Contract and Corporate Publishing

Contract and Corporate Publishing
As part of the Sandstone Communication Network, The Visual Consultancy Corporation offers a full range of journalistic and design skills and facilities for all parts of the publishing process - from editorial and copywriting, right through to finished product, printing and distribution. We can handle anything from a small leaflet through to a full-color magazine. Whatever your publication we have the skills to design a good looking product ... and make sure you get your message across with professionally written and edited copy. We have specialist knowledge in the medicine, healthcare and IT areas, making us an ideal choice for any publication in these fields.

An Efficient Workplan
When The Visual Consultancy Corporation promises custom publishing, we do more than deliver a quality product. We also design an efficient work plan tailored to your exact requirements. Our contract publishing services blend art and science into singular expressions of quality. Our services include writing, editing, graphic design, production, printing, distribution, internet publishing, and complete project management. Each of these services is available separately or combined into complete custom publishing packages.

Writing
Our team of experienced writers and editors can provide the content you want. We can produce copy from raw material of any type, from rough drafts and technical specs to interviews and direct interaction with products. If you copy needs updating, or even a total rewrite, we can handle that for you. If you do not have copy on hand, we can create it: we can assign, report, write and edit any content, which is then sent to you for approval. In other words, leave the writing side to us. You simply determine what content is to be covered, and you receive high-quality copy created specifically for you. Our writing applications include pharmaceutical, medical, scientific, technical, business, consumer, and advertising and marketing communication.

Graphic Design

Bold images. High impact photography. Sophisticated illustrations. Simple yet dynamic typography. Good design is critical to successful communication. Whether a glossy corporate presentation or a series of medical bulletins, whether a sales and marketing promotion or a detailed user manual, every printed project has a design component. When you turn to The Visual Consultancy Corporation for your publication design needs, you do not get "canned" concepts but carefully and fully developed looks, tailored to your corporate and product image and message. Our design capabilities span the full range from four-color glossy slicks to 16-page technical bulletins and 60-page product monographs to 84-page magazines or 300-page directories.

Printing
Over the years we have found the best, most cost-effective printers for a variety of printing projects, and we know all the ins and outs of working with them. We can get your job printed to the highest quality standards, cost-effectively, regardless of project type or size.

Internet Publishing
The Internet is fast becoming a standard communication medium for both consumers and industry. Used primarily by most businesses as advertising and marketing communication tool, the Internet is also finding application as a means of cost-effective distribution of print materials, documentation, and technical support.

The Internet also offers a variety of business tools, from inventory management to project progress control. Image2day, the Internet specialist division of The Visual Consultancy Corporation, offers strategic partnership with Internet publishing specialists, giving you a complete Internet development, publication, maintenance, and business services environment in one integrated package.

Our integrated approach includes complete, professional and cost-effective entry-level Internet site planning, design, implementation and hosting and a number of services to facilitate interactive marketing and advertising to ensure products and services reach new markets and expand beyond conventional arenas.

With a knowledgeable and creative team, the infrastructure to make your site available worldwide and unprecedented reporting systems to enable you to monitor your site's performance, The Image2day team can provide you with the ultimate springboard for Internet success.

Editing
Editing spans the range from fixing spelling, punctuation, and grammar to complete line-by-line review for structure, sense, logic, consistency, and clarity. All editing is geared toward publication and includes attention to formatting, style, and overall presentation.

Artwork
Looking through the pages of any publication created by The Visual Consultancy Corporation any you see a vivid world of art, illustrations, photography and design. If you do not have suitable illustrations for your publication, we can provide new custom photography and illustrations, and develop charts or graphs to give your message the impact you want. When it come to getting visual, The Visual Consultancy Corporation is picture perfect.

Production
Production encompasses the range of tasks necessary to prepare material for printing. Services include graphics production (creation of illustrations, custom photography, and scanning and electronic image manipulation) and overall publication production (typesetting, page layout, page proofs, all pre-press functions, delivery of materials to the printer, and printer management).

Distribution
We provide full circulation management expertise in-house. In addition to the mechanical aspects of managing mailing lists and working with postal regulations and printers' mail rooms, we can work with customers to develop new lists, manage paid lists, and handle invoicing, collections, and any other aspect of circulation management.

Project Management
We can take any publishing project and manage it from start to finish, whether a one-time event or an ongoing activity. Customers are given whatever degree of review and approval are necessary for the project. We handle all administration functions and can customize our billing systems to meet your company's accounting requirements.

Perfecting the Process
With your plate already overloaded, one glance at an average publication work plan can develop heartburn quicker than you can say "approval process". That is no surprise: Putting together a magazine, newsletter or other print and online communication means orchestrating writers, editors, art directors, designers, illustrators, etc.

But there is hope. The Visual Consultancy Corporation has seen everything - from the confused editorial planning session that sabotages execution to the last correction phase that blew-our-deadline-crisis. That's why we offer a straightforward, streamlined work plan that can virtually lock in your delivery date. It's quick, easy and designed to eliminate potential error. But we also know that one size doesn't necessarily fit all. So you can choose any part of the publication process as a "menu option'. For example, some of our clients turn to us only for editorial or design services. Some are looking for a little production help. Some seek consulting services. And for those who are interested in offsetting cost through advertising, or passing off distribution logistics, we're also experts in seamlessly integrating those tasks into the process as well.