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Maintaining narrative control across your communications ecosystem

Machine-readable reporting in 2026: How to stay visible, trusted and accurately understood

Sustainability ambition is rising. Is your ESG data ready?

Moving beyond document-led reporting

Why cyber resilience is becoming a board-level trust issue for investors

IFRS 18 explained: what the new standard means for your strategic report and investor narrative

Why digital summary reports are becoming a strategic necessity in an AI‑led investor landscape

10 tips to keep your communications creative in 2026

Practical insights for strengthening governance reporting in large private companies

Reporting on artificial intelligence in annual reports: emerging practices and examples

Building a stronger reporting ecosystem

How artificial intelligence (AI) can support company secretaries: from governance to efficiency

Demystifying AI: What it really means for your work life

How to communicate during a cyber incident

Pride month reflections

Design Portfolio joins the Mental Health Charter – supporting wellbeing at work

Design Portfolio named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025

Celebrating our 2023 award wins, including “Small agency of the year”

From dissertation to direction – collaborating with Aston University

The Sustainability Report is dead

The Digital Renaissance: A huge opportunity awaits in digital first reporting

What does the next generation expect from annual reports?

The future of sustainability governance and assurance

The role of data and audience intelligence in corporate reporting

Shorter, smarter annual reports: rethinking structure and content

Read our whitepaper: Crafting your investment case - an updated guide to investment case reporting across FTSE 350 & AIM 50

Read our whitepaper: Building the investment case

Weaving the golden thread: how to build consistent and impactful corporate communications

Meet our Workiva lead, Sannie Liebenberg

2024 UK Corporate Governance Code Updates: Key Changes and Reporting Tips for Businesses

How the FCA’s anti-greenwashing rule will impact your corporate website

Two exciting strategic announcements for our Group

Design by Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Charting the Future of Reporting: Our Collaboration with Imperial College London

Delivering long-term value: A strategic capital allocation framework

How to improve emerging risk reporting: Learnings from 2023 Annual Reports

The AI revolution: Discover how companies are highlighting AI in their annual reports

Navigating the changing landscape of culture reporting: What you should be doing next

Finding your angle: Portrait or landscape reporting, which one works best?

What should large private companies do to improve corporate communications?

TCFD made simple.

Is gender parity achievable? Insights from the latest FTSE Women Leaders Review

The importance of unique and innovative governance reporting

What to expect from audit reporting in 2024

What are the risks and benefits of AI in corporate reporting?

Streamlining annual reports: a guide to cutting page counts

Navigating the complexities of corporate reporting: insights from the sell-side

Seven ways to future proof your digital corporate communications

ESG rating agencies – What does the future hold?

Regulation changes for 2023 and onwards

Restoring confidence in corporate and audit reporting: The BEIS’s upcoming reforms and how they’ll change the reporting landscape

Navigating ESG reporting: The ISSB’s proposed reporting standards and what they mean for companies

Event highlights: ESEF made simple

Read our whitepaper: Navigating TCFD

Stop reporting on sustainability. Start embracing sustainability by design

It's time to talk about climate change. Are you ready?

What does the GRI and SASB collaboration mean for you?

Standardised sustainability reporting... at last!

It’s the decade of delivery! What ESG action should you take?

Powerful communication goes hand in hand with ESG excellence

Read our whitepaper: Are you on track to become superstainable?

Read our whitepaper: Leading the way in climate change reporting

The future of corporate communications is here; are you ready? Five key takeaways from the FRC's new discussion paper

2021 ESG trends which could impact your access to capital

What’s next for sustainability? A training pack for 2023 sustainability trends

Diversity must add up for successful governance: what the FCA’s new rules mean for companies

What you should know about The Investment Association’s shareholder priorities for 2023

The evolution of stakeholder engagement reporting and what you could be doing better

Read our whitepaper: Section 172 statement trends – small and mid-cap reporting

Reflections on Speaking at Leeds University Business School for International Women’s Day: Embracing Equity in Business

Rethinking reporting on modern slavery. Are you doing enough?

Design Portfolio’s 6 corporate communication trends to consider

Design Portfolio’s 8 ESG trends that will define 2022

Introducing our latest research report: Uncovering Nature and Biodiversity

What is new for the TCFD and what does good look like? Reflections and examples

Join us for an autumn of events with Design Portfolio

Breaking down the FRC’s agenda for ESG reporting

Lifting the green fog: six tips to avoid corporate greenwashing

High stakes environment: Shifting requirements around climate and nature-related risk

Navigating the noise: preparing your ESG strategy for 2021

What COVID-19 can do to corporate communications: Takeaways from the FRC's annual review for your strategic report

Celebrating 25 years of AIM

3 simple things companies should do to make more time for nature this 2020 World Environment Day

New reality or business as usual?

