Budapest Bank (member of GE Money Bank) asked Knoxville Consulting and Bencium to rethink its chaotic, illegible and not at all customer-friendly statements.

After receiving the Corporate Identity Handbook of Budapest Bank I had to redesign the current account and credit card account statements. This assignment was a real big challenge for me as a designer, because the statement printing technology has a lot of limitations. I could not be free 100% at designing. The goal was to develop a system, which is logic, legible and to make this dry and large information dosis easily understandable to every age group. I had to find a good compromise to design this information graphics piece. Since the project was launched, the client keeps receiving positive feedback from customers.

Note: every organisation sending invoices or statements to a large amount of clients should review the graphic design and legibility of their statements and invoices. A well designed invoice or statement has several advantages for your organisation.

two-page statement full view

“Continued on next page” arrow sign is important at multipage transaction lists

Banking fees: better typography, legible tables ensure the easy understanding.

Warning messages with yellow background.

Easy to find: legend is consequently at the bottom of the page

Small print: secondary information (legal text and address) was removed from the header and put at the bottom of the page. In this way we got more space

Transaction list: each second line has a light grey background and a pictogram to increase legibility and understanding.

Quick information about customer data and balance at a glance.

Transaction list: each second line has a light grey background and a pictogram to increase legibility and understanding.

The closing balance amount has a darker grey background: important information.

guidelines and style sheets for the software programmers