Graphics & Desktop Publishers
Make Your Proposals Shine: Graphics & Desktop Publishing
Don't let lackluster visuals hold your proposals back. Our team of skilled Graphic Artists and Desktop Publishers helps you create compelling and professional documents that capture attention and win contracts.
The Shipley Advantage:
- Engaging Visual Storytelling: Our Graphic Artists transform complex data into clear, impactful visuals that enhance understanding and memorability.
- Cohesive & Easy-to-Navigate Layouts: Our Desktop Publishers weave text, data, and graphics into aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly documents.
- Brand Consistency: We ensure your proposal reflects your brand identity through consistent visual elements and style adherence.
- Streamlined Workflow & Attention to Detail: We maintain meticulous version control and adhere to style guides for a polished final product.
- Accessibility Focus: We ensure your proposals are accessible to a wider audience by incorporating inclusive design practices.
Service Description
What You Get:
A skilled Graphic Artist plays a crucial role in crafting visually compelling proposals. Here's what you should look for:
- Engaging Visual Communication:
- Clarity & Engagement Champions: Develop impactful visuals that effectively communicate even complex information, enhancing reader comprehension and proposal memorability.
- Tailored Visual Storytelling: Collaborate closely with content contributors to design graphics that perfectly align with specific proposal content and objectives.
- Data Visualization Experts: Transform complex data sets into clear and informative charts and graphs, making key insights readily apparent to decision-makers.
- Professional & Consistent Presentation:
- Visual Consistency Masters: Ensure consistent visual style throughout the proposal for a professional and polished look that reflects your brand identity.
- Software Expertise: Possess strong expertise in industry-standard graphic design software, allowing them to create high-quality and visually appealing graphics.
- Iconography & Accessibility: Develop custom icons and illustrations to enhance proposal aesthetics and clarity, while adhering to accessibility standards for inclusivity.
- Streamlined Workflow & Attention to Detail:
- Version Control Champions: Maintain meticulous version control of graphic elements within the proposal, ensuring consistency across revisions.
- Style Guide Adherence: Create visuals that strictly comply with your brand guidelines and established proposal style guide.
A skilled Desktop Publisher plays a crucial role in crafting visually appealing and user-friendly proposals. Here's what you should look for:
- Formatting & Readability:
- Cohesive Formatting Master: Seamlessly formats proposal text, data (tables, charts), and visuals using a consistent style that ensures a professional and easy-to-read document.
- Style Sheet Champion: Ensures consistent formatting throughout the proposal by adhering to pre-defined styles and templates, creating a visually cohesive and well-organized document.
- Readability Architect: Enhances proposal readability with clear and consistent text formatting (font, size, spacing), proper hierarchy of information, and effective use of white space.
- Visual Appeal & Navigation:
- Page Layout Pro: Designs visually appealing and user-friendly page layouts that optimize proposal navigation, guiding readers through the information effectively.
- Integration Specialist: Seamlessly integrates visuals (charts, graphs, images) within the proposal layout to maintain a cohesive flow of information and enhance reader understanding.
- Table of Contents & Indexing Expert: Develops a clear and comprehensive table of contents and index for easy reference, allowing readers to quickly locate specific information within the proposal.
- Efficiency & Accuracy:
- Automation Advocate: Utilizes desktop publishing software features to automate repetitive tasks such as formatting and numbering, streamlining proposal creation and saving valuable time.
- Cross-Referencing Champion: Ensures accurate cross-referencing of information throughout the proposal, maintaining consistency and clarity.
- Presentation Perfectionist: Maintains consistent page numbering and headers throughout the proposal, delivering a professional presentation.
- Accessibility Focus: Formats proposals with accessibility features in mind, ensuring a wider audience can easily access and understand the information presented.
Engage a Consultant
Whether you need help developing win strategies, win themes, or organizing your response for a compelling, customer-focused response, Shipley is ready to help. We can be onsite with your team or provide virtual support. End-to-end proposal management provides clients with the assurance that a proposal will be the best sales document possible—while being compliant and responsive. Balancing the tactical aspects of a proposal while providing team leadership are qualities all Shipley Proposal Managers bring to a project.
What Our Clients Say
Here is what our clients have to say about their experiences and success stories working with Shipley consultants.
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"The guidance you provided on our capture plan helped us re-evaluate and re-direct our win strategy on this must-win competitive bid. Thank you for helping us better understand our competitive position on this critical capture effort. We know we've enhanced our win based on your input."
SVP Strategic Capture Management, Global Defense Contractor
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"Shipley's technical expertise, extensive knowledge and interpersonal skills enabled us to validate our capture strategy to the Senior Leadership. Your professionalism and can-do attitude truly reflected the best business practices that Shipley brings to the table."
Director, Multi National Aerospace and Defense Contractor
"Your proposal leadership on this complex proposal was invaluable. You were able to harness our resources and bring together a compelling story for our customer while maintaining calm - even in a very chaotic environment with us and our teaming partners."
Director of Program Development, Healthcare IT Firm
"As a small business, we were looking for a tool that would give us an edge over our competition. The Shipley Proposal Guide has given us that competitive advantage. The Guide's organization is intuitive, information relevant, and has quickly become the most powerful tool in our proposal development arsenal."
Director of Business Development
Why Shipley?
The most qualified and diverse cadre of capture and proposal resources in the industry
Industry-proven tools, techniques, and processes for getting it done right; on time and on budget
Task order, quick-turn response support to minimize overhead and respond quickly
A flexible engagement management approach with practitioners leading project oversight
A partner that supports clients with a winning discipline, globally
A national recruiting system to attract and retain capture and proposal talent to meet specific needs