Gilbert Paper Company: Annual Reports as Microcosms / Macrocosms
Two tiny brochures each unfold to poster size, defining an annual report as such: A Microcosm of a company (everything about the company in one report), and as a Macrocosm (a company’s largest form of promotion each year). The package was mailed to annual report designers as part of a paper sample offer (Esse and Oxford brand papers). >
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From the covers:

Annual Reports as Microcosms:
Record of profit and loss designed to drop perfectly into a dark file drawer

Annual Reports as Macrocosms:
A strange form of literature mandated to appear once a year courtesy the SEC