Associació Catalana d’Universitats Públiques

The Associació Catalana d’Universitats Públiques is one of the clients that year after year entrusts us with the integral graphic production of their annual and biannual reports. Lately has been published, “El Valor Social de les Universitats Públiques Catalanes, una aproximació quantitativa i qualitativa” abd “Indicadors de Recerca i Innovació de les Universitats Públiques Catalanes. Informe 2020“.

From a style book designed by the agency Minimilks, we have worked the adaptations of graphs and tables, a huge work of exporting data from Excel to Illustrator, and editing infographics to predefined styles with the client. Exporting economic data, diagrams and graphs made by researchers and scholars in design-friendly format has been a methodical and laborious work.

In terms of printing, the characteristics of the two documents were the same: 350 g. FSC Matte Coated FSC on the cover with matte anti-scratch on one side and, on the inside, 120 g. FSC offset paper printed on two sides. The only differences between the two books were the number of pages and the language translation. The “Resum Executiu: El valor social de les universitats públiques catalanes. Una Aproximació quantitativa i qualitativa” has 156 pages while the “Informe 2020. Indicadors de recerca i innovació de les universitats Públiques Catalanes” is composed of 84 inside pages plus the covers. In addition, in the case of the 2020 Report, two books were designed: a first one only in Catalan and the second one in three languages (Catalan, Spanish and English).

This project has allowed us to give a friendly and understandable form to complex contents of great statistical value, making its dissemination comprehensible to the media and other institutions and companies in the country.

Creating a coordination team with the ACUP, analyzing, exporting, and layout the data, and finally, printing and preparing the reports also in the online format, makes us feel satisfied with a successful and global project.