Turn Vision into Visuals with Art Direction Services from Experts

Art direction and design are key strategic steps in defining the visual language of a digital product. It creates a communicative experience through design, which tells your story to your audience by putting all brand elements together. From design principles to visual guidelines and creative concepts, we enable you to develop a cohesive and impactful user experience across all your brand mediums.

Why’s Art Direction Important?

Whether you’re defining your brand’s visual identity or your digital products, it should showcase a design language that compels your audience. A cohesive, strategically developed visual identity ensures you stand out in a competitive market and stay true to your vision to build an emotional connection with users.

Our art direction services further enable you:

Who We Work With

Our branding and art direction services are built for teams and founders considering key design decisions, whether you’re building a brand from scratch or rethinking your existing visual identity.

1) Startups:

To build or refine their distinct visuals.

2) Agencies:

That require strategic input to define creative direction for their clients.

3) Enterprises:

Requiring a modernization of their legacy visuals.

4) E-commerce Platforms:

For improved product presentation and a better user interface.

What Art Direction Services Include at Designist

Our visual direction services are structured to cover the full spectrum of art direction and design, from big-picture brand thinking to actionable design frameworks.

Here’s what we deliver:

Visual Strategy & Research:

We audit your existing visuals, analyze competitors, and identify visuals your audience already responds to.

Moodboards & Conceptual Directions:

We then ideate and present creative directions that fit your brand tone and personality.

Design Language System:

Including typography, layout, color, and photography; this is where we build your distinctive design framework.

Creative Guidelines & Toolkit:

We compile everything into a handbook to apply your brand style consistently.

How It Works

Our creative direction process is strategic and collaborative, whether you’re a startup or a legacy brand looking for reinvention.

1) Creative Discovery:

We start by understanding your brand’s goals, audience, culture, and what emotional tone you want your visuals to carry.

2) Moodboarding:

We curate visual inspiration that reflects your brand’s identity. This phase defines the foundation for your design language.

3) Visual Language Development:

We translate our moodboards into clear design guidelines tailored to how your brand communicates across platforms.

4) Creative Supervision & Feedback Loops:

We stay hands-on during this phase to make sure your team’s execution aligns with our creative direction.

5) Final Delivery:

We hand off documentation and assets that empower your internal or external teams with clarity and consistency.

Why Designist?

We’re not just another art direction studio, we’re your visual strategy partners. Here’s what sets us apart:

Strategic Process:

Every visual decision adds up to your brand’s mission, user psychology, and long-term goals.

Complete Team Support:

Our art directors, UI/UX designers, and graphic designers work hand-in-hand with your team to deliver the desired results.

Brand Language Development:

From logos to UI designs, we ensure each element builds a distinct visual language for your brand.

Big Picture Oriented Designs:

With designs that are cohesive and communicate a story to your users.

Key Deliverables

With our art direction services, we deliver:

Visual Guidelines Document:

A comprehensive guide covering visual principles, color themes, imagery, etc.

Concept Art and Moodboards:

Visual inspiration and basis for future design direction.

Optional Add-Ons:

Including templates or asset libraries, based on your requirements.

Briefing Workshops:

To bring your teams to the same page for future execution.

Flexible Pricing for Every Need

Our pricing model adapts to your project’s complexity, scope, and scale of creative involvement.

Testimonials

“The usability testing uncovered key friction points we hadn’t even considered. After implementing the recommendations, our user satisfaction scores and conversions improved significantly!”
-[Client Name], Product Manager at [Company-Name]

Let’s Make Your Brand Visuals Stand Out

Whether you’re launching, scaling, or reinventing, we’ll turn your brand vision into an actionable and impactful design direction.

How Art Direction has impacted clients

Husaini Blood Bank

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e.ocean

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Taraki

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Payfast

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Abhi Finance

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Safe Pay

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