ONGOING CREATIVE SUPPORT FOR BRANDS THAT EXPECT MORE
DESIGN RETAINER SERVICES
Ongoing graphic design support for brands, marketing teams, and agencies that need
consistent creative without the overhead of building an in-house design team.
Work directly with an experienced creative partner who understands your brand and keeps your
design moving.
14+ Years of Creative Leadership
WHAT IS A DESIGN
RETAINER?
A design retainer is an ongoing creative partnership that gives your brand consistent access to professional design support.
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Instead of starting from scratch with a new designer for every project, you work with a creative partner who already understands your brand, your visual language, and your standards.
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From campaign assets and marketing collateral to presentations, digital graphics, print materials, and brand refinements, ongoing design support helps keep your creative work consistent and moving forward.
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For brands with recurring design needs, a retainer provides continuity without requiring a full-time in-house designer.
DEFINITION
WHY BRANDS USE DESIGN RETAINERS
WHY BRANDS BRING IN ONGOING DESIGN SUPPORT
Your design needs don't arrive one project at a time.
Campaigns launch. Presentations change. Marketing materials need updating. New opportunities appear. And your brand still needs to look consistent through all of it.
More Creative Momentum
Consistent Brand Execution
Priority Creative Support
Flexible Capacity
No In-House Overhead
One Creative Partner
SIGNS YOU NEED DESIGN SUPPOR
SIGNS YOUR BRAND NEEDS ONGOING DESIGN SUPPORT
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Your marketing team has more design requests than it can handle.
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Campaigns are moving faster than your internal creative resources.
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Your team keeps outsourcing one-off projects to different designers.
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Brand consistency becomes difficult across campaigns and channels.
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Presentations, collateral, social assets, and digital materials keep piling up.
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You need experienced design support but don't need another full-time employee.
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Your creative team needs additional capacity during launches or busy periods.
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Your team wants a creative partner who already understands your brand.
If design has become a recurring business need, an ongoing creative partnership may make more sense than another one-off project.
WHAT THE RETAINER COVERS
WHAT YOUR DESIGN RETAINER CAN SUPPORT
Our team supports agencies across every stage of the creative process.
Campaign Creative
Campaign concepts, launch graphics, advertising assets, promotional materials, and visual systems.
Marketing Collateral
Brochures, flyers, sales materials, lookbooks, invitations, menus, and branded communications.
Digital Design
Social graphics, digital ads, website visuals, email graphics, landing-page assets, and display creative.
Presentation & Pitch
High-impact presentations, pitch decks, sales decks, and branded presentation systems.
Brand Support
Brand extensions, visual refinements, templates, marketing assets, and ongoing brand applications.
Print & Production
Print-ready artwork, event materials, signage, editorial pieces, packaging, and production support.
THREE WAYS AGENCIES USE OUR DESIGN SUPPORT
1.Ongoing Design Support
Keep recurring creative requests moving with an established design partner who understands your brand.
2. Monthly Creative Capacity
Bring consistent design needs into an ongoing workflow instead of commissioning separate projects every time.
3. Embedded Creative Direction
Add experienced creative thinking to campaigns, launches, brand initiatives, and high-priority projects.
DESIGN SUPPORT VS HIRING VS FREELANCE
THE PROCESS
HOW OUR DESIGN SUPPORT WORKS
Discovery
We start by understanding your brand, creative priorities, recurring design needs, upcoming campaigns, and where your team needs additional support.
Alignment
We establish the scope, priorities, workflow, and structure for your ongoing creative partnership.
Production
Your design requests move through the creative process with your existing brand direction and standards already in context.
Review & Refine
We review the work, make refinements where needed, and ensure every asset feels connected to the larger brand.
Deliver
Final creative is prepared for its intended application—digital, print, campaign, presentation, event, or other marketing use.
THE DIFFERENCE
WHY AGENCIES CHOOSE SCHWEITZER DESIGNS AS THEIR DESIGN PARTNER
Fourteen years of senior creative leadership
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Your work is handled by an experienced creative lead, not passed to a junior production designer with a template. That difference shows up in the first round, not the fourth.
Brand-side experience that transfers
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Our creative work includes Audi, Ferrari, Volkswagen, 1 Hotels and Aspen Snowmass. Agencies bring us in specifically when a client expects that standard and the internal team is stretched.
A limited number of partners
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We intentionally cap how many agencies we support at once. It's the only way to stay genuinely responsive when a partner calls on a Tuesday needing something by Thursday.
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Complete confidentiality
NDA-friendly, unbranded delivery, no case study or portfolio use without your written permission. Your client stays your client.
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