STORY

FTSE Russell is a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) that produces, maintains, licenses, and markets stock market indices. When the brand and division FTSE Russell was introduced, it needed to integrate all its branded documents, stationery, and templates from the indexing services of the FTSE index series and Russell index series into the new brand.

I worked as a freelance designer with an agency to support their efforts to create new branded printed and digital communications and stationery templates to solve new document needs and replace old document templates. I collaborated with other designers to produce branded design concepts and finalized digital and press-ready assets for seven global offices. For templates requiring localization, we create redlines for a third agency specializing in localization. Below is a sample collection of some of the projects.

Contributions

Graphic design collaboration
Microsoft and Adobe template creation
PowerPoint presentations
Print production
Print sourcing and estimates
Print vendor liaison and press checks

Smart beta brochure pages being displayed on a tablet and as a opened up printed brochure.

Magazine Advertisement

A rendering of a full-page advertisement placed in the EQ Derivatives Magazine and the CBOE RMC Europe Magazine.

Digital and Printed Guide to Products and Services

This product and services guide was produced for an eBook and offset printing. This document was produced in Adobe InDesign with assistance from Illustrator and Photoshop. Roles included collaboration in design/layout, photo retouching, and digital and print production.

A collection of CMYK color page spreads from the 66-page brochure. These were also exported as single page spreads with an RGB color profile for an eBook.

business document template creation and redlines

Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word templates

We built new business forms and document templates in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Adobe InDesign in the style of the new brand. The templates were created keeping in mind localized stationery sizes, writing styles, and language standards. Once finalized, redlines were produced for each master template and then handed off to a template company that specialized in localization and mass production for multiple international offices.

Covers samples of a research report crafted as an Adobe InDesign template and as a Microsoft Word template.

A collection of pages from the A4 document template created in InDesign. The Adobe template included notes for designers and screenshots of the different color swatches, character styles, paragraph styles, and chart styles built into the template. The same template was also designed in a US letter size and then crafted into a Microsoft Word template. The Word versions of the templates included custom themes, tables, graphs, text boxes, and charts that could integrate with the branded Microsoft Excel reports.

Microsoft Word Template Redlines

These are samples of some of the redlines of the Microsoft Word template and Microsoft table and chart components used for template conversions.

Microsoft PowerPoint Template

The template included consistent margins, guidelines, branded color themes, text styles, chart styles, placeholder fields, and brand images.

The collection of Microsoft PowerPoint presentation template pages including cover pages, a legal page, different styles of lists, different text layout options, data charts and tables templates, and closing slides.

Microsoft PowerPoint Redlines

These are samples of some of the redlines of the PowerPoint template used for template conversions.

Stationery Sets for International Offices

We prepared stationery design comps and press files for all the US and international offices including Edinburgh, Hong Kong, London, New York, Seattle, and Sydney.