printmediadesigning.com

Creative studio

Creative & Design Agency in Navi Mumbai

A working studio rather than a presentation studio - concept, art direction, artwork and photography, with the press downstairs to prove it.

  • Since 2006
  • In-house photography
  • Artwork to press
  • No minimum
Creative studio

The gap between a design and an artwork

Plenty of studios can produce a handsome layout. Far fewer will produce a file that goes to press without an argument - correct bleed, resolved images at final size, fonts outlined, statutory panels intact, die-lines on their own layer, and colour built in the space the job will actually be printed in.

That gap is where most print problems start, and it is invisible until the sheets come off the press. Because our artwork goes to our own press, there is nowhere for it to hide: a file that is wrong comes straight back to the person who made it.

It is an unglamorous discipline and it is most of why repeat clients stay.

Creative studio

What the studio does

Campaign creative and key visuals. Packaging and label design, including regulated categories where the layout has to work around fixed content. Catalogues and company profiles, which are the hardest print jobs to do well because they are long, structured and full of other people's content. Point-of-sale and dealer material. Presentations, reports and stationery.

Plus product photography and packshots, shot here, so a catalogue, a leaflet and a dangler all use the same image rather than three versions of it at three different colour temperatures.

The studio also does the unglamorous middle work: retouching, versioning across languages and sizes, and keeping an artwork family consistent over years of small changes.

Creative studio

Working with an in-house marketing team

Most of our clients have their own marketing people. The studio is used as capacity and as a production backbone rather than as a replacement - concepts sometimes come from us, sometimes from them, and the artwork, versioning and production always run through here.

That works because the handover is clean: files, guidelines and source artwork belong to the client and are handed over on request. Nothing is held to protect the reprint.

It also means we are comfortable working inside an existing brand book rather than pushing to redesign everything first.

What we produce

What this covers

Campaign creative

Concept, key visual and the adaptations that follow, art-directed as one set.

No minimum

Packaging & label design

Pack ranges and regulated labels designed around fixed statutory content.

Print-tested

Catalogues & profiles

Long, structured documents built to be navigated rather than waded through.

Bulk print

Product photography

Packshots and product photography in-house, so every piece uses one image set.

In-house studio

Artwork & pre-press

Print-ready files: bleed, resolution, outlined type, die-lines and correct colour build.

Every job

Versioning

The same artwork family across languages, sizes and regions, kept consistent over time.

Per campaign

How it runs

From brief to delivery

  1. 1

    Brief and reference

    What it is for, who reads it, and what already exists - including a physical sample of the last version.

  2. 2

    Concept and direction

    Presented with reasoning, not as a menu of three options to pick from.

  3. 3

    Artwork and proof

    Print-ready artwork, digital proof, and a dummy for anything folded or die-cut.

  4. 4

    To press, or to you

    Straight onto our press, or handed over as files if you are printing elsewhere.

Questions

Common questions

Can you design something we will print elsewhere?

Yes. You get print-ready files and the working artwork. We would rather do the job properly than only design what we print.

Do you do product photography?

Yes, in-house - packshots and product photography, so a whole campaign shares one image set.

Can you work inside our existing brand guidelines?

Yes, and most of our work is exactly that.

What file formats do you need from us?

Print-ready PDF is ideal - CMYK, fonts outlined or embedded, 3 mm bleed, 300 dpi at final size. CorelDRAW and Illustrator files are fine too.

Do you charge for concepts?

Creative work is quoted as a scope before it starts. What that includes is written down rather than assumed on either side.

Is there a minimum project size?

No minimum on design and creative. Printing is bulk and wholesale only.

Tell us the job and the quantity

Bulk quotes come back within 24 working hours, priced for your run and the next slab up. Campaign briefs get a call first.

Get a quotePrinting: bulk and wholesale quantities. Advertising and design: no minimum.