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We’re Design Cloud, a Manchester-based graphic design subscription service that provides bespoke, high-quality graphic design with a quick turnaround — all for an affordable, flat-rate monthly fee.
We’re an unlimited subscription service, meaning you pay a simple monthly fee that gives you as many designs, revisions and top graphic designers as you need. Simply send us a design request and one of our professional, experienced and highly-skilled designers will bring it to life by the next working day.
Unlike the hassle, headaches and high costs that come with hiring an expensive graphic design agency or an unreliable freelancer, Design Cloud’s service is simple, seamless and stress-free. If you have an idea that you can describe to us, we’ll design it for you.
Signing up for Design Cloud is simple and quick.
If you need help with ongoing graphic design work, we can set you up with an experienced designer in under a business day for just £599pm.
Here's our simple four step process:
Everything starts by watching or booking a demo to learn how our service works.
Our plans are tiered based on the complexity of work that you need to access. Pick a plan and sign up online.
Once signed up, you can access our platform right away and start sending requests to your design team
Once you've submitted your first request, we'll set you up with your designer and you're ready to start working together.
Our design scope in broad and there’s not much we can’t work on – Here’s our design scope as a guide. If there’s something we’ve not listed below, get in touch and we’ll let you know if we can do it.
We know that choosing the right graphic design agency in Manchester is important, so here are just a handful of reasons you should choose us.
Whatever your graphic design needs, Design Cloud offers plenty of unique benefits that you won’t get by working with an expensive graphic design agency, inexperienced in-house designer or unreliable freelancer. We’re not the only graphic design subscription service around, but with a team of solely UK-based designers and actual offices located in the creative powerhouse that is Manchester, we believe that we’re the best in the country at what we do.
Why spend weeks waiting for your designs to get finished when you can get them the very next day? Once you’ve submitted a design request, you’ll receive your completed design the next working day. If you have a Design Cloud PRO or Design Cloud Teams account, you can get it back the same day. We know just how rapidly things move in today’s digital age, which is why we’re committed to such quick turnarounds.
All of our designs are completely bespoke and created according to your brief. Because we’re not a branding agency, our designers rely on the direction you give them and then they use their skills and experience to bring your idea to life. Unlike other graphic design agencies, we’ll never take liberties and design something you didn’t ask for.
Hiring a decent graphic designer can be a risky, stressful and time-consuming process, and that’s just researching who’s out there. With Design Cloud, you can bank on high-quality designs delivered to you quickly by professional, reliable designers. Our simple, streamlined service eliminates unnecessary meetings and phone calls that eat into your time, so you can focus on running your business.
Design Cloud is an affordable and cost-effective answer to your graphic design needs. We’re cheaper than hiring an expensive agency, and because we offer unlimited design requests and revisions, we’re good value for money. There are no extra charges or surprise costs, no matter how many requests you submit. Because your designs are produced by professionals, you don’t have to worry about commissioning costly redesigns down the line.
Our sleek, easy-to-use portal is where you can create design briefs, manage your revisions and add (or remove) extra designers to your account.
We don’t source designers from overseas where the time difference can make communication difficult. All of our designers are in-house and based at our office in Spinningfields, Manchester meaning you get a smoother and more seamless experience.
There’s no limit to the number of designs you can request. Our designers will work through them individually in the order you submitted them, and as soon as one design is finished and approved, we’ll get to work on your next one right away.
There’s no limit to the number of revisions you can make either. If you’re not happy with the first design we send you, simply submit another design request, tell us what you want adding or changing and we’ll aim to get your revised design back to you with the same quick turnaround.
If you require a large number of designs to be completed quickly, you can scale up your service by adding as many designers to your account as you please. You can just as easily scale back your design team when your demands die down. We like to call it our “pay as you grow model.”
