Annual Reports: 6 designs that caught our attention

One of the best ways to highlight your company's unique culture, as well as highlight the latest steps taken, is to improve the presentation of your Annual Reports using stylish designs and eye-catching presentation techniques.

Companies generally release their annual report at the end of the first quarter, after consolidating financial data, goals, and results for the coming year. These annual reports are extremely important for businesses because they reflect not only their performance, but also their ambitions and their lives. Whether you're creating a report offline or digitally, your company's annual report should be thoughtful and thoughtful in design to appeal to all stakeholders. Here are 6 annual reports we liked in 2018:

1. AEGIS Annual Report

The layout of any report is crucial to the overall impact that a business is trying to communicate to its stakeholders. It has long been known that we are much better able to capture information presented in visuals rather than text. It is therefore essential to find the right balance to obtain a digestible ratio. The bottom line here is that the visual should communicate most of the information and that the accompanying text should list the main takeaways. AEGIS 2016 Annual Report Review solves this problem by presenting the “big questions” in large print to increase engagement, while providing the details in adjacent pages.

2. O'right Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Using the cover page of your report to show the ethics of your business is a great way to get attention. A Taiwanese hair care brand called O'right used an eco-friendly box for its three booklets by making it from 100% renewable plastic shampoo bottles. Continuing with this innovative design, the front and back covers are made of Moso bamboo, which illustrates the company's commitment to sustainable development. The judges of the Red Dot Awards were impressed and awarded the company the Communications Design Award in 2017.

3. Nuru International Annual Report

People respond to others. Using personal stories in your report can be a powerful tool to demonstrate the impact of your business on local communities. It's easy to get lost in facts and figures when looking through reports of this kind, which can be a bit information-heavy. Therefore, including human stories from people directly affected by a company's work is a great way to engage with the reader. Nura International's annual report outlines the company's strategy to develop sustainable solutions to lift communities out of poverty by sharing stories that are enriching for smallholder farmers.

4. NIS annual report

Combining images, animations, graphics, and a timeline of events provides an alternative way for a business to communicate its growing number of key pieces of information. Such illustrations make statistical information easy to present and to interpret. Grab the attention of your readers with these design elements and get your message across quickly and effectively. In addition to its futuristic cover page, the 2014 NIS Annual Report successfully used hyper-suggestive graphical elements, reminiscent of infographics, tables, and data charts, to support the informational aspect of the report, all in an effort to highlight the information.

5. Pacific Life 2015 Report

Consistency is essential to the design of a good report or a Powerpoint presentation in general. Organize your content around a beautiful theme so that the pages in a report look like they belong together. In Pacific Life's 2015 annual report, the company used a pervasive ocean theme that helps bring beauty and vitality to every page. Fifth Column Media is inspired by Pacific Life in an effort to “position Pacific Life as a living, living, and energetic entity and to remind the public that Pacific Life is more than a life insurance company.”

6. CWS Capital Partners 2015 Report

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Whether you choose a cutting-edge digital annual report that is completely interactive and deeply engaging, or a simple page with facts and figures, you can make it stand out with the smallest graphical adjustment. Call on Pokeslide, the Powerpoint Agency. the Powerpoint Agency for the conceptualization of modern, coherent and unique annual reports.

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