Annual Report Design.

20+ years of experience | Australia-wide | Direct-to-designer studio

Trusted by businesses across mining, property, agribusiness, government, and corporate sectors.

20+ years of investor-ready annual report design for ASX-listed entities, councils, statutory bodies, mining and energy clients, and industry associations. Sustainability-aligned. Same designer end-to-end. NDA-first.

Built for the AGM and the boardroom.

Bespoke financial-data design and ESG / sustainability visualisation
Brand-aligned typography that holds across 50–150-page documents
Chair / CEO message and governance section design that earns attention
NDAs signed before commencement for pre-disclosure material
Turnaround inside the FY reporting cycle
Print-spec PDFs, accessible PDFs and digital files delivered together

An annual report is the document a board, a regulator, a member or a shareholder reaches for when accountability matters.

The studio designs annual reports end-to-end: brand-aligned cover and section openers, bespoke financial-data design, ESG and sustainability visualisation, governance and chair-message layouts, and the structural pacing that makes a 100-page document read in one sitting.

Same designer from the discovery call to the press-ready file. NDA-first when the material is pre-disclosure.

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"Erica has worked for me across multiple development projects, turning complex finance and engineering into meaningful IMs and communication packages. Outstanding, delivers on time and gets the client's needs"

Simon Talbot

Executive Vice President – Commercial - Gold Hydrogen

A clear, collaborative approach.

Discovery

WEEK 1

15-minute discovery call. Erica reads any draft you have, names the report's audience and reporting deadline, and confirms what's needed. NDA signed before the call if the material is pre-disclosure. You leave with a same-day indicative price and a fixed delivery date.

Design

WEEK 1 - 4 (faster on a tight reporting cycle)

Cover and section opener concepts first, then a sample spread that locks the typographic system, financial-data design, ESG visualisation and chair-message layout. The rest of the report follows that system page by page. Two structured rounds of feedback against the chosen direction.

Delivery

FINAL WEEK

Press-ready PDF, digital PDF and accessible (tagged) PDF for compliance. Editable InDesign master, where the licence allows.Print management coordinated with the studio's Brisbane print partners if you need physical copies for the AGM, board distribution, or member mail-out.

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FAQ's

How does your design process work?

Four stages: Discovery, Development, Refinement, Implementation.

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Discovery starts with a 15-minute discovery call and a written brief sign-off, so both sides know exactly what's being made and why.

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Development produces a real first-pass concept — sample spreads or designed pages, not mood boards.

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Refinement runs two structured rounds of feedback in a single shared file. No version-control chaos.

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Implementation delivers press-ready and digital-ready files, plus ongoing tweaks within the engagement window.

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The point of contact is always Erica — same designer at the scoping call, the concept review, and the press-ready hand-off. No agency baton-pass, no project manager translating between client and creative.

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Most projects begin within the same week as the scoping call.

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How long does it typically take?

Annual reports run 2–4 weeks. Larger or multi-deliverable projects are quoted with their own timeline.

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Tighter deadlines are accommodated when capacity allows — the studio has turned around capital-raise IMs and pitch decks in under a fortnight where a deal cycle required it. Bring the deadline to the discovery call; you'll have a confirmed timeline before that 15 minutes is up.

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Do you work with clients across Australia?

Yes. The studio is Brisbane-based and works with clients in every Australian capital and across regional areas of Australia, with selected projects in New Zealand, the UK and the US.

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Recent corporate clients include Gold Hydrogen, Eastern Metals, Sojitz Blue, MHi Hub, Longreach Regional Council and Woollahra Municipal Council — every project ran end-to-end remotely, with print and production managed wherever the client is based.

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Is your design work secure and confidential?

Yes. Annual reports pass through this studio under standard NDA — confidentiality is built into how every brief is run, not a paid extra.

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Files are stored on Australian infrastructure, never reused in third-party marketing without written permission, and never fed into external AI training tools. NDAs can be signed before the scoping call if your material is market-sensitive.

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Do you help with content, or just the design?

Design is the core of the work, and that includes shaping how content reads on the page — structure, hierarchy, emphasis, white-space. The way information is arranged is half the design.

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Where copy needs to be written rather than refined, Erica brings in trusted Brisbane and Sydney copywriters who already know the studio's process and quality bar. You do not need finished copy to start the project — bring what you have to the scoping call, and the rest is mapped from there.

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How does pricing work?

Every annual report is scoped to your reporting cycle, your audience, and your content readiness.

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Pricing depends on page count (typical annual reports span 40–150 pages), data design and ESG-visualisation needs, deadline pressure, and how much content arrives ready versus needing refinement.

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The 15-minute discovery call covers all of those, and an indicative price lands in your inbox the same day.

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Do you produce accessible (WCAG / tagged) PDFs for compliance?

Yes. Final delivery includes a press-ready PDF, a digital PDF and a tagged accessible PDF for organisations that need WCAG 2.1 AA-aligned distribution.

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Government, statutory and listed-entity reports increasingly require this; the studio builds it in as standard rather than as a paid extra.

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Can you hit a tight reporting-cycle deadline?

Yes, when capacity allows. The studio has turned around 80–120 page annual reports inside a four-week window, where the AGM cycle required it.

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Bring the deadline to the discovery call — you'll have a confirmed timeline before that 15 minutes is up.

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Every brief is scoped to your request, your audience, and your deadline. Book a 15-minute scoping call, and you'll have an indicative price the same day.

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"Erica has worked for me across multiple development projects turning complex finance and engineering into meaningful IMs and communication packages. Outstanding, delivers on time and gets the clients needs."

Simon Talbot

Executive Vice President – Commercial, Gold Hydrogen

"Erica Miller Design has produced an outstanding IM document for us, that is fresh, modern and very engaging in its design, which is quite an achievement considering our business is not exactly filled with colour and excitement!
She is also very professional, has an excellent eye for design and is articulate with her communication."

Mark Pettitt

Chairman — Skygard

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Bring the brief. Leave with a price.

The 15-minute scoping call is for any corporate brief — capital raise, annual report, rebrand, capability statement, pitch deck. Pricing depends on page count, illustration and data-design needs, deadline pressure, and how much content arrives ready vs needing refinement. All of those are covered on the call. An indicative price lands in your inbox the same day.