Design Studio Pricing

The Estimated Pricing Scale

This page contains an estimated pricing scale for your reference. The scale covers the studio’s five core design services. Silhouette (garment design) starts at $100. Label and hangtag design runs $250 to $400 and up. Spot prints and allover prints run $250 to $400 and up. Plaids and patterns run $200 to $250 and up. Presentation boards start at $300. Each figure is a starting point for a single design in its category, and the plus signs in the scale are honest: they mark where complexity begins to move the price, not a rounding habit.

The studio is explicit about how the scale should be used: pricing varies based on complexity of design, and all pricing will need to be confirmed on a case by case basis. Please utilize the scale as a general guide. Design concepts require various levels of intricacy, so your design criteria will need to be discussed prior to quoting final costing. A simple silhouette and a fully engineered garment are both “garment design” on the scale’s first line, and only a conversation about the actual brief can price the distance between them.

What Each Service Covers

Silhouette design, the garment design line, is the drawing of the garment itself: the shape, proportions and styling of a piece, the starting point of every range. Label and hangtag design covers the small printed identity pieces a garment carries, the woven or printed label at the neck and the hangtag that speaks for the brand on the rail; the price band reflects the difference between a single clean tag design and a coordinated label program. Spot prints are placed artwork, a graphic positioned on a specific panel of a garment, while allover prints repeat across the whole cloth, the distinction that puts both on one line of the scale at the same band but makes the allover the more engineered job.

Plaids and patterns are the repeating surface designs, the family collected on the studio’s Design Studio Patterns page, where seven examples show the range from paisley and geometrics to novelty and abstract designs. Presentation boards are the studio’s selling tool: composed boards that present a range, a print story or a concept for a sales meeting, trade show or special event, priced from $300 because a board’s work is composition and judgment as much as drawing. The full list of what the studio offers sits on the Fashion Design Studio Services page, which this scale prices.

Getting an Exact Quote

For more specific pricing, fill out the Pricing Request Form. The form is the studio’s starting point for turning the general scale into a number for a specific job, and a useful request names the service, the number of designs, the products they are for, and any deadline the work has to meet. For price quotes on a project that spans several lines of the scale, a silhouette with its prints and boards, for example, the form is also where that combined scope is described, so the quote can be built for the project rather than assembled line by line.

If you need help turning your designs into actual products, you can contact the Production Services Department, which handles the sourcing and manufacturing side that begins where studio artwork ends. The Apparel Search Design Studio is a full-service fashion industry design resource, and the pricing scale on this page is its front door: an estimate to plan with, a form to ask with, and a confirmation before any work is priced as final.

Estimated Prices at a Glance

* Pricing varies based on complexity of design. All pricing will need to be confirmed on a case by case basis. For price quotes, please fill out the Pricing Request Form.