Brochure design for Irish businesses

Brochures people actually read

Most brochures get a glance and a bin. The ones that survive are the ones laid out so a reader can find what they came for in a few seconds, then keep reading because the next thing is where they expected it to be. That is most of the job, and it happens before anything looks pretty.

We design brochures for businesses, councils and charities across Ireland, and a good share of the work is for clients in Dublin who want somebody they can phone. Product ranges, corporate profiles, event programmes, service guides. If it folds or binds and somebody has to read it, we have laid one out.

What working with us is like

You send whatever you have. Finished copy and photographs, or a rough idea and a deadline, both are fine, though the first costs less because we are not writing and sourcing as we go. We come back the same day with a price and a timeline.

Then we lay out a section so you can see the shape of it before the whole thing is built. That is the point to argue about type size and where the contact details sit. Once the layout is agreed the rest follows quickly, and you see proofs at every stage rather than one reveal at the end.

Print, and the part people forget

A brochure is a printed object before it is a design, and printers are unforgiving. Pages run in multiples of four because of how sheets fold, so a twenty six page brochure does not exist. Bleed has to be right or you get white slivers on the trimmed edge. Images need enough resolution for the press rather than the screen.

We set all of that up and check it before anything goes out, because a mistake found at the printer costs money and a week. We can also write the print specification, get it quoted and manage the job through to delivery if you would rather not deal with that yourself. We did exactly that for Carlow County Council’s 88 page annual report, in English and Irish.

Brochure design across Ireland

We work with clients in Dublin, Cork, Galway and everywhere between, mostly by email and phone, which is how brochure work tends to go anyway. Files arrive ready for your printer, or we hand them to ours.

If the brochure is part of something bigger, branding and logo design are the usual companions, and annual report design is the same discipline at greater length. Tell us what you need and you will have a price today.