Unlimited graphic design for education

Need graphic design support for your educational facility? Work with Design Cloud for daily design support from UK-based professionals from just £599pm.

30,000+ DESIGN REQUESTS COMPLETED for over 450 teams

WHAT IS DESIGN CLOUD?

say goodbye to the old-school way of outsourcing design

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In a digital era, academic organisation’s face more scrutiny than ever before. Parents, students, teachers – everyone's checking out social media, websites, and brochures before making decisions. And making the best first impression is crucial, since it can be the deciding factor in admissions. Lot’s of institutions don’t have the design support they need, and that’s where we come in.

We’re a graphic design subscription service that helps educational facilities who need design support on a regular basis, for a budget-friendly and reliable fee. Whether it’s re-designing pages for your website or creating eye-catching prospectuses, Design Cloud can help.

All you need to do is sign-up, pay a low fixed monthly fee and you can work with an experienced graphic designer from our in house team, every business day.

CREATIVE SERVICES

Get all the graphic design your ESTablishment needs, for LESS

Build an outsourced team of experienced, UK based graphic designers within a business day and only pay a fixed monthly fee per designer you work with.

PROSPECTUS DESIGN

Professional imagery and layout design for your next prospectus.

Document Design

Ebooks, white papers, guides, reports, case studies and more.

Social Media Design

Linkedin documents, Instagram carousels, Facebook posts and more.

Presentation Design

Powerpoint, Google Slides and PDF presentations.

Email Design

Full email newsletter design, graphics for Mailchimp, HubSpot and more.

Website Graphics

Blog headers, explainer graphics and promo banners.

Branding

Logo design, iconography, brand development and brand guidelines.

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Web Design

Marketing website design, landing pages and UI/UX Design.

General Design Work

Mockups, resizing images, reformatting documents, photo editing and more.

George Coles
"Working with Design Cloud has been fantastic. For us it was important to find a service that was low cost but high quality. The turnaround is fantastic, and we love how our designers understand our ‘brand’ and what we’re trying to achieve. Their assets have instantly elevated all of our projects."

George Coles

Principal

Efficiency

Shrink your budget, not your marketing ambition

Save big

45% Less

Save money versus hiring in-house designers or outsourcing design the old school way.

Quick set up

80x Faster

Forget hiring or interviewing freelancers. Get started with a designer in 1 business day.

Fast delivery

1 Day*

Receive simple design requests next business day (depending on complexity)*

Fully scalable

25+ Team

Work with an experienced UK-based web designer from our our talented in-house team.

DESIGN CLOUD VS THE REST

How we stack up vs traditional outsourcing

There are a lot of benefits to working with freelancers and marketplaces to outsource graphic design.  But when you need help with ongoing projects for your educational facility, it can get trickier to get the consistency and affordability that you need.

Here's how we're different:

Low, fixed monthly pricing

No surprise bills or awkward conversations. Our pricing is fixed on a per designer basis and never changes, regardless of how much you request or how many revisions to you make to your work.

FULLY SCALABLE SOLUTION

Need to increase your output? You can add multiple designers to your team in just a few clicks and scale back when demand drops. Our software platform makes managing design requests across multiple designers easy.

CONSISTENT AVAILABILITY & DESIGNERS

When you sign up. you'll work with the same designer for as long as you decide to stay with us. If your designer is off that day, a member of our team will pick up your work.

UK BASED DESIGN & SUPPORT TEAM

All of our team are based in the UK and are available to work with Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm (UK time). We're a remote first business with a head office in central Manchester.

We don't use AI for customer service (or design work) you'll always be able to reach out to a real human if you need any help while working with us.

PRICE COMPARISON

Save £23,235.87/yr vs Hiring in-house

Design Cloud gives you all the benefits of hiring in-house - without the risk or expense - and the flexibility of outsourcing without the hassle, frustration or limitations when trying to scale

