Direct or through agencies. Is your company moving from traditional print and advertising work to web design? Do the companies that you now create online material for still want newsletters, brochures and magazines? If so, you could retain that part of their business by outsourcing these publications to DLA for design, layout & production. There’s no need to leave the print design revenue behind.
From concept to final product, cross-media coordination is kept in mind whether refreshing an existing brand or creating an image for a new business. Image retouching, Photoshop artwork, concepts, page make-up. Magazines, stationery, banners, websites and 3D production mockups.
Weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies
or one-offs
Direct clients
Regular magazines, newletters and brochures can be very influential with your workforce and customers, breathing life into what your company stands for. They can create high visibility for products and services as well as giving readers a sense of involvement, keeping everyone informed about what's new in your marketplace.
Agencies — how it could work for you
Depending on how you like to work, you could also remove yourselves from a large part of the production process, for instance you don’t have to go through the hassle of shuttling all the raw copy, images and PDFs back and forth – here’s a method that works for current clients and could work for you too: set up a new email address on your servers (for example mag.production@your-company-name.xxx). Doing this on your own server means that DLA doesn’t need any information more delicate than an email password. Set it up to forward to DLA and your own mailbox so that you can monitor emails at your leisure. All outgoing emails would be BCC’d to you and have a signature of your choosing.
Confidentiality
Absolutely NONE of your clients would be contacted about moving their business away from your company – this is a matter of trust and good business practice and is taken seriously, there are no hidden agendas.
Nitty-gritty
In the case of a brand-new publication, design from scratch is quotable and in addition to the normal charges. Once in production though, the normal charges are in place except for special circumstances.
Basic graphic design elements and page furniture are included in the charges. Graphics requiring complex artworking will be discussed before going ahead.
If outsourcing print production is of interest to you, let's make an arrangement for a free preliminary meeting and see how we get on.
Clients include
Pharma sector agencies: DLA produces a great deal of design and artwork for multi-national brand names. Brochures, advertising, e-invites, patient-facing and exhibition material.
Store Promotions Ltd.; a specialist field/experiential marketing company. Branding design, promotional material and stationery.
WillC: website produced in Flash for photographer Billy Carter, maintained by DLA.
AgeUK charity (formerly Age Concern); reports, brochures, leaflets, stationery for two borough offices.
Server City; branding update, from business cards to t-shirts to information packs. Commissioned by lightsourcemedia.
Stephen James; BMW dealership 'SJ' logo refresh for stationery and website. The dealerships range across London. Both the Thames and the motorway are visually represented within the logo.
Global Action UK charity; a complete project, with all aspects of the brand - stationery, website, customer and publicity materials - created from the ground up as it was entirely new in the UK.
nlbeat.com: North London Beat is a website developed between journalist Andrew Warshaw and DLA to feature and promote the grass-roots pub & club music scene, plus reviewing many of the visiting headline acts appearing in the north London area.
Other work includes brochures, newsletters, promotions for Brain & Spine Foundation, TradeTech, Nightingale Community Hospice Trust, Enfield Council's Enfield in Bloom projects and several other charities and companies.
