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Design Category
Brand and identity systems design, 2000
Design firm
The Leonhardt Group (Seattle, Washington)
Collection
(2001) AIGA 365: 22

Description

The goal in this project was to produce the 1999 annual report for an audience consisting of investment analysts, shareholders and employees. Historically, Fisher has been involved in several disparate businesses. Recently, it has focused on becoming solely a communications and media company. Our idea was to create a manifesto-like report that acts to unequivocally clarify where they are headed, what business they are in and where the potential opportunities lie. Limited color, gritty photos and newsprint-like paper are used as signals for a company reinventing itself. A bold pictorial section describes industry conditions and opportunities, while a diagram deconstructs itself, page by page, in a section of vellum overlays.

Credits
Art director: Steve Watson
Designers: Steve Watson, Ben Graham
Project manager: Lori Kent
Photographer: Don Mason, stock
Writers: Steve Watson, Chris Wheeler
Typefaces: Interstate, Screen Metrix
Trim size: 12 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches
Printer: GAC/Allied
Papers: Zanders Vellum, NeeKosa Solution Gray
Software: Quark
Client: Fisher Companies, Inc.