About the studio
A small studio for businesses that cannot afford to look small.
DCreatives started in 2021 taking poster jobs for neighbours. Five years and forty-one projects later, the work is the same in spirit: give a small business artwork that holds up next to a franchise across the street.
How it started
The first paid job was a tarpaulin for a fun run, priced at four hundred pesos because that was what the organiser had. It printed badly — the file was too small and nobody had told us to ask about resolution. We paid for the reprint and learned the lesson that still runs the studio: the design is not finished until it survives the printer.
Word moved through the same street, then the next barangay. Menus, logos, uniforms, then app screens when a client asked whether we could design software too. We could, so we learned to do it properly.
What we believe
Prices should be public. A small business owner should be able to find out what a poster costs without opening a chat and waiting for “PM sent po”. Every rate we charge is on the pricelist, including the ones that are ranges, and the ranges are explained.
And the files belong to you. On full payment you get the vectors and the source, not a flattened JPG that traps you into coming back to us for every edit.
41
projects delivered
2021
first paid job, a fun run tarpaulin
2–3 days
to a first concept, typical
How we work
Four steps, the same on a five hundred peso post and a twelve thousand peso retainer.
Step 01
Brief
Message us on Facebook or email. Send what it is for, the deadline and any references you like.
Step 02
Concept
First direction in two to three days, with the reasoning written out plainly so you can argue with it.
Step 03
Revisions
Two rounds are included. Change copy, colour, layout — we keep going until it fits.
Step 04
Final files
Print-ready PDFs, web exports and source files. Released on full payment, yours to keep.
Tools we use
Photo work
Adobe Photoshop
Retouching, compositing and preparing supplied photos for print.
Vector and logos
Adobe Illustrator
Marks are drawn as vectors, so they scale from a favicon to a facade.
Video
Adobe Premiere Pro
Edit, captions and colour. Delivered as MP4, one cut per platform.
UI and screens
Figma
Handed over as a layered file your developer can inspect directly.
Research and copy
Claude AI
Drafting and sharpening copy. Every line is reviewed before it ships.
Why pick a small studio over an agency
You talk to the designer
No account manager relaying your notes. The person who draws it is the person reading your message.
Prices you can check
Everything is on the pricelist. No discovery call before you find out whether you can afford a poster.
Small jobs are welcome
A ₱350 story design is a real job here, not a favour squeezed between retainers.
Where an agency wins: a national campaign, a thirty-store rollout, media buying. If that is what you need, we will tell you so instead of stretching to take the job.
Start with a conversation, not a contract.
Tell us what the business is and what you need made. We will say what it takes and what it costs.