As well as producing quality design work quickly, we take pride in providing an excellent service to all of our clients. No matter what subscription plan you’re on, our UK-based support team are here to handle any request you might have and help you every step of the way. We’re powered by real people, so you can expect a friendly, personable and helpful service.
We know that our service is not like other graphic design agencies in the Manchester area. You probably have questions about how it all works - Here are some of the most frequent questions we get from potential customers and some general answers to graphic design related questions too.
Design Cloud offers three subscription plans for you to choose from, depending on the type of work you need to access: Essential, Agency and PRO.
You can for 1month, 3 months, 6 months or 12 months — it’s totally up to you. There are absolutely no hidden costs, meaning the price you pay is the price you pay.
Thanks to our discount system, the longer you sign up for, the more money you’ll save. If you commit to 12 months, you’ll save 15% on the price of your subscription. If you’re not ready to commit long-term straight away, you can subscribe month-to-month and still get the graphic design help you need for an affordable flat-rate fee.
When it comes to graphic design, there isn’t much we can’t do. Our versatile, experienced and highly-skilled designers can create anything from digital content like infographics and landing pages to physical assets such as product packaging and corporate brochures.
While the scope of our service is broad, we specialise in taking care of your smaller, day-to-day design tasks like social media graphics, Google PPC (pay-per-click) ads and flyers and posters.
We are a Manchester graphic design agency, working with clients across the local area of the North West. We work with clients across the country, too, but we pride ourselves on being Manchester’s number one graphic design agency. We can work fully remotely, however.
This means that you can submit design requests online, and we will then send the finished product back to you online too, meaning that our process is incredibly quick and simple.
The talents and skills of our team are wide-ranging – we can design pretty much anything you want, as long you are able to explain or show us what it is that you want to be designed. From brochures and logos to websites and infographics, we can do pretty much anything graphic design-related. If you’re not sure, then simply get in touch with us today to find out how Design Cloud can help you. And if we can’t help ourselves, we happen to work with Manchester businesses across the area, so we might be able to introduce you to someone who can!
While the list of things we can design is rather long (as you can see above!), our work is firmly rooted in graphic design. Unfortunately, that means we can’t help you with animated 3D video, CAD (computer-aided design, most commonly used in product design), SEO (search engine optimisation) or copywriting.
We’re also not a branding design agency. While we’re a friendly bunch who love to help, but we can’t sit down, have a coffee with you and come up with a visual identity for your business from scratch. We specialise in bringing to life your existing ideas. So if you already have a clear design concept (including specific fonts, colours or images) for your company but don’t have the time, skills or available personnel to make it happen, then great, that’s where we can help!
If you are looking for help with branding, video, animation, copywriting or any of the non-Design Cloud services mentioned above, we work with multiple award-winning agencies across all areas of digital and we’ll be happy to introduce you to them.
Design Cloud is for anyone who’s looking to level up their visual identity through clean, sharp and high-quality graphic design. We’ve worked with businesses of all sizes across different industries, including insurance, recruitment, finance, events, music, real estate, automotive, film and TV. Although our designers are all UK-based and our offices are located in Manchester, we work with clients all over the globe.
Design Cloud isn’t here to replace your existing design team, but to offer an efficient, reliable and cost-effective solution to your smaller, day-to-day graphic design needs — whether that’s unlocking a bottleneck problem, helping you to scale up your design output or bringing to life those design ideas that can profit your business.
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Who is currently outsourcing your design work to freelancers and are looking for a more consistent service with fixed pricing.
Who need to scale up their digital marketing and split test Facebook, Instagram or Google PPC ads in a cost-effective way.
Who needs clean, compelling and high-quality graphics to elevate their pitches and presentations and impress potential clients.
Who needs eye-catching visuals (like album cover art and social media graphics) to help capture the ears of music fans.
Who needs to free up your in-house designers from small design tasks so you can speed up productivity.
Who want an affordable graphic design solution to help them with marketing material, editing photos of vehicles or creating graphics for their latest blog.
