WD’s Partial Schedule Project Fees

This is only a partial list of project fees.

  • Web Design: $1600–$5000+
  • WordPress Custom/Child Theme Development, Plugins: $1500–$5000+
  • Full-Page Print Ad: $800–$2200+
  • Flash Banner Ad: $400–$3200+
  • Gif Banner Ad: $400–$800+
  • Logo Development:  $1500–$10,000+
  • Web Development (Database Design (MySQL), PHP, Flash): per project

Please take note: Rarely do we bill on an hourly bases, retainers are the exception (see below). The above fees are use as a guide while preprapring your project proposals and estimates.

Retainer contracts can be very attractive to medium and larger businesses—they are only offered to clients with a favorable payment history.

Industry Pricing Guidelines (How Much Will it Cost?)

1. Logos and communications       

Logo or company symbol:         $500 to $15,000

Corporate identity applications (Business cards, stationery, etc.):      $125 to $5,000

2. Newsletters              

Newsletter layout and production (First issue including masthead & template. Subsequent issues from template, 2/3 original price or production costs plus photography & illustration costs): $1,500 to $10,000

Masthead design alone:  $400 to $1,000

3. Promotional brochures & collateral

Design: 46 panel brochure       $2,000 to $15,000

Stage One — Concept of cover and inside spread (Follow through of page layouts & digital production: Per page or flat rate):                                     $1,500 to $5,000

Copy or Headline Concept:        $700 to $2,000

Body copy (depends on amount of pages, materials and research supplied and technical knowledge needed):      $1,000 to $5,000

4. Annual Reports

Writing:                          $8,000 to $25,000

Design:                          $200 to $2,500 per page

Production:                    $50 to $80 per page.

Charts and maps for brochures or annual reports:   $75 to $3,000

5. Web Development

Design costs include working html pages but not programming. Sites requiring databases, special interactions, and e-commerce will need specialized programming and these features are not included in the design prices.

Look and Feel Design: home page design plus second or more page adaptation:   $500 to $4,000

Additional linking pages following the home page theme (Assumes that copy and photos supplied by client):        $300 to $3,000 per page

Form page that links to database:       $200 to $3,000

Basic shopping cart or e-commerce page:    $2,500 to $5,000

Web animations and moving illustrations:     $1,000 to $3,000

Banner Design (copy concept supplied):       $250 to $1,500

Static icons for site:        $200 to $1,500 each

6. Advertising

3 Concepts developed for an advertising campaign with presentation:  $3,000 to $20,000

7. Magazines

Complete magazine redesign or design:       $10,000 to $20,000

Interior spread:               $500 to $1,500

Cover design:                 $1,500 to $2,000

Article writing:                50 cents to $2 per word

8. Books

Hi-end book designs. (These projects may take multiple months to determine the direction, work with editors, establish grid systems, select type faces, and come up with award winning look for books or series of books. Trade books that have complex visuals may be higher):    $30,000 to $70,000

Standard textbooks:        $90 to $150 per page for design (plus $60 to $110 per page for production)

Book covers/jackets (design only, for illustration see “9. Illustration” below): $1,500 to $2,000

9. Illustration

This is a complex area so we refer you the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook.

It can be purchased here.

We will address a couple of areas in very general terms here as they are frequent requests.    

Book illustrations (Size on page, style and quantity of illustrations will affect the price):   $250 to $1,500

Small illustrations, 1/2 page and less: $50 to $500

Advertising:                    $500 to $10,000

10. Display

Trade show booth:          $5,000 to $50,000

Point of purchase:           $1,500 to $30,000

Counter cards/end caps: $1,500 to $5,000

Posters:                         $1,500 to $5,000

Billboards:                      $1,500 to $5,000

If you have questions or need a specific estimate for your project or RFP please contact us.

Additinal price guides:

How to Design Small Ads That Pay Off

In this week economy, this is exactly what you need. It’s a free step-by-step guide on how to help your advertising dollars work harder. Click above and you’ll learn how to pack a lot of information into an effective small space print ad.

How can you develop an effective print ad that fits a lot of information into a little space?

This is a good question, one that truly taxes the talents of any great designer.

