Request for Proposals – Design Providers for…

Challenge Abstract

The Planetary Society is requesting proposals from particular person contractors / organizations to offer design companies to provide our quarterly house journal.

With a world group of greater than 2 million house lovers, The Planetary Society is the world’s largest and most influential house advocacy group. Based in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman and at present led by CEO Invoice Nye, we empower the general public to take a significant position in advancing house exploration by means of advocacy, schooling outreach, scientific innovation, and international collaboration. Along with our members and supporters, we’re on a mission to discover worlds, discover life off Earth, and defend our planet from harmful asteroids.

The chosen designer or crew will develop a brand new template for our membership journal and lead ongoing format, illustration, and design for the journal every quarter on an annual contract foundation.

The Planetary Report is printed quarterly, and every subject consists of 24 pages. Discover previous problems with the journal on our web site at planetary.org/planetary-report.

Challenge Scope

1. Design a brand new template:

   • Develop a contemporary, visually interesting, and cohesive template for our journal together with infographic and illustration artwork path samples.

   • Make sure the template is versatile to accommodate varied content material sorts (long-form articles, collections of shorter content material, picture options, and so on).

   • Incorporate suggestions and revisions as wanted earlier than closing approval of the template.

2. Lead ongoing format and design for our quarterly journal:

   • Use the authorised template to design, illustrate, and format 4 consecutive problems with the journal, beginning with the March 2025 subject (publishing March 10, 2025).

   • Work carefully with our editorial crew to make sure content material is precisely and attractively offered.

   • Incorporate suggestions and revisions as wanted earlier than closing approval of every subject.

Deliverables

1. Template design:

   • Totally designed and editable template information in Adobe InDesign (or related software program).

   • Fashion guides for typography, shade schemes, and different design components.

   • Illustration and infographic pattern.

2. Problem layouts:

   • Full format information for 4 points in Adobe InDesign (or related software program)

   • Print-ready PDF information for every subject.

   • Supply information and any customized graphics or property created for the journal.

   • Ship print-ready information to our printer.

{Qualifications}

• Confirmed historical past of design, illustration, artwork path, and typography expertise

• Curiosity in house exploration is favorable

• This RFP is open to certified entities each inside the US and internationally

Challenge Timeline

For subsequent quarterly points, the format course of will take roughly eight weeks from begin to end.

Submission directions

Please ship your CV, cowl letter and print portfolio to [email protected] no later than Friday, July nineteenth, 2024.