What to tell your graphic designer before starting a project

Communicating your vision:

What to tell your graphic designer before starting a project

Hiring a graphic designer is a great investment for your business. We help create visually appealing and effective designs that represent your brand and attract customers, but to ensure that the project meets your expectations it's so important to communicate your requirements before starting your project.

To help the process along here are some key things to consider before starting a project:

  1. Brand and marketing goals:
    Your designer needs to understand your business goals, target audience, and branding strategy. Share your marketing goals and objectives with your designer, including the message you want to communicate, the target audience, and the desired outcome. This information helps to create designs that align with your business goals and communicate the desired message to your target audience.

  2. Preferred style:
    Every business has a unique style that reflects its branding strategy. It's important to share your preferred style or styles you’re inspired by, including colour palettes, typography, and overall aesthetics. This information helps us align with your brand and appeal to your target audience.

  3. Brand Guidelines:
    If your business already has a branding guideline it's important to share it with us as this guideline will provide essential information about the preferred colours, typography, logo usage, tone of voice and other design elements - helping us create designs that align with your brand and maintain consistency.

  4. Timescales and expectations:
    Before starting a project, it's imperative to advise when you intend to launch these designs or if there are specific events they’re needed for. A clear understanding of your timeline will help deliver designs to a high standard rather than rushing and compromising on quality.

  5. Feedback and approval:
    A successful design project requires clear and effective communication between the client and the designer. It's important to establish an efficient feedback and approval process that enables you to provide feedback and approve designs promptly. This will help make necessary changes keep the dialogue open.

Effective communication with your graphic designer is key to creating successful designs that align with your branding strategy and meet your business goals. By sharing your branding and marketing goals, preferred style, brand guidelines, timeline, and feedback, you can expect designs that deliver results.