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Why Contracting a Graphic Designer for Your Business Is a Benefit

Caroline Fisher

In today’s fast-paced digital world, visual communication plays a crucial role in how businesses connect with customers, convey their brand message, and stand out in a competitive market. Whether you’re a startup or an established business, partnering with a skilled graphic designer can be one of the smartest investments you make. Here’s why:

1. Professional Branding That Builds Trust

First impressions matter. A professional graphic designer ensures your brand visuals — logo, typography, color palette, and overall aesthetic — are cohesive, memorable, and appropriate for your target audience. A well-designed brand builds trust and credibility, making customers more likely to engage with your business.

2. Time and Cost Efficiency

Trying to handle design in-house or DIY-style often leads to lost time and inconsistent results. A graphic designer brings expertise and efficiency to the table, delivering high-quality materials faster and more effectively. Instead of struggling through revisions, you get polished, impactful designs without wasting hours of your own time.

3. Strategic Visual Communication

Graphic designers do more than just “make things look pretty.” They understand how to use visual elements to guide the viewer’s eye, communicate key messages, and evoke the right emotional response. This strategic thinking ensures your marketing materials — from social media posts to brochures — achieve your goals.

4. Consistency Across All Platforms

Your business appears in multiple places — websites, social media, print, email marketing, and more. A designer ensures visual consistency across every touchpoint, reinforcing brand recognition and professionalism. This consistency helps customers instantly identify your business, no matter where they see it.

5. Access to Creative Expertise

Designers are trained problem solvers. They bring a fresh perspective to your business and can help develop unique visual solutions that you may not have considered. Whether you need a rebrand, a promotional campaign, or a sleek new website layout, a designer can elevate your ideas into compelling visuals.

6. Scalability and Flexibility

By contracting a graphic designer — whether freelance or through an agency — you get the flexibility to scale your design needs up or down based on your project pipeline. You avoid the overhead of hiring a full-time employee while still getting expert support when you need it.

7. Stand Out From the Competition

In a saturated market, design can be the difference between blending in and standing out. A great graphic designer knows how to highlight what makes your business unique and express that visually in a way that attracts attention and leaves a lasting impression.

Final Thoughts

Contracting a graphic designer is more than just outsourcing a task — it’s investing in your brand’s future. With the right design partner, you gain more than visuals; you gain a competitive edge. Whether you’re launching a new business or refreshing your image, a skilled designer can turn your vision into visuals that speak volumes.

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PMS#??? What?? Pantone Color of the Year 2019

Caroline Fisher
Pantone Color of the Year 2019: Living Coral PMS#16-1546

Pantone Color of the Year 2019: Living Coral PMS#16-1546

Pantone has announced the Pantone Color of the Year 2019: Living Coral PMS#16-1546. In the design world, we also refer to this as a PMS#, my clients always have a good laugh when they hear this term for the first time. PMS stands for Pantone Matching System, You are now wondering what is the big deal about Pantone?

As a graphic designer we use the Pantone Matching System when designing a logo, we choose colors from the Pantone book. What makes this system perfect is when I give my printer the PMS#, he will have the PERFECT matched ink to use that matches the Pantone color that was designed for the logo. Pantone has different color systems for many applications such as printing for paper products, silk-screening onto garments, textiles, cosmetics, plastic and much more. When it comes to consistent branding for your company, its important that the colors in your logo are consistent from your business cards, to your promotional products to your logoed ball caps. Pantone has created this universal language in color that is interpreted to consistent branding.

“I believe Pantone Color of the Year sets the tone for the year and opens up the creative world to a fresh new look.”

This is always an exciting time for all of us designers, this color is the trending color. You will see this color on everything from fashion, interior design, kitchen products, paints, electronics, and the list goes on and on. These colors are always an announcement of what the up and coming trends are coming for the year. As a designer, we love this!!! We start infusing these colors into our designs and products. I believe it sets the tone for the year and opens up the creative world to a fresh new look.

“The power of color bring us back to a good time in our lives, brings feelings and emotions that we may have forgotten. ”

Why is the Pantone Color of the Year so important? It changes the look in the stores we walk into, it influences the products that we purchase. It changes the feeling in our homes to whisper a fresh change of hope, creating a new pallet in our lives. Looking back at previous years of the Pantone Color of the Year, it stirs reminisce memories of fondness to a favorite purse or garment. The color brings us back to a good time in our lives, brings feelings and emotions that we may have forgotten. Here is a look back to previous colors:

Pantone Colors of years past

As I look over these past colors, they bring back memories of important events in my life. Some of the years reflect more than others of what was going on in our world around us. The power of color can never be underestimated, it makes our lives a lot more colorful.