Editorial design that makes a deadline every month, not just the first one.
Magazines, annual reports, brochures, coffee-table books and awards publications, designed and produced to print standards. We build the design system for the title once, then produce each issue on a schedule with templates that make layout fast, consistent and ready for the press without a last-minute scramble.
Per issue schedules, typically 2 to 4 weeks
Per issue or monthly retainer
Content & Production
Editorial design system
Grid, typographic hierarchy, colour, section openers, feature styles and advertising specifications, documented so every issue looks like the same title.
Issue layout and production
Each issue laid out from the edited text and selected images, with proofing rounds, corrections and final press-ready files with bleed, colour profiles and fonts handled.
Templates and automation
Page templates and partly automated layouts for recurring sections such as listings, profiles and directories, cutting production time without lowering quality.
Covers and features
Cover concepts, feature spreads, infographics and illustration commissioned or produced in house.
Digital editions
The same issue as a web edition, a flipbook or social cut-downs, so the print investment works online as well.
Print liaison
Paper, finishes and quantities specified with the printer, proofs checked and the schedule managed to the press date.
System
The title's design system built or refreshed, with templates for every recurring page type.
Flatplan
Each issue planned page by page with editorial and advertising positions agreed.
Layout
Pages produced, proofed and corrected on a published schedule.
Press
Final files delivered to print specification, with the digital edition alongside.
- Editorial design system and templates
- Issue layouts, proofed and corrected
- Press-ready files to printer specification
- Cover and feature design
- Digital edition
- Advertising specification sheet
Every issue is a rush and the designer is the bottleneck.
The title looks different from one month to the next.
You publish an annual report or awards book once a year and dread it.
You want the print issue to live online too.
The questions every client asks on the first call, answered here so the call can be about your situation instead.
Copywriting and editing are part of the same practice and can be included. Many publishers bring edited text and we design; others hand us the whole issue.
Yes. We document and tidy the existing system, then produce issues with it, rather than forcing a redesign.
Edited text, images or a brief for images, the advertising list and the press date. The flatplan is built with you.
We do not print, but we specify, liaise with the printer and check proofs so the files are right the first time.
Tell us what's going on with magazine & editorial design.
Describe the situation in a few lines. You get a straight answer on whether this is the right fix, and a start date.
Within one working day, IST (UTC+5:30).