Annual reports with a board deadline. The easy-read version that has to say the same thing in a way anyone can follow. Logos, posters, manuals, training packs and templates your team can reuse. Design is a standing service here — senior, experienced with public-sector and charity work, and drawn bespoke to your brief every time.
The full range, from a single poster to a hundred-page report
Diagnosis first
We do not quote until we understand what is actually going wrong. The first conversation is free, and it ends with a clear recommendation and a realistic figure — not a sales follow-up.
Four months to write. Read properly by nobody.
That is not a design problem discovered late in the process. It is a design problem from the first draft, because nobody decided what the reader should take away, or in what order they should meet it.
The other failure is quieter: the document that never gets made in the versions it needs. A report exists as one dense PDF, so the young people it is about never see it, the funder skims it, and the summary the chief executive needs for a board pack gets rebuilt in a slide deck at midnight. Meanwhile the poster goes up next to a leaflet in a different typeface, and the identity nobody wrote down drifts a little further apart.
We work the other way round. Who reads this, what should they be able to do afterwards, and which versions does that require. Then the layout, the data, the images and the reading order follow. Everything is drawn to your brief and your brand — nothing is pulled off a template library — and it is delivered print-ready, with editable templates for the things your team will remake next year.
The work itself
Drawn bespoke to your brief and your brand every time. Print-ready artwork with press liaison where you need it, and editable templates built in software your team already has.
Annual reports, end-of-year reviews, evaluations and impact summaries — structured so the findings land, with data drawn as charts a reader can interpret at a glance rather than tables they skip.
The same content, genuinely accessible — plain language, one idea per page, supporting imagery and a layout built for someone reading it for the first time. Prepared as its own document, not a shrunken copy of the main one.
Marks and identity for organisations, services, programmes and campaigns — built to work at the sizes you will actually use, with the rules written down so it survives contact with three different suppliers.
Posters, flyers, leaflets, corridor display, signage and wayfinding — designed for the wall it will hang on and the distance it will be read from, and supplied print-ready.
Handbooks, manuals, workbooks, training packs, facilitator resources, group agreements and session materials — laid out so somebody can use them under pressure without reading them twice.
Presentation and document templates built in the software you already have, with the styles set up properly so next year’s version does not drift. Fewer emergency design jobs, and a house style that holds.
Stage by stage
Every stage ends with something written and a decision that belongs to you. Nothing proceeds on an assumption we have not put in front of you.
The full seven-stage delivery method, with the deliverable at each stage
Ownership
Everything we make is handed over in full — the files, the code, the accounts, the documentation. Most clients stay with us because the working relationship earns it, not because anything is held back.
Before you email
Answered plainly, so you can rule us in or out without a meeting. If the answer you need is not here, ask — we will give you the same straight answer by email.
Yes. Writing and editing are available alongside design, and reports usually work better when the two are done together. If you would rather write it yourselves, we will give you a structure and a word count per section to write into.
Yes, that is the normal case. If the guidelines are thin or contradictory we will point out where they break and offer to tighten them — but we will not quietly redesign your identity inside a report job.
A separate document that carries the same information in plain language, with one idea per page and supporting imagery, designed for readers who find dense text a barrier. It is not the main report at a larger font size. For public bodies it is frequently a requirement, and it should be planned from the start rather than added at the end.
The number is stated in the scope, and each round expects one consolidated set of comments from your side. That keeps the price honest for both of us. Extra rounds are quoted before they are done.
We supply print-ready artwork, and we will manage the print and liaise with the press if you want us to. Print itself is charged at cost and quoted separately so you can see it.
Sometimes, and we will be honest about it rather than take the work and miss. If a deadline is genuinely fixed, tell us the date first — it changes what we recommend building.
Send a short outline of the work, your timeline and a budget range if you have one. We will come back with a written scope, an honest view of the risks, and a price.
Got a problem to solve? Tell us in a sentence — we reply within three working days.
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