Design Services, Installation fees, Etc.

Sign design service includes basic computer based drawings or hand sketches for review purposes only.  All preliminary drawings remain the property of Adventure Signs & Graphics until they are purchased.  See Copyrights below.

A basic design is a clean, simple design for a typical owner-operated small business, where the design is used on the primary sign, one or two vehicles and in limited print advertising.  A complex design would be much more involved and consequently require much more time to design and more concept drawings produced.  The level of design work needed for any given project would be determined at an initial meeting or phone conversation and is done at no charge.

Basic shop labor / design service rate is $75 per hour.

The following is intended as a guide to give you a typical cost for design services.  This pricing is not intended to be a firm price since graphic arts services are based on an hourly rate.

Sign Design service:

Basic Design:  Create layout and one alternative drawing  -  $90 - $150

Intermediate Design:  More complex layout & multiple samples  -  $150 - $250

Complex Design:  More than two drawings and meetings  -  $250 - $350

Logo Design:

Basic Design:  Two versions, two meetings  -  $350 +/-

Complex Design:  Two versions, two meetings  -  $675 +/-

A word about logos.  Logos are the image of your business.  Logos cost more to design because more time is spent on them considering many factors and the importance of them to your business.  Additional time is spent with you to determine the "personality" of your business and the goal is for a logo design to reflect that personality.  As an example, the Adventure Signs logo at the bottom of this page would be considered a complex design.  On the high end of logo design, is complete corporate identity packages which typically start in the thousands.

Independent Artists:

On many occations, Adventure Signs employs independent contract artists for design work.  This is usually done for the more complex projects and it involves artists of great skill.  The price for the artwork done by these independant artists is determined by them and is normally billed separatly from them.

Copyrights:

All preliminay drawings and final designs are the property of Adventure Signs & Graphics until purchased by the customer.  Purchase of a finished sign does not include the right to use a design elsewhere or have another sign shop or printer use the design in or on other products.  The customer may purchase the design for unlimited use at any time with the price to be negotiated with Adventure Signs & Graphics.

Customer Provided file (artwork)

Open a usable file and prep for sign use  -  $30

Convert file to a usable format and prep for sign use  -  $75

Scan and digitize an existing clean design  -  $75

Create electronic version without clean art to start with  -  $175

     Please review the Artwork Requirements page for guidelines on preparing your artwork.  The better prepared the file, the less preparation required at our end.

Sign Installation

On site sign installation is billed per hour/per installer at a rate of $85 plus materials.  Installation time will include travel time to and from our location.  Any installation job requireing specialized equipment such as lifts will be billed additional. these charges will be determined by an inspection of the site.  If site inspection is needed before installation can be accomplished, a fee of $95 plus milage applies.  Installation of vehicle graphics is normally done at our shop.

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