Graphic design for small businesses
Real designers, doing the real work.
Halftone gives your business a designer of its own. They start with a strategy board and a digital brief, then design with you, using the best tools there are, AI included.
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- Logos
- Social
- Packaging
- Signage
- Web design
How it works
How the work goes
- 01
Strategy board
Your designer starts by mapping your business with you: who it's for, what it needs to say and where it shows up.
- 02
Digital brief
Together you write the brief the work is designed against.
- 03
Design
Your designer designs, shares and refines the work with you in your Halftone channel, until it is right.
Brand identity, social media, print, packaging, signage and web design: see what we design.
Hybrid, not replacement
People do the work. The tools happen to be AI.
Good design comes from someone who understands your business. Our designers think, decide and design. Modern tools let them move faster, so you get more of their time, not less.
Your designer
- Builds your strategy board with you
- Writes your digital brief with you
- Designs the work, start to finish
- Talks it through with you in your Halftone channel
Their tools
- Take the slow parts off their hands
- Resize your designs for every place they show up
- Keep your brand consistent everywhere
- Give your designer more time for you
Pricing
A designer on call, month to month.
- Month to month
- Your first week is free, with no card
- Cancel any time
- After the free week, we invoice your plan by hand
Projects are quoted per job, and non-profits and good causes can ask about a discount.
Community
Advice and strategy from your designer, every month.
$200CAD a month
- Your Halftone channel in the Halftone Buzz Community, for advice and strategy
- Strategy briefs and quotes, up to 5 a month
- Design reviews of 2 businesses or programs a month
Startup
For a growing business with more on the go.
$400CAD a month
- Everything in Community
- Access to more than one designer, so work can run side by side
- Strategy briefs and quotes, up to 10 a month
- Design reviews of 3 businesses or programs a month
One monthly price for your design work: ask your designer.
Start your free weekCorporate
For a bigger business, with several programs on the go.
$600CAD a month
- Everything in Startup
- Strategy briefs and quotes, up to 20 a month
- Design reviews of 3 businesses or programs a month
One monthly price for your design work: ask your designer.
Start your free week
The team
The people behind your designs
Jenn
Creative lead
Lin
Graphic and interior design
Emily
Graphic and interior design
Lynne
Communications and AI
The Halftone Buzz Community
A community, not a vending machine
Every client works with their designer in their own Halftone channel, inside the Halftone Buzz Community. That is where you talk, share and decide together.
Around your channel, small businesses like yours swap ideas and help each other. Your designer sets up your channel with you when you start.
Questions
Is this just AI?
No. A real designer does your work, start to finish. They use AI tools the way designers have always used new tools: to work faster and spend more time on you.
What does a plan cover?
Your conversations with your designer in your Halftone channel, your strategy board, strategy briefs and quotes up to your plan's monthly limit, and your monthly design reviews. A strategy brief is a short written recommendation that ends in a quote. Plans run month to month, your first week is free with no card, and you can cancel any time. See the plans.
When is it a quoted project?
A quoted project starts where design files do. Anything that delivers design files, from a logo to a website, is quoted per job, and the digital brief you write with your designer starts it. Non-profits and good causes can ask about a discount.
Who owns the designs?
You own your final designs once they're paid for. We keep our unused concepts and drafts and our own tools and templates. With your permission, we may show the work in our portfolio.