Creative
Department
Retainer Your design team, without the overhead of hiring one. A dedicated allocation of senior design talent, embedded in your business and available as your needs evolve.
What It Is
Creative Department is HS108's flagship retainer program. It gives businesses consistent, high-quality design support without the cost and complexity of building an in-house team.
Instead of briefing a studio project-by-project — waiting for quotes, negotiating scope, onboarding teams repeatedly — Creative Department clients get a dedicated design function that knows their brand, their product, and their goals.
It's the model that makes sense when design is not a one-off need but an ongoing engine of your business.
What's Included
Dedicated Design Team
Senior designers allocated to your account — no juniors, no generalists.
Monthly Design Sprints
Structured cycles of briefing, design, and review. Predictable, fast, repeatable.
All Four Practices
Access to WebCanvas, CX&Identity, CMF_Nexus, and Lumina.raw under one retainer.
Async Collaboration
No time zone friction. We work in your tools, on your schedule.
Quarterly Strategy Reviews
We step back from the work every quarter to align on direction, priorities, and goals.
Unlimited Requests
Raise design needs as they come. No scope debates, no change orders for small asks.
Who It's For
- → Companies with ongoing, evolving design needs
- → Brands that want embedded design — not freelancers
- → Teams that have shipped product and need design to keep pace with growth
- → Businesses replacing or augmenting an internal design function
Ready to talk?
Creative Department engagements are scoped to each client. Tell us where you are and what you need — we'll put together the right structure.
The Creative Department Difference
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Interested in our project-based services?
Creative Department is our retainer model. For one-time projects, explore our full service offering.