“Every time we send the annual reports Lovehate creates for us out to our funding bodies, they always say ‘Wow!’.”
Topology are an exquisitely talented, boundary-pushing chamber quintet committed to modern musical composition. We’ve designed their album artwork for over a decade for multiple albums and worked with them on many other projects from signage to tote bags, programmes to posters and even their attention-getting, laser-cut business cards.
Recently, Topology expanded into offering musical education and community arts programmes. With this expansion came a greater need to apply for funding along with increased reporting requirements. With our long-standing, close working relationship with Topology, they naturally turned to us to help them with their annual reports.
We recognised that even a document like an annual report that can be considered dull or dry doesn’t have to be. Our strategy was to use the design and content for these reports as opportunities for this incredibly distinctive and creative brand to:
Our challenge is to always go beyond the corporate requirements and structure of an annual report to create a document that is compelling and exciting to read and that embodies the brave, creative spirit that’s at the heart of the Topology brand.
In this way, each report remains recognisably “Topology” and looking like they belong together as a set, even though we mix up the design expression, colour, photography and more each year.
each edition, we help Topology summarise what they’ve been up to that year, documenting their achievements, programs, performances and more,
Lovehate Design+Brand always gives us something we can be proud of to send around. Every time we show our annual reports to people they comment on how good they look.
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