For Styrian businesses that need print work regularly and have no designer in house. Fixed price per job or fixed hours per month.
A graphic designer for Graz creates what your business shows outside the website: ads in regional media, folders, price lists, signage for vehicles and buildings, trade show appearances. For most Styrian businesses a dedicated position is not worth it, because it amounts to a few hours a month. That is exactly the gap we fill, without you having to hire anyone.
REGION // STREUUNG
District papers, club magazines and municipal bulletins each specify different formats and resolutions. Design an ad once and squeeze it into every channel, and you get cropped edges and blurry logos. We create the variants right away, so all you have to do is forward them.
DRUCK // REINZEICHNUNG
We deliver to PDF/X-4 with bleed, embedded fonts and a matching colour profile. That way any print shop accepts the file without asking, whether in Graz, in Vienna or online. If your print shop has special requirements, we follow them.
VORLAGEN // TEMPLATES
Recurring items like monthly offers or event announcements we design once as a template your team fills in themselves. You pay for the design once, and the look stays consistent anyway. On small budgets that is the single biggest lever.
A single job starts at 290€, for example an ad or a folder. A monthly allowance from 590€ pays off as soon as something comes up regularly, because then no quote is needed for every small thing. Pure artwork, meaning the design already exists and only the print file gets rejected, starts at 190€. Us sitting in Vienna does not make the price higher, these are the same rates as for Vienna clients.
PER PIECE
from 290€
When one clearly defined thing is needed.
RECOMMENDED
from 590€ per month
For companies where something comes up all the time.
PRINT FILES
from 190€
When the design is done and the file gets rejected.
Need a brand first?
This page is for businesses that already have their visual identity. If logo, colours and typeface still have to be created, that is a brand project, not a design job. To the brand packages from 850€
I write the quote, I design, I build. You do not get an account manager standing between you and the work, you talk to the same person from the first question until after launch.
If something does not make sense, I say so, even when that makes the project smaller. In the long run that is more pleasant for both sides. I travel to Graz when a trade show stand is coming up and you have to have seen the space.
Design does not get better by polishing one draft longer, it gets better by trying many directions early and throwing most of them away. That is why the first days are the wildest and the last ones the calmest. A single job is usually done within a week, a bigger piece in two to three.
Briefing
Everything is still open. We ask what it is for, who sees it and what it has to do.
Sketches
Many rough directions, fast and cheap. This phase is for discarding, not refining.
Drafts
Two or three directions get worked out far enough that you can judge them.
Refinement
One direction remains. Now it is about spacing, type sizes and details.
Artwork
One result, in every format, ready to print. Nothing gets designed here any more, only checked.
Qualitative view of our process, without absolute values
We sit in Vienna, not in Graz, and we would rather say so openly than invent a branch office. For design work it matters less than you would think, because the result is a file. You look at drafts on screen, we talk corrections through over video, and the print-ready file goes straight to your print shop anyway. We do travel to Graz when it is about a trade show appearance and you have to have seen the space.
Many Graz businesses sell to Leibnitz, Weiz or Bruck, and there advertising still runs heavily on printed paper and regional papers. Anyone thinking only of the city designs for the smaller part of their customers. So we first ask where your customers come from, and only then which printed items are actually needed.
Graz has a young, academically shaped audience that spots advertising as advertising faster and looks away accordingly faster. For businesses wanting to reach that group, sober and clear design works better than loud. That is the direction we work in anyway.
The most common reason a file comes back from the print shop is the wrong format. You always get every variant from us at once, so you never have to ask again. You can use this overview even if you have the design made elsewhere.
Print specifications per ISO 15930-7 (PDF/X-4) and standard print shop requirements
Because you talk to the same person who builds the file. There is no account manager in between who first has to translate your correction. On top of that we build websites and do search engine optimization. If your folder points to a page that does not exist yet, or the same photos are needed for print and web, with us that is one job instead of three.
Tell us briefly what is needed and by when. You get a fixed price and a date, without a sales call.
A single job starts at 290€, for example an ad or a folder. A monthly allowance from 590€ pays off as soon as something comes up regularly. Pure artwork starts at 190€. These are the same rates as for our Vienna clients, the distance does not show up in the price.
Yes, because the result is a file. You look at drafts on screen, we talk corrections through over video, and the print-ready file goes straight to your print shop. We do travel to Graz when it is about a trade show appearance and you have to have seen the space. We do not invent a branch office that does not exist.
Yes, and we create the variants right away. District papers, club magazines and municipal bulletins each specify different formats and resolutions. Tell us which media you advertise in and you get the matching files in one package, so all you have to do is forward them.
Yes, and on small budgets that is the biggest lever. Recurring items we design once as a template your team fills in themselves. You pay for the design once instead of twelve times, and the look stays consistent anyway. We tell you beforehand what is worth turning into a template and what is not.
Yes, that is our main business. If your folder points to a page that does not exist yet, or the same photos are needed for print and web, with us that is one job instead of three. Web design starts at 2,500€ with us, details are on our page for web design in Graz.