Who doesn’t want to employ an in-house designer, but needs graphic design help with creating brochures, social media content or sales material.
Who needs graphic design help to create razor-sharp sales materials, property brochures or e-flyers to help increase sales and lettings enquires.
Who needs a reliable graphic design team to create unique social media content, update menus and special offer artwork without the hassle.
No – none of the work and graphic design that we do for your business is outsourced, and none of it is performed by freelancers. Every single asset and task that we complete is performed by our own people – a dedicated team of experienced graphic designers based in Manchester from our own office.
Yes. Unlimited graphic designs means unlimited graphic designs. When you choose to work with Design Cloud, there is absolutely no limit to the number of design requests that you can submit – meaning you are free to go wild with requesting a range of advertising, online and marketing materials from our talented artists.
There is also no limit to the number of revisions you can request either. If you get a design from us and there are things you want to change, big or small, you are welcome to request as many revisions as it takes to get things perfect. One thing to remember is that our specialists and expert graphic designers are only human.
We never outsource work and everything is completed by our own Manchester graphic design team. That means that we will work through the design requests in your queue, one design request at a time. We will move through your queue ongoing, allowing you to add and rearrange your key to keep your priorities how you want them.
The good news is that if you do need more designs and you need them faster, this won’t mean compromising on quality when you work with Design Cloud. Our service is easily scalable, allowing you to quickly add more designers to your account as and when you need them – doubling your daily design output.
We don't offer a trial, but all of our plans operate on a 30 day rolling contract. You won't need to sign into any long-term contract so you can use our service without any long commitment needed. If you decide that Design Cloud is a solution you'll use into the future, you can sign up on a longer-term contract to access additional discounts.
We do, quite often in fact! We work with other digital agencies and businesses all the time here at Design Cloud. In particular, we often work with digital marketing agencies who outsource their design work to us in order to give their own in house design people more time away from the smaller design tasks in their workload.
A lot of our partners have found that using Design Cloud for branding, logo design, artwork, infographics and more is a cost-effective approach that prevents a bottleneck and improves flexibility. Plus, there are a lot of businesses out there that don’t have the luxury of a talented in house designer, making Design Cloud an excellent fit. A lot of our work happens alongside the efforts of our partners – we don’t aim to replace existing graphic designers, rather to provide a cost-effective and flexible solution to enhance your output potential.
The design team here at Design Cloud is well experienced with a versatile range of tools, meaning that we can always choose the right one for the job. For example, we apply computer-aided design and hand-illustrated designs using a wide range of different software and digital design tools. Software such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are staples for any busy graphic designer.
You could, but it’s worth remembering that experienced graphic designers do a lot more than simply apply their creative skills. You have probably seen a business logo and wondered to yourself whether it was actually designed by a professional – this is a testament to the huge difference between professional design and that performed by the inexperienced.
The Manchester graphic designers here at Design Cloud have spent a lot of time studying design principles and understanding how to use different design elements for different projects. Our design approach is comprehensive, taking into account typography, colour, balance, lines, space and balance to create one visual message.
Well, this is something that the Design Cloud service has been designed to simplify. If you are worried that securing graphic design services might run over budget, then you’ve come to the right place. Our monthly fee for unlimited graphic design ensures that you always know what you’re paying for and that there won’t be any hidden or unexpected costs whatsoever. With us, you can enjoy all the graphic design services you could wish for – for a fixed monthly fee.
You won’t! Every single one of our subscription plans comes with unlimited brands, meaning that you can use a single account to submit design requests for multiple businesses at a time. It is worth remembering, however, that your graphic designer can only work on one task at a time from your queue. If you have one account, then all design requests from across different brands will fit into the same work queue.
The good news is that if you do need more designs done more quickly, our service is incredibly scalable. You can add more designers to your account as and when you need them, allowing you to double your daily design output.
