Design service / Print

Print Design.

Press-ready layouts, every format.

Brochure to press Tuesday. Dielines on the wrong layer, cover still RGB, preflight kicks it back before lunch.

So prepress is the first conversation, not the last.

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Shanghai studio / Design

Hardcover monograph and a perfect-bound editorial catalog open on a plaster worktable beside a stack of folded brochures. Editorial

Why it earns the budget

The brochure on
the desk wins.

Digital travels further. Trust has moved the other way. A brochure on a buyer's desk earns more attention than ten retargeting ads.

Print also punishes sloppy work. One misregistered Pantone on a 6-sheet and the trust evaporates.

82% of U.S. consumers trust print advertising, the highest of any ad format. MarketingSherpa, 2024.

A printed brochure on a sunlit walnut desk beside an espresso cup, a metal pen and a closed slim laptop.
The desk test

Across 40 print engagements: approval up from 22% to 78%, cost down 60%, output 7x. No new hires.

22% Creative approval rate Up from 22% before
0% Lower content cost On recent campaigns
0x Asset output Without a single new hire

The work, defined

Every format, one brand system.

A 200-page catalog and a highway billboard share almost nothing in their craft. We staff each format with art directors who've done it before, on one brand system.

Two open editorial spreads on a warm plaster surface, a large-format magazine and a slim hardcover annual report.
Editorial & brand

Coverage

Long-read editorial and brand systems.

Brochures, catalogs, look-books, magazines, annual reports, white papers, stationery. Formats that get read. Typography earns its space; the grid holds across a hundred pages.

In scope

  • Brochures
  • Catalogs
  • Look-books
  • Annual reports
  • White papers
  • Stationery
A six-sheet poster on a weathered brick wall in golden hour light beside the edge of a transit shelter.
Retail, OOH & events

Coverage

High-impact, three-second print.

Print that has to land from across an aisle, or from a moving car.

In-store kit, OOH from 6-sheet to 96-sheet, transit and airport, building wraps to OAAA specs. Booths, retractables, wayfinding, credentials. Direct mail, PR boxes, variable data.

In scope

  • Retail & POS
  • Out-of-home
  • Transit & airport
  • Building wraps
  • Trade-show
  • Direct mail

Contact sheet

Selected proofs.

Authored work, never a stock pull.

Open beauty look-book on a sandstone slab, a single skincare bottle on the left page and the Maven wordmark on the right.
Maven Beauty look-book
Coral-red Solano shelf-talker, wobbler and hanging banner laid flat on a concrete surface under hard directional light.
Solano FMCG retail POS
Letterpress invitation suite on cream cotton stock with a deep navy Lirien wordmark and deckled paper edges.
Lirien Hospitality invitation
Premium dealer brochure standing on a stained-oak counter, a half-profile coupe on the cover and a small Veld wordmark at the foot.
Veld Automotive brochure
Clothbound annual report open on pale concrete, a serif headline on the left page and the Polaris Bio mark reversed out of a navy band.
Polaris Bio Pharma annual report
A 96-sheet billboard against an overcast sky carrying a single chilled bottle and the Bevra wordmark above a bus shelter.
Bevra Beverage OOH
A four-colour offset press in mid-run with a freshly printed sheet being lifted at the delivery end.
A printer's hands checking a press sheet at a lightbox with a loupe magnifier.
1–5 wks Approved design to delivered units

Optional capability

Need it printed too?
We can handle that.

Optional. Most clients hand files to their own printer.

If you don't have one, we run production across offset, digital, wide-format and specialty presses. Soft-touch, spot UV, foil, emboss, die-cut, FSC stocks: the finishes printers quietly drop.

  • FSC stocks
  • Soy inks
  • ISO 12647
  • NDA in place

One to three weeks for standard work, three to five for large-format OOH with install.

Already have a printer? We deliver press-ready files matched to their specs and step back.

Our process

Creative is where
it's won.

AI made the technical side cheap. Picking the layout that's worth printing is the part that's still hard.

First two steps win it. The rest is execution.

Folded mock-up brochure, paper-stock swatch book, Pantone guide fanned out, marker and steel ruler on a worktable.
Where it is won

Brief and print spec.

Format, stock, finish, binding, print method, supplier, regulatory copy. Locked before the first sketch.

An art director leaning over a worktable covered in printed layout proofs, marking a single page with a pencil.
Where it is won

Creative direction.

Art directors set the grid, the type hierarchy, the image cadence, and the cover the rest earns its way around.

A wall pinned with twenty printed variations of the same brochure cover, arranged in a grid.
The rest is execution

AI exploration.

Dozens of layout directions in parallel. Photoreal mockups in context, before a sample is ordered.

A printer’s hands inspecting a press sheet at a lightbox with a loupe, crop marks and a colour bar at the edge.
The rest is execution

Refinement and prepress.

Typography, master pages, color management, dielines, ink coverage, preflight on the final PDF.

Five language variants of the same brochure cover laid out side by side on a long worktable.
The rest is execution

Adaptation at scale.

Market variants, format extensions, language localization. EN to FR or DE expands 15 to 30%; ZH, KR, JP contracts. No reflowing every page.

Where it's going

How AI rewrote
print design.

Three documented shifts since 2025. The economics of print design moved sharply, fast.

Filed 2025 / Nestlé · NVIDIA Omniverse
70% Less time & cost

Digital twins of four thousand products.

Nestlé built an AI content service on NVIDIA Omniverse, generating localized packaging from digital twins of 4,000 SKUs. Time and cost of scaling cut over 70%.

Filed May 2025 / Coca-Cola · Adobe Fizzion
10x Faster than manual

A brand system that learns itself.

Coca-Cola launched Fizzion with Adobe in May 2025. It learns a brand's system, then generates hundreds of localized variants inside Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. Up to ten times faster than manual.

Filed 2025 / PRINTING United Alliance
85% Of print providers

The industry stops hedging.

PRINTING United Alliance, 2025: 85% of print service providers now call AI critical to staying competitive. Most are piloting it in prepress, estimating and workflow.

One to two weeks for a standard piece. Three to four for a multi-format campaign. Add 1 to 5 weeks for printing.

Art directors from agency backgrounds (Publicis, Ogilvy, WPP) lead. AI specialists handle volume. Prepress by people who have been on press.

You own the final deliverables. We use commercially safe models and document the workflow. Full detail in our Copyright and AI guide .

Yes. One brief, two weeks, three layout directions and a production estimate. No retainer.

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Try it on a real
brief.

Send us a print job. Inside two weeks: three layout directions and a production estimate. Yours to keep, even if you walk.

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