Hire Freelance Graphic Designers
Experienced graphic designers matched to your business in around 7 days. Houston & Ko sources freelance and remote design talent globally, all under one Swiss contract, with hourly rates or packages built to flex with your needs.
Find a freelance graphic designer who makes all your marketing look like one brand
From a single social post to a full campaign rollout, we match Swiss and EU businesses with experienced freelance graphic designers, on hourly rates or packages, sourced from around the globe. Every graphic designer works remotely, follows your brand guidelines and is covered by a single Swiss contract from day one.
Marketing collateral
Brochures, flyers, one-pagers and sales sheets that explain what you do and look the part in a client meeting.
Social media graphics
Post templates, carousels, stories and banners for LinkedIn, Instagram and other channels, consistent from one week to the next.
Digital ads & banners
Display, social and search ad creatives in every size your campaigns need, ready to test and swap.
Presentations & pitch decks
PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides templates and sales or investor decks that are clear, on brand and easy for your team to reuse.
Print & packaging
Print-ready files for business cards, signage, labels, packaging and event materials, set up correctly for your printer.
Brand guidelines & templates
Brand guides, colour and type rules and editable templates that let your team produce on-brand material without a designer every time.
Infographics & reports
Annual reports, infographics and data visualisations that turn complex information into something people actually read.
Website & email graphics
Hero images, icons, landing page visuals and newsletter templates that keep your digital channels consistent with your print.
Event & campaign design
Complete visual kits for a product launch, trade fair or conference, from the invitation to the stand to the follow-up email.
What does a freelance graphic designer do?
A freelance graphic designer creates the visual material a business uses to communicate: social posts, ads, brochures, presentations, reports, packaging and everything in between. The job is to take a message and a brand and turn them into designs that are clear, consistent and ready to use, on screen or in print.
Graphic design sits next to several related roles. A brand designer creates the identity itself: the logo, colours and typography. A graphic designer applies that identity to everything the business produces, day after day. A UX designer designs how a website or app works, and our video and motion talent brings the brand to life in moving images. Good design also needs good words, which is where our copywriters come in.
Our graphic designers work remotely, which suits the work well. Briefs, feedback and files all move through shared folders and tools like Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and Canva.
At a glance
Experienced freelance graphic designers for digital and print
Fluent in Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and Canva
Hourly rates or packages, scales with your workload
Fully remote, working to your brand guidelines
Why hire a freelance graphic designer?
Most businesses need a steady flow of design work, but not enough to keep a full-time designer busy every week. So the work ends up with whoever has a free afternoon and a Canva account. The result is familiar: every presentation looks slightly different, social posts drift away from the brand and the sales brochure is three years old because nobody had time to update it.
An experienced graphic designer fixes that. They turn your brand into templates and rules, produce the material you need quickly and make sure everything looks like it comes from the same company. That consistency builds trust, and it saves your team hours of fiddling with layouts.
Graphic design is also one of the clearest cases for freelance support. Demand rises around a launch, a trade fair or a campaign, then drops back to a few hours a week. A freelance graphic designer scales with it.
The benefits of outsourcing graphic design
Outsourcing your graphic design gives you experienced design skills at a fraction of the cost of an in-house hire or an agency retainer, and on exactly the scale your workload needs.
Access to experienced graphic designers from a global talent pool
A consistent brand across every channel and format
Scale up for a launch or campaign, scale back afterwards
Specialists in digital, print or presentations as you need
One simple Swiss contract covers all your support
Hourly rates or packages, no permanent contract needed
Industries we help find freelance graphic designers
From a startup preparing its first pitch deck to an established business running campaigns in several markets, we match businesses with graphic designers who understand their audience and their sector. Every graphic designer we place already knows the formats, standards and expectations of your market.
E-commerce & retail
Product images, banners, promotional graphics and packaging that sell on the page and on the shelf.
Technology & SaaS
Product marketing visuals, pitch decks and social campaigns that make complex software easy to understand.
Professional services & consulting
Proposals, reports and presentations that look as polished as the advice inside them.
Insurance & finance
Annual reports, factsheets and client communications designed for clarity, trust and compliance.
Health & wellness
Patient information, clinic materials and campaigns that are clear, calm and accessible.
Education & training
Course materials, prospectuses and learning visuals that keep students engaged.
Hospitality & tourism
Menus, brochures, signage and social content that make guests want to book.
Real estate
Property brochures, floor plans, listing graphics and signage that help buyers picture the space.
Manufacturing & industrial
Product catalogues, technical datasheets and trade fair materials for complex products.
