Hire a Graphic Designer

Hire a graphic designer.
Skip the recruiting and the hourly clock.

Get a dedicated design team for one flat fee — a faster, cheaper alternative to a freelance graphic designer or a full-time hire. Unlimited tasks, 48-hour turnaround, source files included. From $399/month. Onboard in 24 hours.

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Hiring a designer is slow and expensive; freelancers disappear mid-project. — A subscription gives you a dedicated team you can switch on in a day and pause when you don't need it.

Aditya Kathotia

Aditya Kathotia

Founder, Digital Polo · Operating since 2010

How it works

Three steps. No interviews.

From signup to first delivered file — 24 hours.

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Subscribe

Pick a plan and you're onboarded within 24 hours. No job posts, no interviews, no contracts to negotiate.

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Send your first brief

Email what you need or use your PM tool. Your dedicated designer picks it up the same day.

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Receive in 48 hours

Completed work with all source files and unlimited revisions. Scale up, pause, or cancel anytime.

How it compares

Freelancer vs full-time hire vs subscription

The real cost and speed of each way to get a graphic designer.

OptionTypical costSpeedScopeBest for
Job board / recruiter$4,200 – $9,500 / mo loaded30–90 days to hireOne person, one skillsetConstant single-discipline volume
Freelance graphic designer$50 – $150 / hrHours–days to startProject by project, one styleOccasional, well-defined projects
Marketplace (Fiverr/Upwork)$15 – $80 / hrVariableOne-off assetsThrowaway or experimental work
Digital Polo (dedicated team)$399 / mo flatOnboard in 24h, 48h per taskEvery discipline, unlimited tasksOngoing, multi-format design

When it's the better hire

The right call instead of a freelancer or salary

Where a design subscription beats the traditional ways to hire.

Instead of a freelance graphic designer

No hourly clock, no scope creep, no chasing replies. One flat fee, unlimited tasks, and a team that doesn't disappear mid-project.

Instead of a full-time hire

No $5k–$9k loaded monthly salary, no recruiting, no benefits or downtime between projects. Design capacity that flexes with your workload.

Instead of an agency retainer

No five-figure minimums or per-project quotes. Big-agency quality output at a fraction of the cost, with source files always included.

When you need more than one skillset

Logos, social, print, web, packaging, decks and illustration from one subscription — instead of hiring (or vetting) a different specialist for each.

When workload is uneven

Pause in slow months and resume when pipeline returns. You pay for a busy month, not an idle salary.

When you need it now

Skip the 30–90 day hiring cycle. First designs land within 48 hours of your first brief.

Why Digital Polo

A design hire that doesn't carry hiring risk.

What you get that a freelancer or new employee can't guarantee.

16 years of operating history

Operating continuously since 2010 — a stable design partner, not a gig that vanishes.

Source files & full rights

Every job ships with AI, EPS, PSD, PDF and Figma. You own the editable files, with white-label rights included.

No contracts, pause anytime

Month-to-month. Pause or cancel anytime, with a 7-day money-back guarantee on the first month.

Pricing

One flat fee. No salary, no hourly clock.

Pause or cancel anytime. 7-day money-back guarantee.

Partner

399

A dedicated designer for most businesses.

  • Dedicated designer
  • Unlimited design tasks
  • 48-hour delivery
  • Unlimited revisions
  • All source files included
  • Pause or cancel anytime
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Soulmate

899

A dedicated team for high-volume needs.

  • Dedicated team, parallel tasks
  • 24-hour priority delivery
  • 24×7 support across time zones
  • Illustration & complex work
  • All source files included
  • Formal IP transfer paperwork
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Hiring FAQs

Freelancer, full-time, or subscription?

Straight answers before you hire.

If you have a single, well-defined one-off project, a freelance graphic designer billed per project can be the cheapest route. If you have ongoing or varied design needs — social, ads, print, web, decks — an unlimited subscription is usually cheaper and faster. A senior freelancer at $80–$150/hr for 10–20 hours/month costs $1,200–$3,000/month; Digital Polo's Partner plan is $399/month for unlimited tasks across every discipline, with no per-project scoping or revision fees.

Freelance graphic designers charge roughly $25–$150 per hour in the US (2026), depending on seniority. A full-time in-house designer costs about $4,200–$9,500 per month fully loaded (salary, benefits, software, overhead). Digital Polo replaces both with a flat $399/month subscription for a dedicated design team and unlimited tasks.

You're onboarded within 24 hours of subscribing and your first designs land within 48 hours of your first brief — versus a 30–90 day cycle to recruit and hire a full-time designer, or the back-and-forth of vetting a freelancer.

Yes. You work with a dedicated designer (Partner plan) or a dedicated team (Soulmate plan) who learns your brand and carries it across every task — so you get consistency without managing a payroll employee.

You can — the plans are month-to-month, so you can subscribe, get your project done within the SLA window with unlimited revisions, and pause or cancel. Because there's no per-project fee, a single busy month often costs less than a comparable freelance or agency quote for the same volume.

Our team covers logo and brand identity, print and packaging, social and ad creative, web and UI/UX, presentation, and illustration. Instead of hiring a different specialist for each discipline, you get all of them under one subscription. See our full range of graphic design services.

Hire a design team today. $399/month.

Onboard in 24 hours. Unlimited tasks. Source files included. Pause anytime.

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