Specialist creatives,with AI superpowers.
Your on-demand design team — visual design and UX on subscription.
First drafts in 24–48h. Pause or cancel anytime.
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
Three disciplines, one team.
Fixed-scope brand projects. Monthly subscriptions for visual and UX. 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
$95,000
a year, all in
- One person, one skill set
- Skill ceiling: two or three companies in a whole career
- A manager, marketing head or founder has to manage them
- Six to eight weeks to hire, longer to replace
- Benefits, equipment and workspace on top of salary
- Appraisals, leave, sick days, attrition
- Notice period when they leave
- Fixed cost whether or not there is work that month
- No pause, no downgrade
Agency retainer
$120,000
a year, locked
- You pay for their management layer too
- Quarterly minimums and statements of work
- Your brand is one account of fifty
- Junior hands on senior invoices
- Slow, layered turnaround
- Scope creep is billable
- New team every time someone resigns
- A quarter to exit
- Annual commitment, quarterly reviews
designs.art Starter
$549
a month, cancel anytime
- Skill and range built across 30+ brands, not three
- Zero management: brief in, work out
- Start this week, not in two months
- First drafts in 24 to 48 hours
- Unlimited revisions until it is right
- Every graphic category: brand, decks, ads, print, packaging
- Source files yours from day one
- No payroll, kit, desk or recruiter
- Design manager reviews before it reaches you
- Async: brief in Slack or email, no standing calls
- Pause or cancel any month
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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 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 or UX. 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 we work
Fully async. By design.
We do not run calls. Everything happens in writing on your board — which is exactly why the work moves faster than an agency that meets about it first.
Briefs are written
You drop the brief on your board. No meeting to explain it, no meeting to confirm it. Writing forces clarity — the brief is the contract.
Feedback is written
Comment on the file, annotate the frame, type the note. We read it, we act on it. Nobody sits through a screen-share to say 'make the logo bigger'.
No standups, no status calls
Every hour not spent on a call is an hour spent on your work. That is the whole reason first drafts land in 24–48h instead of next week.
Timezones stop mattering
Brands spanning 30+ geographies, 10+ industries. Async means your 9am and our 9am never have to be the same hour.
We work where you already work
Written briefs · Written reviews · No standups · First drafts in 24–48h
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: $799/mo
Starter
Graphic design, one brief at a time.
- One active request
- First drafts in 48h
- Every graphic design category — brand, decks, ads, print, packaging, illustration
- Source files from day one
- Unlimited revisions
- Your named technical specialist
Growth
Adds the screens.
- Everything in Starter
- Landing pages, marketing sites, app-store assets and UI mockups
- Custom illustration and icon systems
- First drafts in 24–48h
- Your named technical specialist, not a queue
Pro
Two briefs in parallel.
- Everything in Growth
- Two active requests, running at the same time
- First drafts in 24h, same-day rush available
- Design manager reviewed
- Quarterly brand review
- Priority queue
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One-time projects
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Selected work
A wall, curated.
EDITORIAL
Editorial Spread
BRANDING
Identity System
PACKAGING
Skincare Range
EDITORIAL
Poster Series
BRANDING
Brand Collateral
EDITORIAL
Annual Report
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.
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