority of the brands announce. If you are a Business-to-Customer company, you should also explore announcing an end-of-year sale for your brand. This Instagram bundle can be very useful for announcement posts. It allows you to wish your users a Happy New Year and offers a lot of creative ways to inform them about the sales. The bundle comes with a set of editable and ready-to-use stunning 60 animated Instagram stories and 15 posts. 

5. Social Media Post Template with 2022 Typography

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Social Media Post Template with 2020 Typography

For most of the projects, you will need to use standard social media post templates that adhere to the latest design trends. This editable template from Adobe Stock fits nicely for that. The base design is simple and uses basic shapes, flowing gradients, and contrasting colors. Four designs provide various content options, including event invitations and basic Happy New Year wishes. Because you get its editable file, you can always tweak the colors and content to fit your needs.

6. Chinese New Year Instagram Stories

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Chinese New Year Instagram Stories

The New Year holds a lot of important Chinese and other South-Asian people. If your brand wishes to target this demography, you need to design your creativity, keeping that in mind. This template can be very resourceful. It consists of 9 Instagram stories varied in color, design elements, and messaging, including sales announcements. The files are editable in Adobe Photoshop in the form of organized layers. The photographs are placed through simple, smart objects making it easy for designers to change them to add their photographs. 

7. Trendy New Year Cover Image Template

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Trendy New Year Cover Image Template

Apart from posts, you will also be assigned to create beautiful social media cover images. It is always a good idea to keep changing the cover images of your social media handle based on trending topics. This cover image template features two people with wine glasses in their hands and is well supported by new year party elements in the backdrop. The background is a heavy purple color, and new year wishes are set as nice typography. As you can access the editable file of the cover image, you can rescale it to use this image for all social media handle covers.

8. New Year Inspirational Quote Post Bundle

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: New Year Inspirational Quote Post Bundle

The New Year will also bring a lot of positivity and motivation, and a majority of this will be well displayed on social media in the form of quotes. We will see users reinforce their New Year resolutions in the form of inspirational quotes. This new year quote bundle package offers 100 quotes in PNG and JPEG format. They come with ready-to-post content. But if you need, you can always edit or add elements to the quote design. The good part is that these quote designs are very resourceful and can be used around the year.  

9. Trendy Christmas & New Year Social Media Posts

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Trendy Christmas & New Year Social Media Posts

Many brands often wish Christmas and Happy New Year together and hence need such integrated posts. This pack of four social media posts comes with a combination of Christmas and new year. Both the festive wishes are included. The design overall is very trendy with the use of festive colors. Illustrations of standard festive elements like Christmas Tree, gifts, reindeer, and others, along with highly creative typography, are used. This template is highly recommended if you want to impress your userbase with your design creativity.

10. New Year Designs in Indigo Background

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: New Year Designs in Blue Background

Time for change – is the message of this template, and it is very relevant. Designed on a good Indigo background, this new year’s social media template relies heavily on the number typography. 2022 is written creatively, including using a clock in place of number zero. Other than that, the design is kept simple, which lets the typography stand out in a better way. The design can be used in various forms for social media or even for New Year Party invites. 

11. Kids Related Instagram Stories Template

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Kids Related Instagram Stories Template

If you plan to wish Happy New Year through Instagram stories in a very loud and quirky way, then this template will be useful. The design of these stories is very smartly done. They include many elements related to the new year in the form of wine glasses, bottles, clocks, gifts, crackers, and more. There are four different layouts, out of which two layouts allow the use of photographs. You can use this space to personalize your festive greetings by including a photograph of yourself or your team, or your brand.

12. New Year Carousel Kit

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: New Year Carousel Kit

Apart from new year wishes, many brands come up with creative content related to flashbacks or memories of the brand or people involved throughout the year. This New Year Carousel kit comes loaded with a variety of Instagram posts and templates that you can use for posting content related to New Year. While some of them are graphic-based, the majority of them are photograph-based. But the good part is that you get the editable files, so you can change the photographs or design elements as per need.    