You won’t! Every single one of our subscription plans comes with unlimited brands, meaning that you can use a single account to submit design requests for multiple businesses at a time. It is worth remembering, however, that your graphic designer can only work on one task at a time from your queue. If you have one account, then all design requests from across different brands will fit into the same work queue.
The good news is that if you do need more designs done more quickly, our service is incredibly scalable. You can add more designers to your account as and when you need them, allowing you to double your daily design output.
Think graphic design is just about knowing your way around making a pretty picture on photoshop? We’re here to mythbust that. While for some amateur designers, this may be just about all there is to it, when you hire true professionals like the team here at Design Cloud, you gain the benefit of having a design expert at the wheels. Some of the elements that our designers consider when designing something for your business includes:
Pictures – Whether used to display a service or product on your website, or simply to evoke a particular response and feeling from your users, pictures and photography is a huge part of online design.
Text – Ever been on a website with text too small to read, or in a font that doesn’t match the rest of the website? Our designers consider everything from size, font, colour and spacing in order to ensure that the text on your design is readable and matches your business.
Colours – Colours can have a huge subconscious effect on people and has long been an important part of business branding. The use of colour can make or break any graphic design.
Lines – More than just dividers, lines can be used to separate content, guide your users to the right areas of your website and design, create space and more.
Space – Space is more than just the area between things – it allows you to create shapes, guide viewers and accentuate certain parts of the design or text.
To design the right logo for your business, we’ll need to understand what you like and don’t like. We’ll discuss any ideas you might have about your logo, what logos tend to stand out for your target audience, and where your logo is going to be used. We’ll also look at examples of logos you like and don’t like in order to have even more clarity.
Whether you have a prototype design or concept ready or have absolutely no idea where to begin, we can help work alongside you to make sure that the finished product works for you and your business. The best part about all this is that it is part of our signature unlimited graphic designs package here at Design Cloud, meaning that you can request as many changes or redesigns as you like until your logo is perfect – at absolutely no added cost.
Graphic design is an indispensable tool that encompasses almost every aspect of your business, from its face down to the purchase funnel. Doing it right is key to the success of your business.
At Design Cloud, we can help with all kinds of graphic design. Our scope includes showstopper social media graphics, all the way to front-end website designs ready to go to your developer. Our graphic design subscription plans have already helped hundreds of UK businesses get more from their content marketing efforts. You can read about some of the businesses we've helped here.
Our speciality is graphic design, so we currently do not offer video production. Instead, our focus is on helping create engaging brand content. Our team are pros at creating graphics that encourage better results from all your content marketing campaigns.
We’re a creative agency based in Manchester, with a dedicated team of graphic designers who work remotely across the UK.
Each member of our team is hired in-house, and we can promise that we will never outsource overseas or to a freelance network. This is important to us so that we can continue to offer the most consistent graphic design work to your brand. It also helps us to replicate the experience of an in-house employee as much as possible. You can learn more about our team here.
First impressions count. It’s trite, but true. A study from Princeton University found that it takes just 1/10th of a second for someone to form a judgement about a stranger from their face — and the same goes for your business. In a split second, your brand’s appearance can grab peoples’ attention, pull them in and potentially convert them into a customer… or it can turn them off, drive them away and cost you a sale.
Graphic design can help you to hone in on your desired demographic, expand your reach and boost your bottom line. Good design conveys quality, credibility, consistency, success and trustworthiness — all things that make people more likely to buy your product or use your service. Every business has a story to tell, and graphic design is an incredibly powerful way of communicating your brand values and expressing your personality, allowing you to attract the right audience.
Graphic design is more than about just looking good, though; it can directly influence people’s behaviour. Different colours evoke specific emotions in people (red is synonymous with anger or passion, while blue is associated with calmness or coldness, for example). In fact, 92.6% of consumers say that colour dimension is the key factor affecting their purchase decision. Something as simple as the colour(s) of your logo can tap into the human psyche and turn casual observers into loyal customers.
