Graphic Designers

Graphic designers who already know the sign trade

Built by people from the sign business for sign shops, fabricators and installers. Not a freelancer marketplace. A desk of designers trained on your substrates, your sheet sizes and your customers.

Why design wins jobs

The shop with the better proof gets the order

Two shops quote the same monument sign. One sends a flat drawing. The other sends the sign on the customer's building with three color options and a price. Same cost to produce. Different close rate.

Most shops lose that job not because they cannot design it, but because the designer is buried in production art and the proof goes out late or not at all.

Before and after: a flat JPEG logo turned into a storefront proof
What the service covers

Production-ready layouts that save time and win work

Creative design

Storefront, monument, pylon and interior concepts. Multiple options on one sheet. Renders on the customer's site photo so they approve faster.

  • Storefront and building signage concepts
  • Vehicle wrap design on the correct template
  • Logo cleanup and redraw for production
  • Sales-deck visuals with your branding
How it works →

Production-ready files

Permit drawings, customer proofs and layered fabrication files. Everything up to the point where your production specialist takes over.

  • Dimensioned permit elevations
  • Customer-ready proofs carrying your logo
  • Layered AI/EPS with cut paths separated
  • Spot colors and one-color versions
Pre-production files →
Why Trade Desk Graphics

Three reasons shops switch

1

Industry expertise

Designers are trained on sign production: substrates, standard sizes, cut paths, vinyl layering, illumination. You do not explain what a raceway is.

2

Visuals that sell and build

The same ticket produces the sales proof and the production file. The mockup your rep shows is the layout your shop fabricates.

3

Flexible support

20 hours a month up to a dedicated designer at 40 hours a week. Upgrade today, downgrade at the end of the cycle. No contract, no notice period.

Specialized work

Beyond the standard layout

Renders and presentations

Photo-realistic mockups on the customer's building, day and night views, and presentation sheets with callouts and specs built for the sales conversation. Covered in detail on the Creative Presentations page.

Sign types we design every week

  • Channel letters and halo-lit letters
  • Pylon and monument signs
  • Dimensional and routed letters
  • ADA and wayfinding programs
  • Vehicle wraps and fleet graphics
  • Window, floor and wall graphics
Pylon sign shown by day and by night
Get started

Add a designer without adding payroll.

Plans from $329 a month, additional hours $20 per hour. Dedicated designers from $2,599 a month. Every plan comes with an account desk, unlimited revisions within the brief, and files your shop can produce from.