Annual Reports
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Looking for some clean and well designed annual reports, bilingual if possible.
Cheers!
- ian0
I absolutely hate annual reports, having worked for a company who specialises in them, I worked on about 30 or so over the course of three years. But heres a site I used to go to, you have to wade through a fair amount of poo but theres some good ones.
http://www.annualreports.com/Also check this one out, brilliant concept!
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/13…Then theres this guy who does his own report each year, lovely infographics.
http://www.feltron.com/
- uncle_helv0
http://www.cartlidgelevene.co.uk…
To find the actual pdfs, I find this works...
Google > "Cartlidge Levene" + "Annual Report" + PDF- Yes, thats usually a good place to start. They do some good stuff.ian
- ian0
Oh, this is the last one I did. Needless to say a lot changed from the initial concept once the client requested their changes. (link to a pdf, incase the end of the url doesn't show up.)
- ********0
thanks
the Feltron reports are brilliant btw!
- Yeah, they've been posted up a few times recently so was already in my head when you posted!ian
- ********0
word has standard templates, no? :p
- neue75_bold0
http://www.dietwee.nl a lot of the nice ones from Dietwee were done by Robin Uleman http://www.robinuleman.nl
- ********0
Word can barely typeset a letter.
I worked for an annual report agency for 8 years, as a typesetter and web developer. I have a phobia of the things now. Personally, if I was an investor, I'd rather pocket more of the profits than receive some fucking spot-varnished, uncoated, gate-folded piece of crap with photos of company directors who are consistently the most hideously ugly examples of human beings.
- neue75_bold0
here's a good link to view a great example of what an annual report can be with an open-minded client – http://www.adcglobal.org/awards/…
- neue75_bold0
Howry have done some good ones –
http://www.howry.com/so have cahan associates, not that you can view anything on their site...
- yeah damn C&A for doing that! i used to love looking thru their folio.forcetwelve
- ********0
cheers snuggles! just what I was looking for!
- ian0
Check out Browns too, they did the C4 annual reports but other ones too:
http://www.brownsdesign.co.uk/
- ********0
that's all well and good snuggles, but the majority of companies out there do things like dig holes in the ground, sell cranes, make traffic lights, or blend cement.
All the open-minds in the world wont make them interesting.
- detritus0
I like the stuff QBN's very own Tracy Gunn does..
http://www.tracygunn.co.uk/repor…
- neue75_bold0
Insinger De Beaufort is a private bank, so not very interesting at all either... not sure what your point is...
if you have a good idea and can create an interesting story to tell, you can make anything interesting...
that's kind of our job...
- *damps eye with petticoat edge* That was beautiful, man.detritus
- uncle_helv0
Channel 4 by NB Studio... (PDF)
http://www.channel4.com/about4/a…- Thats nice, wonder what the font is for the main body copy?ian
- Think it's this... http://www.fontsmith…uncle_helv
- aw shit. fucking need to take 'good attention to detail off the cv so'.ian
- Hahahaha!uncle_helv
- ********0
I know it's our job, but I just think annual reports are completely superfluous to anyone's needs. Nobody looks at them! If they do, they go straight to the figures.
- ok, now I can agree with that... but that also applies to 80% of other things 'we' do...neue75_bold
- Its just another way to advertise a brand, to reinforce the opinions that shareholders and investors view the company.ian
- hark at me, Ive been brainwashed,ian
- forcetwelve0
moth - i dont agree. often they are sent to shareholders and prospective clients of the companies. they're a good record of a companys progress from year to year.
- scribbler0
I've got a whole heap of PDF's that I regularly collect, quite happy to email you some designerror.
Have a look at some IBM ones, and Radleys always produce some lovely clean reports. Eurostar produced a beautiful bi-lingual report a couple of years back.
- ********0
cheers people, great help!
- scribbler0
here you go, it's the 2003 summary