Generally we commisioned professional art designer for journal promotion materials design.

I designed two pages of flyer for our journal with microsoft publisher. This software provides many color pattens and background selections. It makes the design become simple. The follows are several designs I tried to do . The first two design are almost the same but only the background is different.

In your mind which one is better?  Or what are your suggestions?

Design 1

Design 2

Design 3

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