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Design & Creative

Design & Creative Services

Brand-consistent · Print-ready · Packaging fluent

DPL's in-house design team builds creative that's made to print — brochures and mailers, packaging and kit inserts, direct-mail campaigns and trade-show graphics. Because our designers sit one room over from our press operators, what looks beautiful on screen lands cleanly on substrate the first time.

Creative Built for Print & Packaging

Print is unforgiving — bleeds, trims, knockouts, and substrate quirks decide whether a design actually works. Our team designs with those constraints baked in, so files go to press clean and proofs match expectations.

Brand-Consistent Across Every Touchpoint

We design within your established brand system and extend it cleanly into formats it may never have lived in before — packaging, dimensional mail, large-format signage, conference materials.

  • Brand-standard typography and color reproduction
  • Logo lockups optimized for production sizes
  • Iconography and grids that scale across formats
  • Tone-of-voice consistency in copy and headlines

Design for Direct Mail & Variable Data

Direct mail rewards relevance. Our designers build templates that flex with variable data — name, location, plan, recommended product — without breaking layout, so a single creative ships thousands of personalized variants.

Packaging, Inserts & Dimensional Pieces

We design packaging that protects, sells, and reproduces well — from folding cartons and product sleeves to launch-kit inserts and sample boxes.

  • Folding cartons and product packaging
  • Launch and welcome kit inserts
  • Dimensional self-mailers
  • Trade-show literature and giveaways
  • Sample, demo, and clinical-trial kit components

Working With Your Brand Guidelines

If you bring guidelines, we follow them rigorously. If you don't, we'll build a small system on the fly so the assets we ship stay coherent across the campaign — and into the next one.

Frequently Asked

Common questions

Do you design and print, or just print?+

Both. Our in-house design team builds creative from scratch or refines what you already have, then hands it directly to our pressroom — keeping color, finishing, and substrate decisions in one conversation.

Can you work within our brand guidelines?+

Yes. We design inside your existing brand standards — typography, color tokens, voice — and flag anything that won't reproduce well on press before it costs you a reprint.

Do you handle packaging design?+

We do. Folding cartons, blister packs, kit inserts, dimensional mailers, and launch-kit packaging — all designed with the production realities in mind so what you see on screen prints cleanly.

How do you handle variable data and personalization?+

Our designers build templates that hand off cleanly to our VDP workflow, so a single design can render thousands of personalized variants — by name, geography, plan, or product — without breaking layout.

Ready to start your project?

Tell us what you need and your dedicated account rep will follow up within one business day.

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