Small-scale Print Design- On the Web

August 6, 2006 9:30 PM

Where can I find a good print-design professional on the web- who'll do a small job?

My wife is opening a private therapy practice and wants to create a small flyer on cardstock- an oversize bookmark, really- to promote her business. It'll have her name, her picture, her address, and 4 or 5 sentences describing her practice. Neither she nor I have any significant skill at layout- and I argue that we should let a professional do the job.

Except it's a *very small* job. I'd expect to email someone the content and have them put together a couple layouts, then perhaps tweak the one she prefers. All told, I'd guess this is little more than an hour's work.

Can anyone recommend anyone doing this sort of service? It seems too small a job for the places I've found...

posted by carterk to media & arts (9 comments total)

what kind of print run?
posted by empath at 9:32 PM on August 6, 2006

I know one or two people who could potentially help you, they both do freelance and are quite good. The fact that they live in places that are not huge cities means they can charge more reasonable rates than Lance McFroofypants in his Manhattan studio. Email in profile if you're interested.
posted by twiggy at 10:11 PM on August 6, 2006

Pretty small- maybe 500 tops? Any more is silly, since she may likely change the location of her office in a year or two. We'd be happy to give the person the printing business, but thought it more likely someone would do the design in a common format and we'd have someone else do the actual printing. But it'd be fine to have a one-stop solution.
posted by carterk at 10:12 PM on August 6, 2006

I recommend getting in touch with Ink Stain Design.
posted by veggieboy at 10:14 PM on August 6, 2006

I do cheap work. ;)

(I've worked in copy shop setting for a while and I do 'semi'-professional web design)

I guess I can pimp myself, since it was a question. Just check my profile for my email if you are interested.
posted by gregschoen at 11:07 PM on August 6, 2006

elance.com Post a description of your job and designers will bid to work with you.
posted by SilverTail at 11:23 PM on August 6, 2006

[e-mail]
posted by Optimus Chyme at 5:52 AM on August 7, 2006

Thanks all! I'll be in touch.
posted by carterk at 8:35 AM on August 7, 2006

Once you've hired the artist and finalized the flyer look into gotprint to send the completed files to and have it printed for less. I have several customers that print quite a few flyers a year and they are quite happy with the service. Good Luck!
posted by johnd101 at 9:32 PM on August 7, 2006