Design subscription · Ireland

Studio hours: Irish business hours

Decks, websites, posts and brand for businesses of 5 to 200 people. Senior designers, one monthly fee, and your first piece in use next week.

  • A senior designer checks every piece
  • Pause or cancel monthly
  • Your time zone, Dublin hours

How it works One example job, start to finish: Forelight’s seed deck, needed by Thursday

Call to finished deck: 4 working days (example)

You four quick steps: book, brief, comment, approveUs everything elseDone

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Call bookedTue 4 November · 14:00 to 14:20 · Irish time

20 minutes with a senior designer

  • The job on your mind, and when you need it
  • How it would run, step by step
  • Which plan fits, and what it costs

Step 1 of 7 · Book · Today

Twenty minutes to see if it fits.

You
Pick a time that suits you. Bring the job that is on your mind.
Us
You talk to a senior designer, not a sales team. We show you how your job would run.

Example job in the client portal · times are illustrative

Partners and platforms

  • Adobe
  • Google
  • Webflow
  • Framer
  • WordPress
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Before Grafkit

Why teams switch to Grafkit.

Tap the ones you have lived through

  • a named designer who answers, in your hours

  • most requests are back in two or three days

  • tell us Thursday, we plan back from it

One senior team for one monthly fee. You say what you need in plain words, and a person checks every piece before it reaches you.

Work

Three concept studies: fictional brands we made to show what one subscription covers, each labelled as such.

Concept studies · fictional brands by the Grafkit team

Concept study · Physiotherapy · Galway, Kilkenny, Clonakilty

Ardú Physiotherapy

The brief: We have three good clinics that look like three different businesses, and every one of them looks like a dentist. We want people to feel calmer before they have even walked in.

Asked for
Identity, booking website, shopfronts, stationery, patient print
Grafkit job
17 requests over 11 weeks
Plan
Studio Plus
Finished by
Shopfront · Salthill, with window vinyl and A-board
Website · homepage and three-step phone booking
Stationery · letterhead, GP referral pad, appointment card
Print detail · copper foil sun, blind-embossed arch
Patient booklet · A5, pages 4 and 5
Interior · arch mural and A2 waiting-room poster

The standard

A senior designer checks every piece before you see it. This is the list they work through, every time, on every request.

Try it. Four things are wrong with this poster. Can you find them before we do?

0 of 4 found

Launch night

Example poster · A3 · Brí Cider is a concept study

  1. Your brand, used properlyColours, type and logo exactly as your guidelines say.
  2. Every word read twiceNames, numbers, dates and spelling checked against your brief.
  3. Made for where it is goingSized, exported and named for the screen, the printer or the platform.
  4. Readable by everyoneContrast and minimum text sizes checked, on a phone as well.
  5. Print-ready when it is printBleed, colour and resolution checked before it reaches a printer.
  6. Source files includedOrganised and labelled, so your team can edit them later.

Why a subscription

You stop chasing people, the brand stays the same everywhere, and you know what design costs before the month starts.

What you needHiring a designerA freelancerGrafkit
A senior designer on every pieceIf you hire oneSometimesYes
Starts this weekNo, monthsIf they are freeYes
Decks, web and brand in one placeRarelyRarelyYes
A cost you can planSalary and morePer jobOne monthly fee
Stop when you wantNoYesMonthly
  • Hiring a designerA salary and more, months to start, one set of skills.
  • A freelancerPaid per job, when they are free.
  • GrafkitA senior team this week, one monthly fee, stop any month.

Illustrative · a senior designer in Ireland, year one

A hire costs more than the salary.

Before they design anything, a senior hire means recruiting, employer costs, tools and a few months of waiting. Then you have one person and one set of skills.

€64,000

Drag it. Employer costs and recruiting move with the salary; tools stay the same.

Salary
€64,000
Employer PRSI and pension
€9,500
Recruiting
€10,000
Laptop, fonts and software
€5,000
Time to hire
2 to 4 months

Year one, before the first piece of work€88,500That is about €7,400 a month.

Grafkit is one monthly fee, with no hiring, notice periods or gaps when someone is on leave. Compare: Grafkit plans start from €1,950 a month

Plans

Every plan is month to month, with one flat fee. We agree the right one on the call, so you never pay for more than you use.

Example · one month on Studio, for Forelight

What a plan buys, in the things you would ask for.

  1. Week 1

    Seed deck, 12 slidesabout 3 days
  2. Week 2

    Investor one-pagerabout 1 day
    Launch posters, 6 sizesabout 2 days
  3. Week 3

    Website hero and pricing pageabout 4 days
  4. Week 4

    Product screens for the app storeabout 1 day
    Brand guidelines for the teamabout 1 day

Six requests in one month, two running at a time on Studio. Each new one starts as soon as a slot is free.

For a steady flow of posts and decks.

€1,950a month, ex VAT

  • One request at a time
  • Posts, graphics and decks
  • A senior designer on every piece
  • Pause or cancel monthly
Book a call about Essentials

Our suggested start

For teams launching, raising or rebranding.

€3,450a month, ex VAT

  • Two requests at a time
  • Everything in Essentials
  • Brand and guidelines
  • Motion graphics for social
  • A named lead designer
Book a call about Studio

For when your website is the shop window.

€4,950a month, ex VAT

  • Three requests at a time
  • Everything in Studio
  • Website design and build
  • Website care each month
  • Promo films, 3D, cinemagraphs and motion
Book a call about Studio Plus
  • Senior designers onlyNo juniors learning on your work, and nothing passed to subcontractors.
  • A person checks every pieceA senior designer checks every piece before it reaches you.
  • You own everythingFinal files and source files are yours the day they are signed off.
  • One fee, no surprisesNo hourly bills, no setup fee for the plan, no extras you did not ask for.
  • Pause or cancel any monthNo contract to sign. Stop before your next month starts.
  • Hours that suit you: Dublin hoursCalls, reviews and replies in your working day.

Questions

Something else on your mind. Ask it on the call.

Do I need to know anything about design?

No. Tell us what the thing is for and when you need it. We ask the design questions so you do not have to.

Will it be junior work?

No. Senior designers do the work, and a senior designer checks every piece before it reaches you.

How long does a request take?

Most single requests come back in two to three working days. Bigger jobs are split into steps, each with a date.

What counts as one request?

One piece of work you could describe in a paragraph: a deck, a set of posts, a web page. If a job is bigger, we show you how it splits before we start.

Is this for a business my size?

It is built for businesses of 5 to 200 people who need design every month but not a full-time hire.

Do you make videos and 3D?

Yes. Promo films, 3D product shots, cinemagraphs and motion graphics are part of Studio Plus, and motion for social is part of Studio. Live-action filming days are quoted separately.

Do you use AI?

Where it saves you time, for research, first variations and resizing. A senior designer makes every decision and checks every piece, and nothing goes out that a person has not finished.

What does it cost?

Essentials is €1,950 a month, Studio €3,450 and Studio Plus €4,950, all ex VAT. One flat monthly fee, and we agree the right plan on the call once we know your workload. No hourly bills, and you know the cost before the month starts.

What if I am not happy with the work?

Tell us in the portal. We revise until it is right.

Book a call

Bring the job that is on your mind. You talk to a senior designer, not a sales team, and leave knowing exactly how it would run and what it would cost.

  • No obligation
  • Times in your time zone
  • Video or phone

20 minutes with a senior designerYou talk to a senior designer, not a sales team

What is the job?
Needed by
Pick a time

Opens an email to hello@grafkit.ie. Send two times that suit you and we reply with an invite within a working day.

Not ready for a call?

Send us one brief. We reply within a working day with how we would run it and what it would cost.