Presentation design
Presentations are the deepest part of the Vanilla Rain portfolio: investor decks, sponsorship proposals, credentials decks and internal presentations for automotive, telecoms, energy and sports broadcasting clients. Most presentation work is run remotely from Newbury, West Berkshire, so where you are makes no difference to how a deck is briefed, built or handed over.
A good deck does two jobs. It has to carry the argument when you present it, and it has to make sense when it is forwarded to someone who was not in the room. Alistair Graham works through the content with you first, cuts what the audience does not need, then designs in editable PowerPoint.
The work
Decks the studio builds
Investor and fundraising decks
The problem, the market, the model and the ask, set out in an order an investor can follow and challenge. Charts are redrawn from your figures so they read clearly on screen and in a forwarded PDF.
Sponsorship proposals
Proposals that show a brand what it gets: audience, rights, activation and cost. Decks of this kind have been built for Fox Sports’ WAFU Cup proposal, MTN’s African football platform and SpeedWeek Africa.
Credentials and sales decks
A company presentation covering who you are, what you do and why a buyer should shortlist you, kept as a master your sales team adapts per prospect. S-Factor Sponsorship’s credentials deck and the proposal Flash used to pitch to Investec both fall here.
Board and internal presentations
Strategy updates, quarterly reviews and technical reports for an internal audience. Long material is reduced to what a room can absorb, with supporting detail kept in an appendix or a handout.
Licence applications and video
Formal submissions where the presentation is part of the case. Goldrush Bingo’s bid for a gambling licence needed three formats from the studio: a printed application book, a presentation for screen and a video version.
Templates your team can reuse
A PowerPoint template with proper slide masters, layouts, theme colours and chart styles, so staff produce on-brand slides without fighting the formatting. Placeholders are set so text and images land in the right place.
Relevant work
Presentation projects
Auto Johnny
An investor presentation for Auto Johnny, an automotive technology start-up raising funds, supplied as editable PowerPoint and PDF.
Toyota South Africa (CFAO)
Toyota South Africa’s annual group activity presentation, pulling many divisions’ submissions into one coherent deck.
Vivo Energy
Vivo Energy’s lengthy internal IT report, reworked as a presentation that people in the room could follow.
Fox Sports
A sponsorship proposal for Fox Sports covering the WAFU Cup, delivered in PowerPoint and PDF.
Presentation design
Selected work
A selection of recent projects. The full portfolio has more.
Where the work happens
Newbury, West Berkshire and further afield
Presentation work is briefed and reviewed on screen, which is why it is sold across the UK rather than only around Newbury. Clients in Reading, Oxford or Swindon who would rather sit down and work through a difficult storyline can ask for a working session at their offices. Everyone else shares content by email and reviews drafts on a video call, slide by slide.
Questions
Common questions
Will we be able to edit the deck ourselves?
Yes. Decks are built in PowerPoint on slide masters and layouts, with native charts that stay editable rather than pasted in as pictures. Your team can update figures, swap slides and add sections, and a PDF version is supplied for sending.
Our content is a long Word document and some spreadsheets. Is that enough to start?
It is a normal starting point. Send everything, including material you suspect is too detailed. Alistair will propose a structure, flag what belongs in an appendix, and agree the storyline with you before any slides are designed.
Can you work inside our existing brand template?
Yes. If the template is sound, the deck is built in it. If it causes problems, such as broken masters or fonts that do not travel between computers, it can be rebuilt properly, either within this project or quoted on its own.
How is a presentation priced?
The price is fixed in advance against a written scope, which reflects the approximate slide count, how much the content needs restructuring, whether charts and diagrams are drawn from raw data, and whether a reusable template is included.
Can the presentation be turned into a video?
Yes, where it suits the purpose. A video version with timed slides and on-screen text is useful when a deck has to be sent rather than presented, or played on a stand or at an event without someone talking it through.
Services
Related to presentation design
Annual report design
Annual reports designed for shareholders, boards and regulators alike, with clear infographics, carefully typeset financials and print-ready files.
Brand identity design
A complete identity system: logo, typefaces, colour, photography style and layout rules, with guidelines that keep every future piece unmistakably yours.
Graphic design
Brochures, reports, exhibition stands, social templates and everyday marketing material, designed on brand and supplied with editable files you can reuse.
Logo design
Logos designed to work everywhere, from a favicon to a building sign, supplied as a full set of versions and file formats with clear rules for using them.
Catalogue design
Product catalogues structured so buyers find the right item, understand it and know what to order, with consistent layouts across hundreds of product lines.
Print design
Brochures, flyers, posters and printed collateral designed and prepared for the press, with colour, folds and finishes checked so the print run matches the proof.
Send the draft deck
Share whatever exists, from an old deck to a page of notes, and say who the audience is and what you need them to decide. The scope and price are worked out from that. Or call Alistair on 07585 263824.
Design studio in Newbury, West Berkshire. Brand, design, visual production and digital marketing, handled by one studio from the first brief to the finished work.
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Contact
- ag@vanillarain.co.uk
- 07585 263824
- Newbury, West Berkshire
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