In today’s digital age, graphic design is perhaps more important than ever. In most cases, people will first encounter your business online, perhaps through Google search, social media or your website directly. A recent study found that 94% of consumers’ first impression about a website is design-related, so it’s crucial that your virtual storefront looks appealing.
Social media is an essential marketing channel where hundreds of millions of people “congregate” every single day, but it takes creative, compelling designs to be able to cut through the constant stream of content, conversations and controversy. Did you know that tweets with visual assets generate 150% more retweets, while Facebook posts with images get 230% more engagement?
When it comes to your own content, graphic design can make it more engaging, effective and user-friendly. Whether you’re trying to inform your customers about a new product or service or simply educate them about a relevant topic, the use of visual elements has been proven to significantly help people take in and store information. Valuable, visually-pleasing content improves the customer experience and builds brand loyalty.
In the same way that great graphic design can elevate your business and expand your audience, bad graphic design can seriously hinder your company’s fortunes.
What do we mean when we talk about bad graphic design exactly? Bad graphic design can include specific things like an outdated logo, messy and uneven lines/shapes or low-resolution graphics that become blurry and pixelated when enlarged. It can also refer to broader issues like a logo that’s too bland or doesn’t fit your brand, a cluttered and poorly-functioning website or a lack of continuity and consistency across your company’s products (in other words, they don’t follow the same design guidelines).
There are many businesses out there who choose not to invest in graphic design, perhaps because they think doing it themselves will save them money or they underestimate the importance of it. But you can tell almost immediately when a business doesn’t use a professional graphic designer. “Cheap,” “amateur” and “unattractive” are all words you might use to describe their visual identity.
If you skimp on your image, it gives people the impression that you skimp on other parts of your business, like your product, your customer service and how you handle customers’ personal data. It’s a sure-fire way to turn people off, especially new customers who are discovering you for the first time. When it comes to your website, almost 40% of users will stop engaging if they find the content or layout shabby and tatty.
As for the financial aspect, handling graphic design yourself might actually cost you more money in the long run. Imagine launching a product (or worse yet, your brand) and realising you need a professional redesign just a few weeks later? Not only would updating your products, website and social media pages be a giant headache, but it would create confusion among your customers.
Plus, if you do it yourself, there are important technical things you have to consider. Are you using the right file formats? Are you working with the right dimensions and resolution? Do you have legal permission to use a certain image or font? If not, you’ll run into complications down the road.
Aside from being a top city full of cracking people, Manchester is officially the tech capital of the North and is home to the fastest-growing creative industry anywhere in the UK outside of London. The city also gave birth to arguably the UK’s most famous graphic designer, Peter Saville, who created iconic album covers for Manchester bands like Joy Division and New Order in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, as well as the current branding for the city’s Metrolink tram system.
Furthermore, Manchester boasts a rich cultural heritage full of creativity, innovation and revolution. The city helped to power the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, it’s where Mancunian Emmeline Pankhurst founded the British suffragette movement in 1903, and it’s at the University of Manchester where the world’s first electronic stored-program computer (aka the Manchester Baby) was built in 1948.
Manchester is the creative capital of the North. It's home to some of the biggest brands in the world, like the Co-op, Vimto, JD Sports and PG Tips. When we were looking for a base for our graphic design subscription service, we knew there was no better place to call HQ than Manchester. Our offices are based just off Deansgate, right in the heart of the city - so we never have to go far for some amazing inspiration. Our team is based all around the UK, but we all make sure to come together regularly for team meets in the place that Design Cloud was born.
And let’s not forget the many bands (like Oasis, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Simply Red), TV series (Coronation Street, Shameless and The Royle Family) and football teams (Manchester United and Manchester City) that Manchester has blessed the world with.
As a company that combines design, creativity, technology and good old fashioned hard work, there aren’t better places to call home than Manchester. ❤️
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