Sales and marketing brochure design
We helped Green Retreats refresh their sales and marketing brochure, placing the customer experience at the centre of the design. By highlighting their journey, the brochure creates a more engaging and impactful sales tool.
Background
As the UK’s leading garden room company, Green Retreats has designed and installed over 12,000 garden rooms since its launch. The company enjoys a strong reputation built on exceptional product quality, outstanding customer service and dedicated after-care.
Challenge
With three distinct sub-brands – The Garden Office, Green Retreats, and Garden Studio – the sales team had been using separate brochures to showcase their products and services. While this approach had worked well in the past, Green Retreats recognised the need for a more efficient and cohesive strategy. The company decided to merge all three brochures into a single, impactful sales and marketing brochure. This would provide their sales team with a powerful tool to promote their full product range.
The brief extended beyond simply consolidating content. The new brochure design needed to capture and convey not only the quality, precision and craftsmanship behind Green Retreats’ products, but also the unique and inspirational customer experience that defines the brand.
Solution
To ensure a well-organised and engaging sales brochure, we divided the content into two distinct sections. The first focused on inspirational lifestyles, showcasing the many possibilities a garden room offers. The second section highlighted the rigorous build process, reinforcing trust and confidence in the product.
We gave each of the three sub-brands equal prominence while ensuring they all maintained their own distinct identity. To differentiate the product ranges clearly, we introduced colour-coded pages, making it easy for readers to identify each brand and navigate the brochure effortlessly.
We carefully crafted each page layout to mirror the clean, modern designs that define Green Retreats’ garden rooms. We structured the brochure with thoughtfully placed copy and high-quality imagery, ensuring it is both visually appealing and deeply engaging for prospective customers. Every page invites readers to imagine the possibilities, showcasing the lifestyle benefits each garden space can offer.
From cover to cover, we designed the brochure to inspire and engage, reflecting the creativity and attention to detail that Green Retreats brings to every project.
Just as Green Retreats takes pride in precision and craftsmanship, our design approach ensures that every detail, no matter how small, enhances the overall experience. Subtle font treatments nod to the concept of craftsmanship, reinforcing the brand’s dedication to quality. Copy is also carefully considered, written in a tone that is uplifting, inspiring and full of potential.
The brochure is rich with content, offering a diverse and dynamic presentation that keeps readers engaged from start to finish. Rather than simply listing information, we designed a visually immersive experience, incorporating a variety of creative elements to showcase Green Retreats’ offerings in an interactive and memorable way.
The design blends real-life case studies with detailed product insights, all presented in a fresh and engaging format. Fold-out pages create a sense of discovery, allowing for expanded storytelling and larger imagery, while transparent trace paper overlays add depth and intrigue, subtly revealing design details as readers turn the pages.
To further elevate the brochure’s appeal, we incorporated illustrations, realistic renders and iconography, making complex information more accessible while reinforcing Green Retreats’ modern and high-quality aesthetic. These elements work together to ensure that the brochure is not just an informative sales tool but also a visually captivating and playful piece of collateral that stands out and leaves a lasting impression.
The brochure combines inspirational photography with hand-drawn sketches, reinforcing the creative and customisable nature of the Green Retreats experience. The high-quality imagery showcases beautifully designed garden rooms in real-life settings, allowing potential customers to see the possibilities and imagine how these spaces could fit into their own lives.
Alongside these polished visuals, the inclusion of sketches and conceptual drawings serves as a subtle reminder that every garden room is a unique, personal creation.
One of the most engaging highlights of the marketing brochure is the realistic pop-up of a Green Retreats space, designed to transform the brochure into a memorable, interactive experience for the reader. Unlike traditional flat imagery, this three-dimensional element brings the concept of a garden room to life, offering a tactile and immersive glimpse into the possibilities of owning one.
The pop-up features a watercolour treatment, softening the visuals and adding a sense of warmth, familiarity and craftsmanship. Beyond its visual appeal, the interactive nature of the pop-up invites readers to engage with the brochure in a playful and hands-on way, making it more than just a sales tool – it becomes an experience in itself.
Since the sales and marketing brochure was designed to be mailed out as part of a premium portfolio case, which also included a room planner insert, weight management was a key consideration. To ensure both practicality and environmental responsibility, we selected a recycled paper stock. This choice not only helped keep the overall mailing weight within optimal limits but also reinforced Green Retreats’ commitment to sustainability, aligning the materials with their eco-conscious brand values.
Beyond design, we also oversaw the entire printing and production process, ensuring a smooth and cost-effective execution. With a total print volume of 15,000, the project required a logistically efficient approach. We began by developing a prototype of the pop-up, which was then manufactured in China to leverage specialised expertise. Meanwhile, the brochure itself was printed just outside London, and finally, the pop-up was carefully integrated into the brochure in Birmingham, bringing all the components together.
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Green Retreats Brand Ambassador Kevin McCloud browsing through the brochure.
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