Archive for Corporate Documents

Walking the talk with Bolton Council

As part of our continuing relationship with Bolton Council, we were recently briefed to produce an Oral Blending document. The document is to be used by those working in early year’s education as a tool for their day-to-day resource library focusing mainly on aspects of speech and language. The document was also accompanied with a [...]

A new species

Like the story of the ugly duckling who became a beautiful swan, Portfolio is the kind of agency that can take what seems like a fairly mundane brief and turn it into a piece of well designed, engaging and reader friendly communication. So following on from our success with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s 2009/10 annual [...]

A timeless classic

Creating an advert for Rowlinson to be published in CWB magazine the challenge was to maintain the heritage of the brand while reflecting the demands of the modern teenager. Taking care of everything from sourcing the models to producing the final artwork, the photography contrasted both the brand’s past and its future by featuring old cast iron gates [...]

Explore Timberland

  The 20 pages of articles cover everything from upcoming campaigns to new store opening hours. In keeping with the adventurous spirit of the brand, the magazine is called Explore and is designed to communicate to all Timberland UK staff, getting them onboard with forthcoming promotional events and other activities.

LPA Evidence of our achievements

One of the pieces receiving praise at the CiB awards was the Evidence of Our Achievements booklet. Designed to inform local people about just what a police authority is and explain the work they do, it was named Communication of the Year, gained a prestigious Best Publication award and also received a merit for Design. [...]

Producing Bolton Council’s CPD booklets PDQ

The CPD booklets focus on various areas of educational expertise and are designed to give all staff, including teachers and school governors’ access to events and training aimed at improving performance and enhancing their careers. The finished booklets featured attractive colour combinations and subtle illustrations, bringing together elements of functionality and design to give the [...]

Wildlife Trust (LWT) annual report

In 2010 Portfolio were proud to produce the Lancashire Wildlife Trust (LWT) Annual Report. The report details the projects undertaken by the LWT over the year and how these projects have enriched not only the habitats which the LWT strive to protect, but the lives of community members across the township of Bolton whom partake [...]

Schoolwear brochure gets us top marks

As the UK’s largest and most successful manufacturer of personalised schoolwear, Rowlinson have worked with Portfolio for a number of years. One recent project we’ve undertaken for them was a brochure, designed as a tool to showcase Rowlinson’s growing portfolio of brands and help retailers sell Rowlinson products into schools. Well educated in what makes [...]

Bringing a better tomorrow to Blackpool’s people

When it came to telling smokers in Blackpool how quitting could improve their health, Blackpool NHS came to Portfolio. Through the campaign ‘A better tomorrow’ we produced a range of work aimed at visitors, staff and patients at the town’s Victoria Hospital. This included external 6-sheet posters, internal posters for reception areas, information leaflets offering [...]