How much does a graphic design cost?
Please, use the link below to download a brief template, it'll help you describe the task. Having a design brief, web references, hand sketches, and a vision of the final product greatly reduces project time and cost and, which is even more importantly, helps me complete the job more accurately.
The design fee includes related processes like: discussion of ideas and concepts, approval of draft(s), revisions and adjustments, and storage of a ready-made material in a cloud storage with an active link for at least 6 months. And the taxes of course.
What are the stages of a design project?
Preparation
To create a design and solve your business need: we'll discuss application scenarios, agree on the style and concept, find out the technical requirements for the layout from the manufacturing company. If there's a brand book with the rules for using an identity (logo, fonts, color combinations and materials), it's a great help in drafting the terms of reference. As well as examples of photos and images from the Internet that you like and most suitable for the idea. We'll collect graphics in a folder: brandbook, logo and vector elements, hand sketches and examples from the Internet, photos at 300 dpi.
Creating
Depending on the scope of the task, it will take anywhere from 1 to 3 days to create the first design options. Next, we adjust details, change elements and fonts, insert text, and give it to the editor for proofreading. We add, subtract, correct as needed.
If you already have a design in place and only need to correct a small detail, you can get it done in a couple of hours.
Completion
Once we understand that we have made the final design(s), I begin to prepare the layout for submission to production. I translate all the text into curves, make sure the images are embedded and that the color elements on the border of the sheet have trim allowances, that black is 0-0-0-100% black, and that the color profile corresponds to the requested settings of the machines in the print shop. Design layouts are transmitted with a download link from cloud storage that remains active for 6 months and, if necessary, you can re-download all materials.