Mike Hughes | Overflow production for agencies

Out of hands? I finish the job under your name.

Press-ready files, on your deadline. Your clients never hear from me.

Start with a half day
Two Northeastern Exposure magazine covers side by side. Before: a dark cover with a red truck. After: a white cover with a race car driver.
Based in
Hagerstown, MD
Hours
Eastern time, remote
Rate
Day $750 · Half day $450
Next open day
Ask me

What I take

Print and documents

  • Press-ready files
  • Long documents
  • Templates your team can use
  • Prepress and file cleanup

Tools InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Word and Google Docs.

Web, built to your designs

React and Next.js, or HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You send the comps. I build them.

AI I design and direct. The code is written with Claude, an AI, and I check every page.

My promise

  1. Your clients stay yours.

  2. I sign your NDA.

  3. I never contact your clients.

  4. Files go out under your name.

  5. If a client needs something you don't offer, I only take it with your OK.

    I pay you a referral fee for as long as I work with them.

Work you can check

Two Northeastern Exposure covers. Before, Vol. 19 No. 3: a dark cover with a red truck. After, Vol. 20 No. 3: a white cover with a race car driver.

Magazine template, 2012 to 2020, client work

Northeastern Exposure

I designed the original template, then the redesign of Northeastern Supply's customer magazine. The new template ran 19 issues, Vol. 19 No. 4 in 2012 to Vol. 25 No. 2 in 2020. 8.5 x 11, built in InDesign.

Built so other people can run it: 18 paragraph styles, 15 character styles, 7 object styles and 2 master pages.

Client: Northeastern Supply, via Three Marketiers. InDesign. No AI used.

Template anatomy sheet: a magazine page with labels for the department banner, headline and deck, text columns, pull quote, sidebar, live area, and folio and running foot.

Template anatomy: the parts a production team reuses.

An open Bible Biker study book on a wooden table: two columns of Scripture and commentary on each page.

Books, 2026, family client

Bible Biker study books

Designer and art director for two study books for Bible Biker Ministries, my father's ministry. Print-ready, 8.5 x 11, 108 and 78 pages.

AI The paintings in the books are AI-generated, art directed by me. The table scene in this photo is AI-generated. The pages are the real print PDF.

Code built with Claude Code under my direction.

Confidential work, no pages to show

I built the InDesign template system the whole Sodexo proposal team used.

15 InDesign proposal templates, built or rebuilt, 70 to 200 pages each. Adobe Certified Professional in InDesign.

Inside an agency, 1994 to 2017

Nearly 24 years at Three Marketiers.

Magazines, calendars, line cards, ads and prepress. I know how an agency runs from the inside.

What it costs

  • $750

    Full day

  • $450

    Half day

  • Quoted

    Bigger jobs, priced by the project

Booked by the day when I'm open. Ask and I'll tell you my next open day. Anything I start, I finish.

Start with a half day

Send one small job. $450. You check my files before you trust me with a big one.

Start with a half day
Call or text
240-520-3761
Email
designbymikehughes@gmail.com