Stifel Research Report: Energy in the Digital Age

A 68-page research report on the global energy transition, designed with Stifel’s research team in Paris.

Section opener spread with two photographs of a wind farm at sunset and the section title in gold

Stifel IRIS · Graphic Design Specialist, with Stifel’s research team in Paris

Editorial and long-format design · Data visualization · Design systems · Distributed collaboration


The challenge

Stifel’s research team in Paris supplied the copy and data. The design worked inside Stifel’s typeface and brand palette, across 57 figures and 68 pages, as Part 1 of a series.

The work

Restyled the Paris team’s figures into one system.
Numbered label, small-caps title, a rule, and the source in italics beneath each figure.

Narrowed a wide brand palette to navy and gold.

Set the type hierarchy and the grid.
Weight, size, leading and measure on Stifel’s typeface. Two columns throughout, with photographic spreads and section openers breaking the grid on purpose.

Alongside the report
Worked with advisors on interactive brochures and seasonal reports for their own sites. Built HTML emails, reports and marketing for them to promote their services, educational materials for the advisors, print collateral for Stifel and its advisors, and the brand guidelines on Stifel’s internal repository.

Cover of Energy in the Digital Age Part 1, electricity pylons at sunset
Part 1 of the series.
Spread showing a general introduction in two columns facing a section opener
The reading grid, and a section opener.
Spread with three data figures and two columns of body copy facing a section opener
Three figures, two columns, one grid.
Several report figures side by side with identical labelling and source lines
Fifty-seven figures, one treatment.
Conclusion spread with white text reversed out of a full-page gold panel
Reversed out of full-page gold.
Contact sheet of spreads from the 68-page report
Sixty-eight pages, fifty-seven figures.

RESULTS

A 68-page report published externally under the Stifel IRIS banner

57 figures in one treatment

The house style for the series that followed

Compliance review passed before publication on everything designed

The same problem in a different format: complex material, made navigable.

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