subject: Let Your Annual Report Designed By Top Design Agency [print this page] A corporations annual report should be well designed, informative, and up to date. It is the most crucial material that will keep board members, shareholders, and stakeholders up to date with how the company did in the previous year and how business was able to grow.
When planning to release your companys annual report, it is best to hire a top design agency to create and manage all the aspects required in producing the best design. Here are some aspects of how a design agency can help you with an annual report design:
1. Concept, design, and layout
Create a professional look by hiring a top design agency to work on your companys annual report. Design elements, content, photos, graphs and charts, can be easily compiled into on great magazine type annual report. All design elements of your company such as logos, color themes, and fonts will be used according to mandatory while design will be kept current and upbeat.
2. Photo Shoot Sessions
An annual report often includes the latest photos of company shots, photos of the board of directors, members, and other product or service related images. Top design companies will be able to provide you with professional photography services. Photo shoot sessions can also be easily coordinated while the stage of transferring of high resolution files from photographers to design to studio will be eliminated making the task easier, simpler, and faster. With this you will also be assured that photo shoot direction will be in perfect harmony with the annual report creative direction.
3. Conduct interviews of members of the company
An annual report will also require a keynote message from the chairman of the board of directors and messages from each member of the board. It is best to have an autonomous interviewing panel or group to conduct the interview to gather an objective point of view. Results of interviews will also be written in formal keynote messages which can be handled by copywriters from top design agencies.
4. Preparation of Final Artwork
Annual reports come as printed materials, often via offset printing. Compiling and converting files into final artwork renditions ready for offset printing requires technical know how and skills. A top design agency is equipped with software and know how on how to convert files into a format that will be used for color separation, proofing, and printing.
5. Production and Distribution
Once materials are composed, processed, and ready for printing, a design agency can also help you manage and supervise print production and distribution of materials.
To create and design the best annual report, some of the details or portions that you need to include are the latest news and announcements on the companys products, services, and other developments, inspirational messages from members of the company, photos and images of products and services, photos and images of people at work, statistical data presented in graphs and charts to represent growth, the companys mission, vision, and value statement, and the companys promise to its people and shareholders.