Design Cloud vs hiring in-house

*does not include VAT

Full time Designer (London)
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£47,425.57 /pa
£3,952.13 /pm
This is a simple breakdown of the true cost of hiring a full time designer. This calculation assumes that the designer is based in London and works from your office. Average designer salaries vary by city and region. We have included links to support our workings and this information is correct as of August 2023.
Description
Data Source
Annual Cost
Monthly Cost
Base Salary (London)
Average base salary for a full time graphic designer based in London. This may vary by industry.
Annual Cost: 
£35,000.00 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£2,916.67 /pm
Employers NI
Employers NI contribution is currently 13.8%
Annual Cost: 
£3,609.53 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£300.79 /pm
Pension Contribution
The minimum employers pension contribution in the UK is 3%
Annual Cost: 
£1,050.00 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£87.50 /pm
Design Tools
This is based on an Adobe Creative Cloud annual subscription. This does not include additional software tools like Figma.
Annual Cost: 
£743.88 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£61.99 /pm
Stock Licences
This is based on an annual Adobe Stock subscription giving you access to 40 images per month.
Annual Cost: 
£383.88 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£31.99 /pm
Project Management Tool
This is based on an Asana business plan subscription. Other project management tools may cost more.
Annual Cost: 
£251.88 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£20.99 /pm
Email & Cloud Storage
This is based on a Google Workspace subscription. Other tools may cost more.
Annual Cost: 
£110.40 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£9.20 /pm
Office Space Costs (London)
This is based loosely on the average cost per employee for a serviced office space in London.
Annual Cost: 
£6276.00 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£523.00 /pm
Total Full Time Designer Cost
Annual Cost: 
£47,425.57 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£3,952.13 /pm
Design Cloud
View detailed costs
£24,189.70 /pa
£2,015.81 /pm
Our pricing plans tier up based on the complexity of work you need to access and costs go down the longer that you sign up for. This calculation is based on working with 3 designers from our team on a 12 month contract. All of our plans come with unlimited requests and revisions and this set up also includes access to our platform and the option to communicate with your design team in real time via Slack.
Subscription Plan (Paid monthly)
No. of Designers
Annual Cost
Monthly Cost
PRO (12 month)
Our PRO plan includes everything in essential and agency + web design and a Slack channel to communicate with your designers in real time.
No. of Designers: 
1
Annual Cost: 
£10,039.95
Monthly Cost: 
£836.66
Agency (12 month)
Our agency plan includes branding & logo design, Powerpoint presentations, ebooks, simple landing page design and more..
No. of Designers: 
1
Annual Cost: 
£8,069.90
Monthly Cost: 
£672.49
Essential (12 month)
Our essential plan includes simple day-to-day design work like social media content, website banners, blog graphics and more...
No. of Designers: 
1
Annual Cost: 
£6,079.85
Monthly Cost: 
£506.65
Total Design Cloud cost
Annual Cost: 
£24,189.70 /pa
Monthly Cost: 
£2,015.81 /pm

Design Cloud vs Freelance Designers

*does not include VAT

Freelance Designer
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£281.61 /per day
£2,252.98 /pm
This is a simple breakdown of the true cost of hiring a full time designer. This calculation assumes that the designer is based in London and will need a desk at your office. We have included links to support our workings and this information is correct as of Sep 2023.
Description
Data Source
Monthly Cost
Day rate (London) - 2 days per week
£275 /day
£2,200 /pm
Stock Licences
£3.99
£31.99
Project Management Tool
£2.62
£20.99
Total Freelancer Cost
£281.61 /day
£2,252.98 /pm
Design Cloud
View detailed costs
£69.90 /day
£1398 /pm
Our pricing plans tier up based on the complexity of work you need to access and costs go down the longer that you sign up for. This calculation is based on working with 2 designers from our team on a 1 month contract. All plans come with unlimited requests and revisions.
Subscription Plan (Paid monthly)
No. of Designers
Daily Cost
Monthly Cost
Agency (1 month)
Working with a designer on our Agency plan would give you access to Presentation design
1
£39.95 /day
£799 /pm
Essential (1 month)
Our agency plan includes branding & logo design, Powerpoint presentations, ebooks, simple landing page design and more..
1
£29.95 /day
£599 /pm
Total Design Cloud cost
£69.90 /day
£1398 /pm

Working day-to day

Design Cloud Designer
In-House Designer
Freelance Designer
Experienced, UK based designer
All of our designers have at least 3yrs commercial experience working for an agency or as an in-house designer.
High quality design work
We test all designers before hiring them and for the first 60 days that we work together, we quality check every piece of work.
Deal directly with the designer
Unlike a traditional agency, we don't have account managers. You deal directly with the designer assigned to you.
Communicate via email or Slack
You can communicate with your designers via Slack, just like you would with the rest of your team. PRO plan or Slack add-on required.
Learns your brand in-side out over time
Over time, your designer will get to know your brand in-side out. Just like a full time team member or freelance designer would.
Available for meetings and video calls.
All communication with our design team is done through our platform or via Slack. This dramatically improves efficiency and ensures that the time with your designer is spent creating as opposed to being on meetings about meetings.
BOOK A DEMO

We'll show you how it all works

If you need help with ongoing graphic design work, we could be a great fit. Here's what we'll discuss on the call:

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Your current graphic design set-up and the challenges you're facing.

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The type of work you need to create and which plan will be best suited.

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How our platform works and how we can help you hit your goals.

LEARN

HOW IT WORKS

Learn how Design Cloud works and what to expect when working with your new designers.

SAVE BIG

45% LOWER COST

Save money versus hiring in-house designers or outsourcing design the old school way.

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PORTFOLIO

VIEW MORE EXAMPLE DESIGN WORK

We've delivered over 30,000 design requests across multiple industries and markets. Check out a sample of our work.

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CASE STUDIES

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

We've helped over 450 businesses and household brands. View some of our recent case studies.