What comms professionals can take from the UK's crisis messaging

How effective digital communications can help you navigate the COVID-19 crisis

Read our factsheet: Corporate reporting and communication during the COVID-19 crisis

Navigating new communication challenges: our digital whitepaper

Read our whitepaper: Our guide to ESG reporting

Why your next strategic report could be the most important ever! What you should know

COVID-19 and what it means for your ESG communications

Communicating in the COVID-19 world. What can we learn?

What the Bezos Earth Fund tells us about stakeholder influence

Navigating the IPO process

Protecting your corporate assets from DDoS attacks – a lesson from the Labour Party

Cyber security: is your investor website a liability?

What does your audience really know?

Our digital design process

The not-so-secret path to longevity of business success

Designing your content

Why proofreading matters more than ever

Culture: a matter of principles

ICSA Conference – a world of new challenges for boards

Taking the hassle out of ESEF

Inclusivity and happiness go hand in hand

Inclusivity by design

Forgive me for sounding like a broken record

Risk reporting and board skills, are you connecting the dots?

The authentic voice and why it matters

Celebrating at the PLC Awards!

International Women’s Day

A year in the making – how to best report on gender pay gap

FRC strengthens Stewardship Code

The Wates principles – how can large private businesses report on corporate governance?

Yorkshire Business Awards

Annual Report of the Year – Small Cap and AIM: ICSA Awards Sponsor

IPOs – utilising your digital channels

FRC highlights where reporting by smaller companies needs to improve

Design Portfolio at the UK tech awards 2018

An insight into the 2018 Grant Thornton Corporate Governance Review

“And the winner is…” Design Portfolio at the AIM Awards 2018

Let’s talk diversity

QCA Partnership – delivering a new Governance Package

Proud sponsors at the Private Business Awards

Featured in Print Week: cool heads keep sector calm under pressure

IPOs: making the right first impression

Walking a tightrope – reporting on systematic risks

Revised Guidance on the Strategic Report from the FRC

The new Code is here. What’s changed?

Blockchain: What does it mean for your reporting?

New code for private companies

It’s time to talk about salary

Invitation: May MiFID II Event

A refreshed QCA Governance Code. So, what’s changed?

The letter that everyone listened to

Revised AIM Rules for listed companies

Increasing interest in social investment

Crisis management – what can save you?

Gender pay gap: eight ways to improve your reporting

How can corporates demonstrate the elimination of modern slavery?

From AIM to Main Market: how to step up your communications

The communications opportunity under MiFID II

‘Size Doesn’t matter but reporting does’ – a Design Portfolio workshop with the QCA

Communication in a post-truth world

Cyber risk: a wake-up call.

Responsible business behaviour is shaping companies’ reputations

DP partners with QCA for reporting advice workshop

Supply chains, climate change and data: circular economy hits the mainstream

What we learned: Our ESG events

Webinar: What makes an effective Section 172 statement?

Meet DP’s new starters of 2022!

A day in the life of DP’s newest design intern!

Meet our new joiners

Kindness matters most this Mental Health Awareness Week

The Big Charity Wrap Up

Eleganza Extravaganza! Company update and Christmas party

Homeless at Christmas – supporting Manchester’s community

Cracking fun at the Chairman’s Christmas Lunch

Sand’s Swimming and Smiles for Children in Need

Charity Chapters: Operation Christmas Child is a go!

Charity Chapters: Abbie’s 10k Race for Life

Remembrance Day 2018: marking 100 years since the end of WW1

Celebrating Diwali

Willkommen Oktoberfest 2018

A Pretty Muddy Day!

Bank holiday boating

Eeh bah gum, it’s Yorkshire Day!

It’s coming home! – World Cup 2018

Fairground fun at the Summer Fête 2018

The Apprentice! Our first apprenticeship scheme

Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge

DP Social

North America, TCFD, Reporting and Roadmaps – What you need to know

Content and Strategy team welcomes new sustainability hire

ESG – has it become lost in all the noise?

Shaping the future of sustainable investment

The role of governance in developing stakeholder capitalism

The new age of sustainability reporting

It’s beginning to look a lot like… a supersustainable Christmas!

“Making Global Goals Local Business” event is putting sustainability on the map

Transforming the finance sector for a greener future

In 2019, every day is World Environment Day

ESG: short-term pain for long-term value?

Do investors care about sustainability?

Confused about sustainability reporting? Let’s take a step back and look at the bigger picture

What is TSI and how can it impact your TSR?

Elevating charity reporting: insights from our work with Yorkshire Cancer Research

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