From books to packaging, we adapt your layouts and language seamlessly, keeping creativity, clarity, and impact consistent across markets.
Design & publishing
Impactful translations for design and publishing
Language and layout,
crafted to work in harmony
Translation isn’t just about keeping the author’s voice intact. It’s also about the design, and making sure it continues to resonate with the audience. Whether you’re creating a beautifully typeset book, a multilingual magazine, or the packaging for your product – the design and language need to work in harmony.
We look at the entire process. We’ve edited children’s books for Penguin in multiple languages, worked with design agencies to adjust their layouts for different reading directions, and even helped engineers with schematics. When we translate, we don’t just look at the words. We help adjust your existing designs or templates.
Collaboration is at the heart of design
We integrate with your team and workflow, working directly with your designers, production teams, and editors. We work in all Adobe products, Figma, Canva and more specialist tools like AutoCad and GIS mapping. Regardless of the software, we’ll make sure your design can adapt to fit the language, create templates, and set up processes to make sure your designs are ready for translation.
Translating every aspect of your design
We work throughout the design and publishing process, helping you from beginning to end. Our solutions cover multilingual desktop publishing to transcreation, so your content can resonate wherever it is in the world.
Publishers.
We can help with books, magazines, marketing campaigns, and labels. We’ll work with you on the words, layout, and any graphics you might have. Whether that’s checking the title makes sense or if there are any cultural problems with your imagery.
Designers.
We can help with any visual content, like infographics, charts, graphics, or schematics. Make sure the layout works across the world. Support fonts in any script. And get your design ready to print.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Can Geo Language Services translate publications whilst keeping the original intended impact?
Yes. Long-form publication translation, such as books, magazines, and annual reports, needs linguists who can hold the editorial voice across length, not just at sentence level. We assign linguists by publication type and editorial register, and where the content is brand-led we transcreate rather than translate literally.
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How does Geo Language Services ensure the language and the design work in harmony for the target audience?
We treat translation and design as a single coordinated workflow rather than sequential steps. Translation, in-tool typesetting, layout adjustment for target-language constraints, cultural review of imagery, and visual QA on the typeset output are all delivered together, so the finished publication reads and looks right in every language version — not just the source.
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Can Geo Language Services adjust texts for different reading directions?
Yes, we often work with right-to-left languages, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Urdu, which need design mirroring, font selection for the script, bidirectional text handling, and locale-specific layout conventions. Vertical-writing layouts for traditional Chinese and Japanese in specific publication contexts, are also supported where the publication design calls for them.
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How much of a collaborative approach can Geo Language Services adopt?
For publication-led clients we typically work as an extension of the editorial team. We attend editorial briefings, contribute to source-side decisions that affect downstream translation, take terminology and style decisions collaboratively, and adjust workflow to the publication’s production cycle rather than asking the publication to adjust to ours.
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Which file formats can Geo Language Services provide in order to future-proof any further materials?
We deliver in an editable source format wherever possible, such as InDesign INDD and IDML, Illustrator, Word, or structured XML, alongside print-ready and web versions as required. Translation memory and termbases are held for every account, so subsequent updates leverage existing translated content rather than restarting from scratch.