Publication Design, Inc. is a neighborhood kind of place. We don’t have a fancy lobby. PDI’s design studios and administrative areas are pleasant, clean, and comfortably spacious. The production areas are quiet, carpeted, and generally stacked to the walls with work in progress. Every one of our employees could probably tidy up their desk and straighten a bookshelf or two; the kitchen sink usually has dirty dishes, and the employee refrigerator is perpetually in need of attention.

But somebody once said about PDI: “You know, this looks like a place where work gets done.” We took that as high praise.

Company History

Publication Design Inc. was founded in 1988 as a graphic design studio, specializing in magazines and corporate communications. PDI subsequently added a variety of pre-press services including film production, high-resolution digital scans and proofs. The company was at the forefront of the digital printing revolution in the mid-1990s – implementing the newest wrinkles in technology – all the while remaining true to its roots in the graphic design marketplace.

Headquartered for most of its history downtown Denver, PDI purchased its own building in Wheat Ridge in 1999.

Variable Data technology, which allows clients to reach all their customers individually – and simultaneously – is among the newest of PDI’s services. PDI’s software-driven Variable Data capabilities generate printed materials that are totally personalized and unique, even though produced thousands at a time on high-speed digital presses. Our client’s contact or sales database is used for addressing, for individualized insertion of words or blocks of text in context, and for placing photos and other images into documents based on information contained in the database fields.

Variable Data is blurring the distinction between Mass Marketing and One-to-One Marketing; it is truly the bright and shining future of the printing industry.