Branding
Brands builtto be believed.
The premium practice at designs.art. Advisory when you need the thinking, fixed-scope projects when you need the work — delivered with source files and a guidelines PDF you can hand to any future team.
Specialist-led, always · Fixed-scope quotes · Source files + guidelines
Brand advisory
A specialist brain, on your bench.
For the thinking work that has to happen before the designer opens a file — naming, positioning, category strategy, competitive audits. Book by the hour or bring an advisor on retainer.
Resource maths
Great resource management begins here.
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Hire a brand lead
$165,000
a year, all in
- You pay twelve months for work that happens in two
- One person's taste, one person's references
- Strategy and craft rarely sit in the same hire
- Three to five months to find a good one
- Fixed cost long after the identity is done
- Notice period when they leave
- No pause, no downgrade
Branding agency
$60,000 to $200,000
per identity project
- Scoped before anyone knows the scope
- Discovery decks billed at studio rates
- Six to twelve week timelines
- You buy the whole process or none of it
- Change orders for anything outside the SOW
- Rollout and collateral quoted separately
- Revisions capped by round, not by outcome
designs.art Advisory
$2,999
a month, stop when it's done
- Buy the eight weeks you need, not the twelve months you don't
- Naming, positioning, category strategy, competitive audits
- Or $50 an hour in twenty hour blocks
- Fixed price identity projects alongside
- The same bench does the craft afterwards
- Stop the month the thinking is done
- Async: brief in Slack or email, no standing calls
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An in-house hire is a fixed annual cost whether or not there is work that month, and somebody senior still has to manage them. An agency charges you for its own management layer and quotes you a quarter to leave. designs.art is a monthly line item you can stop.
Salary benchmarks: Glassdoor, AmbitionBox, PayScale and Naukri JobSpeak, 2026. Employer cost includes statutory contributions, equipment, workspace and hiring.
How it runs
01
Brief
Ten-minute form. Tell us what you're building.
02
Fixed-scope quote in 24h
One price, one scope. No hourly billing.
03
Sprints with checkpoints
Concepts → refinement → finals. You review at each gate.
04
Handover
Source files, guidelines PDF, rollout kit. Yours forever.