Design Studio Pricing Request Form

Important: Not Accepting New Clients

Important: The Apparel Search Design Studio is currently, NOT accepting new clients. We apologize for the inconvenience. That notice stands at the head of this page because it is the fact a visitor arriving here most needs: no pricing request sent to the studio will start a project while it holds. Rather than leave the page as a dead end, it points visitors to the areas of Apparel Search where additional fashion design resources can be located, and those routes are set out below in full. Questions about Apparel Search itself, rather than about studio work, go through Contact Us.

A closed book is a normal state for a small studio whose work comes by referral and repeat clients, and stating it plainly respects visitors’ time better than an unanswered form would. The design work the studio is known for — presentation boards, hangtags and labels, prints, silhouettes and garment design for men’s, women’s and children’s ranges — is still documented across this section, and the example boards, tag galleries and print samples remain the record of what the studio does when its book reopens or when a reader wants a standard to judge other studios against.

Finding Fashion Design Resources Instead

We suggest you try the following areas to locate additional fashion design resources. Fashion Design Studios lists design agencies working for the fashion industry. Fashion Illustrators covers the artists whose drawings carry presentations and line sheets. Graphic Designers covers designers for logos, graphics and print work. Together the three directories answer the most common version of the pricing question — who else does this work — with listings a visitor can compare on specialty, market and location rather than on a single studio’s rate card.

Three further directories cover the specialties that sit beside general design work. Handbag Design Studios serves the accessories side, where construction knowledge matters as much as drawing. Retail Packaging Design Services covers the boxes, bags and tags a product reaches the shopper in. Technical Fashion Drawings covers the flat, measured drawings production works from — the least decorative and most consequential drawing in the building. A company that arrived here wanting a price for a specific job will usually find its job named in one of these six directories, with a list of firms that do it.

How Studio Pricing Usually Works

For readers comparing studios, design pricing in this industry is normally quoted per project rather than per hour, because the deliverable — a board, a tag program, a print, a range of silhouettes — can be defined before work starts. A useful pricing request, to any studio, names the piece, the number of garments or styles it covers, the market it serves and the date it is needed; quotes given against that brief can be compared fairly, while quotes given against a vague brief cannot. The studio’s own design studio pricing page remains in this section as part of its service documentation.

The Design Studio hub gathers the studio’s pages in one place: the presentation boards and their five examples, presentation tags and label design, print designs and the menswear and womenswear service pages. Read together they show the full shape of the work this form once priced, and they are the right preparation for briefing whichever studio a visitor chooses from the directories above.

One caution belongs on any pricing page: the cheapest quote is rarely the cheapest work. Design that has to be redrawn for production, boards that have to be rebuilt before a meeting and tag artwork a manufacturer cannot use are all paid for twice — once to the studio that produced them and once in the delay while they are fixed. The directories above list firms by specialty precisely so a visitor can weigh experience in the exact kind of work needed, which is the comparison that predicts a usable result, ahead of any comparison of headline prices.