Trade only · Sign, wrap and print shops

Add a designer without adding payroll

Trade-only graphic design for sign, wrap and print shops. An outside design desk that works like your in-house team: customer-ready proofs, layered production files and permit drawings, back within 48 business hours. No contracts, quoted before you pay.

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Plans from $329 a month Quick Jobs $20 per job, no plan Monday through Friday, US Eastern

What we do, in 100 seconds: the email, the ticket, the proof, the files.

The behind-the-scenes design partner

Take on more work without hiring

Most shops do not lose jobs at the plotter. They lose them in the design queue, when the proof the customer needs to say yes is three days late. We clear that queue.

Lower cost

Pay for design hours in 5-minute blocks. No salary, benefits, software seats or idle Fridays.

More capability

Renders, permit packages and wayfinding programs you could not staff for before.

New markets

Quote the franchise rollout and the multi-tenant pylon with the same three-person crew.

One account desk

One contact for scope, status and revisions. We manage the designers so you do not have to.

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Core services

From the sales mockup to the file your fabricator runs

1

Creative presentations

The sign on the customer's actual building, day and night, with three options and your logo on the sheet. The proof that closes the sale.

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2

Permit drawings

Elevations, scaled sign faces and mounting callouts, drawn to the code package you supply so your engineer and the reviewer can work from them.

Permit drawings →
3

Pre-production files

Layered, editable AI and EPS with cut paths separated, dimensions called out and colors specified. Your production team does the machine setup. We do everything before it.

Pre-production files →
Two ways to work with us

By the job, or on a plan

Quick Jobs

Counter-service work, done fast. Yard signs, banners, A-frame inserts, real estate signs, decals, vinyl lettering, and the logo your customer emailed as a JPEG. $20 per job under an hour of design time. No subscription, no account. For shops whose volume swings week to week, or who want the desk without a plan.

  • Own queue, within 48 business hours
  • Quoted and approved before work starts
  • Over an hour, $10 per 30 minutes, quoted first
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Coverage plans

Lite, Starter, Pro and Dedicated, from 20 hours a month to a named designer 40 hours a week. For ongoing volume and multi-location programs.

  • Plans from $329 a month, additional hours $20/hr
  • Upgrade today, downgrade at the end of the cycle
  • Enterprise and multi-unit pricing after a call
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Quick Jobs

Counter-service jobs, back before the customer calls to ask.

Yard signs, banners, A-frame inserts, real estate signs, decals, vinyl lettering. The quick work that clogs your designer's queue runs in its own queue at ours, worked the same business day it is approved. Within 48 business hours, most land sooner. And yes, the JPEG logo too: $15, $30 or $45 to redraw it.

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Why Trade Desk Graphics

What you get that a job board does not

No payroll overhead

A design department on a monthly line item instead of a W-2.

Flexible terms

Month to month on every plan. No notice period. Cancel at the end of the cycle.

Trade-trained designers

Trained on substrates, sheet sizes, illumination, cut paths and install realities.

48 business hours

A delivery promise we can keep. Rush quoted per job when you need it faster.

Independent sign shops
Sign and print franchises
Wrap and fleet graphics shops
Print shops and large format
Electrical sign manufacturers
Screen print and embroidery
Promo product distributors
Sign installers
A real job

The customer sent a photo of a wrap they liked. The shop needed the art.

AI-generated concept art of a wrapped Ford Flex
Before · AI-generated concept art of a wrap on a Ford Flex. Looks great, but it is a flat picture: no layers, no vectors, nothing a printer can use.
Vector wrap artwork rebuilt on the vehicle template
After · The concept turned into usable art: redrawn as clean vectors on the correct Flex template, panel by panel, ready for the shop's printer.

A job sent in for our Complex Vectorization service. 48 business hours guaranteed, delivered in 36.

Articles

From the sign shop knowledge base

Practical pieces on production files, permits, designer costs and winning jobs on design instead of price. First articles publish November 2026.

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Illustration of a designer at a remote workstation
About us

Built by sign people, for sign shops

Our partners bring more than 15 years across sales, operations, design and signage, and heard the same complaint from shop owners every week: the artwork is late, the designer is buried, the customer is waiting on a proof. We built Trade Desk Graphics to clear that bottleneck for sign and graphic shops across the US, and we only sell to the trade.

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Stand out with sign designs that sell and build.

From sales decks to pre-production files, at flat rates your shop can quote against. Pick a plan or send a single job today.

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