But right now I’d like to give you a broad answer and then something a little more specific and finally I’ll point to a example that well help you understand my points.

First, you can develop an effective ad by establishing a visual hierarchy for your ad. And to do that you first need to rough-in the different elements of your ad using the Rule of Thirds. We’ll see an example of this Rule of Thirds a little bit later.

The rule of thirds

The rule of thirds is:

  • Use l/3 of your ad’s space for the headline
  • l/3 for the illustration
  • And l/3 for the copy and signature or the logo

To understand this Rule better go to the web and Google the search terms:

  • Golden Mean
  • Golden Rule
  • Or the Golden Ratio

By using this rule, you make your ad inviting to look at—enticing the reader to dig deeper into your message.

How to guide the reader’s eye

Once your ad is roughed-out, you must help guide your reader’s attention through your ad.

Getting back to the idea of visual hierarchy, have a visual starting place in your ad, emphasize one part, whether it be the weight of the headline or an intriguing illustration, let it capture your reader’s eye. By doing this you set up a pattern and a pattern will allow you to order your information in a logical way. If you can do that then you can increase the amount of information in your ad without it looking cluttered.

Using the grid

A helpful device for setting up a pattern is the grid.

Using a grid is easy. Just overlay an imaginary grid on your ad and use it to lineup your body copy, illustration, or logo. The grid will give your ad structure and structure will allow you to place more information in a space because your reader’s eye will use the grid to jump form one item to another.

Besides adding structure to your ad, there are some strategic benefits to using the grid.

For example, if you will refer to my Creative Rx, inside on the right-hand page, in figure 1, you can see how in the Mid Oregon Credit Union ad the logo at the bottom loosely lines up with the word “Way” in the headline above. Moreover, notice how the address block at the bottom of the ad aligns to a vertical axis first created by the two faces meeting in the photo, and again echoed in the middle margins of the two columns of body copy. These vertical axes direct the eye to what we want the reader to do: read about the offer at the bottom of the ad and remember the credit union or call or visit a branch.

In addition, notice how I have used the Rule of Thirds in this ad:

  • You have a photo and headline grouping
  • A body copy grouping
  • And a logo, address grouping
  • Finally, notice how the eye is drawn into the ad by the large photo and the unique handwritten treatment of the headline.

To conclude, I hope that by applying the Rule of Thirds, by giving your ad a visual emphasis and by setting up grids inside your ads, you find new ways to increase the amount of information in your ads.

Sunriver Resort Marina SUP Fitness Poster

Here’s a poster I did for Sunriver Resort Marina’s SUP fitness class. Lance Tamashiro was the model for the illustration.

A smaller version was used to promote the class on Facebook and in a Facebook ad.

5/15/11 Update

We made a few copy changes on this poster and printed one large and a few smaller sizes on canvas. We used the online Costco Photo Center. They did an excellent job, just make sure to submit your jpg in CMYK. The new canvas prints are slated to appear in the Resort’s Main Lodge, Woodlands Golf Course  Pro Shop, Sage Springs Spa, Caldera Springs Lake House and possibly the Clubhouse at Crosswater Golf Club.

New layout size in Facebook

“Easier to browse”, OK but what about all those custom tabs our there.

So they warned everyone last October. But what about all us poor newbies. I mean how hard would it be to put a little error checking script in the save function‚ I guess this advance preview is it.

Here’s the message from Facebook:

To make your Page easier to browse, we’re simplifying a couple things: 1. Boxes are going away (including the Boxes tab); 2. All custom tabs will be narrower (520 pixels). This is your chance to preview your Page and make edits as needed before the new layout goes public on August 23. Read full announcement

Here's an example of what this will do to custom tabs.

Facebook Business Page: Email

I’m testing web forms on my Facebook page*. As you know, businesses are not allowed to receive emails when they setup a business page for themselves. One way around this is to use a web form and the Facebook Static FBML application. To see this in action, visit my current Facebook testing tab.

If your business is interested in expanding the effective use of Facebook this should be your first priority‚ add an Email us tab to your Facebook page.

*Whitten Desgin’s Facebook page is a active testing and development arena for our clients‚ branding and image control is what Whitten Design is noted for, here, it is limited to the need to preview and prove applications and results.