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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
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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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