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The Progressive Corporation: Annual Report 2020

An Annual Report with a Resilient Streak

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The George Gund Foundation: Annual Website 2019

A novel digital strategy that evokes hope and action

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The Progressive Corporation: Annual Report 2019

Thinking Broadly in Annual Report Design

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Array of spreads from the Bechtel annual report design

Bechtel: The Bechtel Report

An annual report designed to capture innovation

Bechtel: The Bechtel Report

An annual report designed to capture innovation

The Bechtel Report is a pivotal document for this global corporation, used to communicate with a multifaceted and diverse audience. The annual report design utilizes an underlying grid to guide the overall format. Using a minimalistic approach, N+S push the bounds of the underlying grid to capture progress and progression through design.

In the 2019 report, readers will find photography that spans the length of individual spreads, and that illustrates the expansive infrastructure Bechtel has built around the world. Using the grid in this way gave us a box to work in and against—illustrating our ability to refine brand elements in innovative and engaging ways.

The Work

Bechtel, an engineering, construction, and project management company, is known for realizing complex projects around the world. 

The Bechtel annual report cover design, featuring employee in foreground with West Nile Delta Terminal in background

Our collaboration began in 2014, when Bechtel brought us their annual report. The report is a pivotal document for the global corporation, used to communicate progress to their employees, directors, and customers as well as local, state, and national government agencies.

Bechtel provided a template for the report, which used an underlying grid to guide the format—but, at N+S, we've never really been ones to color in the lines.

Bechtel annual report design spread, titled "helping customers grow industries and economies" paired with motorway photograph

The Results

We take a minimalistic approach to our annual report design, pushing the bounds of Bechtel's underlying grid and perfecting its ability to capture progress and progression.

In The Bechtel Report for 2019, the photography helps to move the reader through the report, spanning the length of individual spreads in such a way that it pulls your eye across the expansive infrastructure that Bechtel has built around the world. These photographs are expertly balanced against white space that works to create clean, wide margins that pace readers, page by page, through the annual report.

Bechtel annual report design spread featuring photograph of NASA Mobile Launcher 1 Annual report design spread featuring detailed map with pinpoints for Bechtel's global projects Full-bleed spread showing photograph of Bechtel worker at the Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in the annual report design

N+S has never been one to work in the box—but our work within the grid illustrates our ability to refine brand elements in innovative, meticulous, and engaging ways.

Full-bleed spread in the annual report design showing photograph of Bechtel's Corpus Christi Liquefaction
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PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet

Bringing the photographer’s process into focus

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The George Gund Foundation: Identity

A brand that builds communities

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The George Gund Foundation: Annual Website

A fresh approach to web design for nonprofits

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Fairport Wealth: Identity

A brand identity for a company that builds more than just wealth

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CWRU School of Medicine: “Visionaries” Campaign

Envisioning the future of medical education

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The Progressive Corporation: 2018 Annual Report

A print and digital annual report that’s true to its name

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Ulmer Attorneys: Identity

A superior rebranding for a superior firm

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Logo design for FRONT International, featuring black and green typeface

FRONT International: Identity

A captivating brand identity for a citywide art triennial

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The George Gund Foundation: 2017 Annual Report

An annual report that gets political

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Cru Uncorked: Website, Menus, and More

Identity materials to savor for this French New American fine dining restaurant

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Nesnadny + Schwartz is a graphic design firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. Our creativity is grounded in logic, informed by research, and fed by the fine arts.

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Bechtel: The 2017 Annual Report

An annual report that dared to dream big

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Inside front cover of Changing Minds annual report design for The George Gund Foundation with photograph by Lisa Kessler

The George Gund Foundation: Changing Minds Exhibition

An exhibition that illuminates how Cleveland reenvisioned public education

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Nesnadny + Schwartz is a graphic design firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. Our creativity is grounded in logic, informed by research, and fed by the fine arts.

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Nesnadny + Schwartz is a graphic design firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. Our creativity is grounded in logic, informed by research, and fed by the fine arts.

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