The Hottest Annual Report I've Ever Seen. 100°Celsius, To Be Exact.

Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić has designed an annual report for food company Podravka that has to be baked in an oven before it can be read.Well Done, the report, features blank pages printed with thermo-reactive ink that, after being wrapped in foil and cooked for 25 minutes, reveal text and images.Here are details from Bruketa & Zinić:Well Done, the annual report for food company you have to bake before use. Empty pages become filled with content after being baked at 100°C for 25 minutes.

created by Bruketa & Zinić is the new annual report for Podravka, the biggest food company in South-East Europe. It consists of two parts:

• a big book containing numbers and a report of an independent auditor

• a small booklet that is inserted inside the big one that contains the very heart of Podravka as a brand: great Podravka’s recipes.

To be able to cook like Podravka you need to be a precise cook. That is why the small Podravka booklet is printed in invisible, thermo-reactive ink. To be able to reveal Podravka’s secrets you need to cover the small booklet in aluminium foil and bake it at 100 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes.If you are not precise, the booklet will burn, just as any overcooked meal. If you have successfully baked your sample of the annual report, the empty pages will become filled with text, and the illustrations with empty plates filled with food.

The annual report is printed on paper Conqueror Laid Brilliant White 120 g/m2, Munken Polar 130 g/m2 and Soporset 90 g/m2 and written with typography Thema by Nikola Djurek and Lexicon by Bram De Does.The creative team of the project consists of Creative Directors Davor Bruketa & Nikola Zinić; Art directors Davor Bruketa, Nikola Zinić, Imelda Ramovi, Mirel Hadžijusufović; Copywriters Davor Bruketa, Nikola Zinić, Lana Cavar, Teo Tarabarić, Project manager Mirna Grzelj; Prepress: Danko Đurašin and editor Drenislav Zekić.This is the seventh annual report for Podravka designed by Bruketa & Zinić OM. Those seven books won numerous awards worldwide such as London International Awards (Gold), Art Directors Club New York (Silver), Red Dot (Best of the Best), Cresta (Winner of Category), I.D. Annual Design Review (Best of Category), Type Directors Club (Typographic Excellence), Graphis (Gold) , Creativity (Gold) , Good Design (Graphics Award), HOW International Design Awards (Best of Show), Moscow International Advertising Festival (Gold), International Forum Communication Design (Design Award) and ARC Awards (Gold).

Bruketa & Zinić OM is a 60-people independent agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. It was established 10 years ago. The agency has been awarded for their projects by many prestigious contests and their work has been presented in many publications, books and exhibitions worldwide. source: Dezeen

Addendum:The Red Dot Design Award for Podravka’s Annual Report for 2006. The Red Dot Design Award is a competition that takes place every year in Essen, Germany. It is organized by the Design Zentrum Nordheim Westfalen, the world leading design institution. It is considered to be one of the most important competition of design in the world.In the last five years, the Advertising Agency Bruketa&ŽinićOM, won 7 Red Dot Design Awards, mainly for the Podravka design projects. During his visit to Zagreb, 2 years ago, Vito Oražen, managing director of the Design centre Nordhein Westfalen, said for one Croatian newspapers: «Podravka, definitely, has the most recognizable design among Croatian companies. Podravka is known on almost all world markets. Podravka has won the RED DOT Award, which proves its quality in design more than anything.The creative team of the Advertising Agency Bruketa & Žinić OM which prepared this annual report: creative directors, Davor Bruketa & Nikola Žinić, Art Directors, Imelda Ramović and Mirel Hadžijusufović, copywriters, Davor Bruketa, Nikola Žinić, Imelda Ramović and Mirel Hadžijusufović, the photographers Marin Topić and Domagoj Kunić, the project Manager Drenislav Žekić and the production of Boris Matešić from Osijek firm I. B. L.

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