Food & beverage
Packaging, labels, menus and point-of-sale material that stand out in a crowded market.
Charities & non-profits
Campaign materials, annual reports and fundraising visuals that move people to give.
Startups & scaling businesses
Pitch decks, launch visuals and design templates that make a small team look established.
Marketing & digital agencies
White-label design capacity for client projects, without adding to your fixed costs.
Events & associations
Conference branding, programmes, badges and signage designed and delivered on tight deadlines.
Sole traders & freelancers
Business cards, social templates and simple brand kits for anyone building a presence without agency costs.
Tell us what you need and we’ll match you with an experienced freelance graphic designer, ready to start in around 7 days.
How hiring works
From the first conversation with us to your graphic designer starting, in about a week.
1. Tell us what you need
Share the role, the tasks, and the hours. A quick call is all it takes to get started.
2. We match you with the right talent
We shortlist graphic designers, the top 14% who pass our screening, and present the best fits for you to choose from.
3. Start in around 7 days
Choose your graphic designer and start working, under one simple Swiss contract with us.
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Tell us what you need and we’ll match you with an experienced freelance graphic designer, ready to start in around 7 days.
*A 30-min, no-obligation consultation call.
Freelance graphic designer FAQs
The clearest sign is inconsistency. Your presentations, social posts and brochures all look slightly different, or your team spends hours fighting with layouts instead of doing their actual jobs. Other signs: marketing material is out of date because nobody has time to update it, campaigns launch late while waiting for visuals, or you have a brand guide that nobody follows. If design work keeps landing on people who are not designers, a freelance graphic designer can take it off their desks.
Our graphic designers work on an hourly basis, from CHF 60 to CHF 100 per hour, depending on experience and specialism. Specialist work such as packaging, annual reports or complex print production usually sits at the upper end.
What you spend depends on the workload. A set of social templates is a very different scope to a full campaign across print and digital. No recruitment fees, no upfront costs, one rate, one Swiss invoice. See the full pricing guide on our Pricing page.
Our graphic designers cover the full range of everyday design work, including:
- Brochures, flyers and marketing collateral
- Social media graphics and templates
- Digital ads and banners
- Presentations and pitch decks
- Print, signage and packaging
- Brand guidelines and editable templates
- Infographics and annual reports
- Website and email graphics
- Event and campaign design
Need something specific to your sector or brand? Tell us at briefing and we’ll source for it.
Our graphic designers are self-employed professionals, not employees, but your commercial contract is with Houston & Ko, an established Swiss GmbH, so all of your design support sits under a single, robust Swiss agreement. You deal with us; we handle the legal setup, compliance and invoicing.
As much or as little as you need. Common setups include:
- A one-off project such as a brochure, a pitch deck or a set of templates
- A few hours a week of ongoing social and marketing design
- Full-time support during a launch, a rebrand rollout or a campaign
- Ongoing capacity for agencies and marketing teams
Hourly rates or packages scale up or down at any time, with none of the constraints of a permanent contract or an agency retainer.
Our founders work with you directly to define the role, then match you with candidates from our pre-vetted pool, only the 14% who pass full screening. To get the best fit, be clear on:
- What you need most: digital, print, presentations or all three
- Whether you already have brand guidelines
- The design tools your team uses, such as Adobe, Figma or Canva
- The languages your material needs to be in
- Whether it is a one-off project or ongoing work
See how our process works → Process page.
A portfolio shows the final result. These questions show how they work:
- “Walk me through a project from brief to final files. What changed along the way?”
- “How do you work within someone else’s brand guidelines?”
- “Tell me about a time a client did not like your first draft. What did you do?”
- “How do you set up files so our team can edit them later?”
- “Which print and digital formats are you most comfortable with?”
The second question tells you the most. A graphic designer who respects your brand will save you more time than one who wants to reinvent it.
1. Start with a clear brief. “We need a 12-page brochure for a trade fair in March” leads to the right person. “We need some design help” does not.
2. Share your brand guidelines. Logos, colours, fonts and examples you like. If you do not have guidelines yet, ask your designer to create a simple set first.
3. Match the specialism. A great social media designer is not always the right person for packaging or a 60-page annual report.
4. Ask for editable templates. Templates your team can reuse in Canva or PowerPoint turn one design job into months of consistent material.
5. Work with a specialist recruitment partner. If you want to skip the sourcing and screening, working with Houston & Ko gives you access to pre-vetted freelance graphic designers, placed within 7 days, under a single Swiss contract with no minimum commitment. Contact us today.