Specialist creatives,with AI superpowers.
Your on-demand design team — visual, UX, and video on subscription.
First drafts in 24–48h. Pause or cancel anytime. From $399/mo.
No contracts · Cancel or pause anytime · You own the files
Onboarded in 24 hours. Pay only when you're shipping.
30 days notice. Pause for a month or six. No drama.
No retainers, no SOWs, no minimums, no scope creep.
No benefits, no equipment, no hiring overhead.
What we design
Four disciplines, one team.
Fixed-scope brand projects. Monthly subscriptions for visual, UX, and video. Same taste, one bench.
AI Superpowers
Specialist hands. AI leverage. Human taste.
We pair specialist creatives with a modern AI stack so briefs move in hours, not weeks. Same craft, half the calendar — and none of the slop.
IDEATION
Ten directions before lunch.
Midjourney, Nano Banana, Whisk — used upstream to explore visual territory in hours, not weeks. You see more options. You pick faster.
PRODUCTION
The busywork gets automated.
Alt-text batches, resize matrices, deck versioning, motion variants. The 40% of the job that used to eat a junior's week runs in the background.
TURNAROUND
First drafts in 24–48 hours.
Not because the AI shipped it. Because the specialist spent their hours on judgement, not on repetition. Same craft, half the calendar.
TASTE
The human still picks.
Every model produces plausible work. A specialist decides which draft is worth showing you — and which to throw away. That is the whole game.
The math
Lean creative team at a fraction of the cost.
Hiring a full team? Expensive.
Agencies? Slow and expensive.
Freelancers? They ghost.
designs.art to the rescue.
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HIRE IN-HOUSE
True loaded cost
$9,699/mo
Salary $5,400/mo + benefits, equipment, hiring & management overhead
- • One graphic designer
- • One skill set — no motion, no UX
- Benefits, equipment & office space
- 6–8 week hiring cycle
- You manage performance & output
- Notice period when they quit
- No pause — fixed monthly cost
- Limited work experience — one person's ceiling
AGENCY
Monthly retainer
$10,000/mo
- • Manager + designer layers
- • Quarterly minimums & SOWs
- Long SOWs & quarterly minimums
- Slow, layered turnaround
- Management fees baked into retainer
- Generic output — your industry is one of fifty accounts
- Lock-in — exiting takes a quarter
- Limited clients — exposure to one roster
designs.art Growth
$699/mo
starts at $399/mo
- • Start this week — not after a 6–8 week hiring cycle
- • Specialist-level output across all three disciplines
- • First delivery in 24–48h
- No office, payroll, equipment or overheads
- Zero management — brief in, work out
- No notice periods, no attrition risk
- Performance managed for you — art-director reviewed
- Brands spanning 30+ geographies, 10+ industries
An in-house hire needs office space, equipment, management and a notice period when they leave. An agency charges you for its own managers. designs.art gives you all three disciplines, managed and reviewed, at one flat price.
Sources: Glassdoor 2026 · Levels.fyi · Naukri JobSpeak Report 2026 · Robert Half Salary Guide 2026 · ZipRecruiter · PayScale
How it works
Four steps. No drama.
Subscribe.
Pick a plan and meet your team within 24 hours. No discovery calls, no hand-wringing.
Brief.
Drop requests in your board — graphic design, UX, or video. As many as you need. First drafts start same day.
Receive.
First drafts within 24–48 hours. Revise unlimited times until it's exactly right.
Repeat.
Pause any month with 30 days' notice. Resume whenever you're ready. Files are yours, forever.
How it works — part two
No contracts. No surprises.
Four promises, in plain English.
01
Subscribe monthly
Pay month-to-month. No upfront annual commitment. No tier-lock. Upgrade or downgrade between plans whenever your needs shift.
02
Cancel anytime
30 days' notice. Cancel from your dashboard, not a phone call. No exit fees. No “are you sure” hoops. We make leaving easy because we know that's what keeps you here.
03
No agency contracts
No SOWs, no scope documents, no change orders. No “that's out of scope” emails. You brief, we deliver, you revise until it's right. The work is the contract.
04
No employee overheads
No salaries to negotiate. No benefits to budget. No equipment to provision. No hires to manage. No goodbyes to host. Just work, shipped.
Subscriptions
Pick your craft. Subscribe.
In-house specialist designer: $9,699/mo · Agency retainer: $10,000/mo · designs.art Growth: $699/mo
Starter
- 1 active request
- 48h turnaround
- All graphic design categories
- Source files included
- Unlimited revisions
- Your designer assigned
Growth
- 2 active requests
- 24–48h turnaround
- Illustrations + custom graphics
- Advanced motion
- Your specialist designer
- Everything in Starter
Pro
- 3 active requests
- 24h + same-day rush
- Priority queue
- Art director review
- Quarterly brand audit
- Everything in Growth
CANCEL ANYTIME · PAUSE MONTHLY · 30-DAY NOTICE
One-time projects
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Selected work
A wall, curated.
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PACKAGING
Skincare Range
EDITORIAL
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From the studio
Straight talk, no theatre.
A small studio of specialist creatives — visual, UX, motion — with an AI stack that keeps turnaround honest. No stock quotes, no invented brand names.
AI superpowers
Specialist hands. AI leverage. Human taste.
We pair specialist creatives with a modern AI stack so briefs move in hours, not weeks. The taste stays human — the busywork gets automated.
See plansWho's behind the work
Specialist creatives. Not interns, not middlemen.
A small, hand-picked team with 8+ years each across brand, product, and motion — ex-agency, ex-in-house at names you'd know.
How it worksSee the work
The wall does the talking.
We'd rather show than tell. Every discipline, every format, every size of company. Judge us on the pixels, not the paragraph.
Browse the wall
Manifesto, monthly
One letter. No noise.
A monthly note about taste, craft, and projects we're proud of. No tracking, no upsells.
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