13. Abstract Fireworks Instagram Stories Template

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Abstract Fireworks Instagram Stories Template

New Year is synonymous with fireworks in many regions of the world. The new year is always welcomed with a spectacular fireworks display. This sentiment is used in this Instagram stories template. Fireworks of different forms, sizes, and colors are created slightly abstractly. They are well placed on top of a dark blue background. These abstract fireworks make the stories look more creative and memorable. Because you get the editable files, you should add your branding in terms of logo and other content.   

14. New Year Party Instagram Post

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: New Year Party Instagram Post

Are you organizing a New Year Party and sending out its invites on social media? Then you need to get this template pack. You will get nine different creatives using which you can invite people for a party, wish them a new year, and inform them about your brand offers and other details. The design is kept simple with the use of basic elements along with photograph smart objects. Upon purchasing this set, you will get editable files nicely organized in layers, including smart objects for photos.

15. New Year Sales Instagram Story

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: New Year Party Instagram PostNew Year Sales Instagram Story

Apart from standard new year wishes, you will also want to inform your users about the special end-of-year sale that your brand is offering. For that, you need to get this pack of new year’s sales Instagram story templates. The designs are flashy, and that helps you get users’ attention. It also allows you to include photographs of your brand or happy customers. Moreover, there is sufficient space for you to add your branding and all the sales details. 

16. Startup Style New Year Posts

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Startup Style New Year Posts

While all corporates and customer-based brands are busy posting their new year greetings on social media, startups often feel left out. So we have specially included this template which has some highly creative social media posts for wishing the new year. The posts rely heavily on flat illustrations, which include standard startup design assets like idea bulb, hourglass, clock, target, and a lot more. When you get this pack, you get access to the open file, which you can use to change colors, text and add your own branding. 

17. Happy New Year Post Set with Flat Illustrations

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Happy New Year Post Set with Flat Illustrations

Flat illustrations are one of the design trends you should use for your new year social media posts. This set offers six different designs for wishing the new year to the users. The overall layout and composition remain the same, but the festive elements keep changing along with the content placement. This is a smart choice for a template for brands who want to be perceived as cool, quirky, and trendy.

18. Oriental New Year Instagram Post

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Oriental New Year Instagram Post

To add inclusivity to your designs, it would not be a bad idea to have oriental designs when posting the new year’s festive greetings. You can decide this based on your target audience. This pack of new year Instagram posts includes nine different creative designs. Orange and yellow are used as the base colors, and many design elements are set on top of it. The various designs include templates for promotional offers as well.  

19. Vibrant Social Media Cover Image

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Vibrant Social Media Cover Image

We have not missed out on including more social media cover images options. This template is very cool and can give your brand a very refreshing look. The year 2022 is written in fancy typography over a white background. Outline fonts are used above bold pastel color numbers, which is the highlight of the entire image. In addition, there are many new year party elements like masks, hats, confetti, and other elements. Do note that cover image sizes for all social media platforms are different, and hence you will have to use the editable file of this image to resize it.

20. Chinese New Year – Year of the Tiger

Stunning Social Media Creatives for wishing Happy New Year: Chinese New Year - Year of the Tiger

The year 2022 will be the year of the Tiger as per the Chinese calendar. Therefore you will observe many new year creatives using illustrations of Tiger or some other elements related to this majestic animal in the designs. This set of social media posts also uses a superbly designed Tiger Face illustration. The illustration is given a golden gradient based on black background, which makes it look further appealing. As the focus is on the Tiger, no space is given for other content. But you can edit and create space to add your branding. 

Conclusion

Designing social media creatives for the new year is a laborious and challenging task, given the huge number of such creatives made and shared. Hence designers must come up with something unique and creative, which makes the social media post more effective. The 20 design assets shared above have been collated from some of the most reliable sources. You can save time and use these templates to create visually appealing social media creatives for the new year.  

From all of us at WebDesignDev – Happy New Year!

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