Works The annual report becomes interactive!
GS1 Italy

The annual report becomes interactive!

Client benefit

- Engage the audience
- Innovative report format
- Communicate complex data

Project objective

Offer an annual and updated overview of the GS1 Italy universe, give stakeholders a clear view of the results achieved and the activities carried out and develop an additional communication and marketing tool.

 

 

 

Project results

GS1 Italy was able to unlock communications efficiency by embracing the digital space for its annual report. The interactive and multi-annual approach enabled the client to create a product that adds value for their stakeholders.

Project background

GS1 Italy, the only Italian body authorized to issue barcodes, commissioned The Visual Agency to revive its static print report and turn it into a captivating communication product. The development of an interactive website report transformed the static product into a dynamic and interactive experience. Filters allow the readers to dive into the complex data and navigate it autonomously and according to individual interests. The promotional video is a key integrated feature to ensure audiences know how to interact with the website and visualizations and to make it accessible and user friendly for a broad audience.

«The collaboration with The Visual Agency has enabled us to make our annual report completely digital and accessible to our entire community of 35,000 user companies. The use of data visualization has helped to grow a data culture and performance measurement in the organisation. Not to mention the quality of design and user interface, which have always been very successful and powerful.»

Marco Cuppini - Research and Communication Director, GS1 Italy

Explore the project

Already in its third year, this project has increased visibility to GS1 Italy's core topics and annual performance. Structured in dedicated chapters, each section gives the reader the opportunity to investigate and learn more about the client’s core KPIs. The background pattern is dynamically generated: each time the site is accessed, the shapes change, creating a unique user experience.

The structure


The microsite is organised in 5 chapters:

  • Home
  • Numbers
  • Activities 2019
  • About us
  • How we work

An opening video explaining the client’s key activities in 2019 is embedded into the homepage of the microsite.

KPIs and Business Strategy visualized


Moving away from a text centric and word heavy approach, the core of the microsite is an interactive visualization of the client’s 2019 core activities and projects. This visualization gives the user the opportunity to gain quick insights based on individual interests. All activities are clickable and can be accessed for further, more detailed information.  The user can decide to explore the content following the two different approaches below.

By topic


All projects and activities have been grouped into 6 specific themes that are represented with different geometrical shapes such as circles, triangles and squares. They are positioned on a concentric radar visualization that is split into 6 topical areas. Furthermore, all activities and projects are color coded depending on the strategic goal to which they contribute.

By strategic goal


All projects and activities are sorted in boxes according to the strategic goals they belong to. With a simple mouse over the user can immediately see which and how many activities the client has undertaken and to which strategic goal they belong.

Navigation and multimedia content


Besides the core visualization, the user can explore each strategic goal and each activity in a separate session. All goals are colour coded and each activity explained in dedicated pages. These pages are supported by interviews, photos and videos to interrupt text heavy pages and make them more engaging to the audience.

GS1 goals color coded pages

The annual report as a vehicle for communication 


Through the sections “About us” and “How we work” the client had the opportunity to create richer content and to add not only performance-related but also brand-related content. These sections are interlinked with the main GS1 Italy website and are therefore boosting the company’s SEO and online presence.

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