This innovative newsletter design feels like a premium magazine, where traditional articles are replaced with feature stories, and where quality photography helps audiences engage and identify with the varied content.

Challenge

Our brief was to create something much more friendly and informal than a company brochure, but which still allowed Alere to get across corporate and product messages. The newsletter was conceived as a communications piece to showcase our client’s new brand to its maximum effect, so a traditional design wouldn’t have carried the desired impact.

Solution

Our solution is rooted in innovation in newsletter design – it has more of a magazine feel, where page layouts are closer to a leading magazine than a traditional corporate newsletter.

Our client’s new brand style encouraged the use of distinctive black and white photography, adding the perfect accent to a newsletter design that feels fresh and contemporary, encouraging the target audience to pick the newsletter up.

When complemented with the dynamic brand colour palette, it allowed us to balance lifestyle and product imagery to create page layouts that are attractive yet informative.

“We find it tremendously efficient working with Parker Design.

Having direct access to their designers means that we can maximise our marketing spend.

Not only that, they excel in the creative stakes and consistently deliver a first class service

that we’ve come to rely on, sometimes against very tight deadlines.”

To add an extra element to the newsletter design, we shied away from the expected A4 size, instead designing the newsletter to an oversized square format, together with bespoke square envelopes for it to be sent out in.

To ensure the newsletter design appealed to all the senses, we printed on a heavy uncoated cartridge paper giving it a tactile feel that stays in the minds of audiences.

A nice finishing touch was the die cut radius corner on the top right hand of the cover, echoing the shape of the new Alere logo, and embedding the new brand in the mind of the reader from the moment they first hold the newsletter.

The finished design was a huge hit not only with Alere, and more importantly with their customers. We went on to design a scaled down version for a different area of Alere’s business, following the same format. The success of the newsletter was confirmed when Alere’s European businesses took our model and replicated it as part of their brand launch across Europe.