Chapter 7. Designing Annual Reports

Figure 7.1. 

 

 

 

“BEAUTY OF STYLE AND HARMONY AND GRACE AND GOOD RHYTHM DEPEND ON SIMPLICITY.”

 
 --Plato

Among the handful of jewels in the crowns of graphic designers is the annual report. Partly this is because so much attention is paid to annual reports. There, encapsulated in a sleek and slender booklet, is the distillation of an entire company for all the world to see. Of course, at the heart of it, the annual report is really just a thinly veiled, multipage advertisement whose job it is to paint a pretty picture of the company it represents, with the hope of enticing monetary participation from potential investors. ...

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