PenjiReviews of penji.co

Very good and reliable service!

I've been with Penji for 18 months now purely for Merch by Amazon t-shirt designs. It’s very easy and straightforward to queue up design ideas and the designers are great at creating design layouts, color schemes, and picking out graphics based on your specifications. It helps to give them reference material if you have a specific design layout in mind. I’m often delighted when the designer adds a cute touch to the design. As an example I had a design about waking up in Costa Rica that featured a sloth graphic. The designer chose a sleeping sloth graphic even though I didn’t specify the sloth should be sleeping. I thought that was very clever and I’m glad they added that. The need for revisions have been quite minimal and it’s often because I come up with a new idea after seeing the design for the first time. Sometimes there can be confusion with design instructions if I have a series of designs that follow the same layout, but then I add a new design to the series with a slightly changed layout. An understandable mistake, which I’ve learned to prevent by using bold/highlighted text, and repeating in the design brief very clearly: “there is a layout change on this design, please see bold text for layout change.” Overall my Merch designs have come out profitable with certain ideas rising up above others. It’s easy to duplicate designs in Penji to return to profitable design and create new variations. If you want multiple color schemes on a design you can also revisit it and request they create a version for light and dark colored shirts or you can request multiple color schemes if you’re unsure what will look best. I like using coolors to come up with a color scheme or asking the design to come up with a color scheme based on a colorful stock photo from on unsplash. Great experience that I’d recommend to other Merch by Amazon sellers. I’ve yet to try phone and popsocket designs but I’m thinking of trying those out in the future.

Penji did a great job working highly-custom illustrations for my company. They are extremely professional and I highly recommend the company

For a growing startup, Penji is a great option to have. There is a wide variety of projects that they can design. From landing pages, banners, slide presentations, and more -- They do it all. And for the reasonable price, the work is very good. A great feature that they have is the revision tool. Here, you can check out a piece of work that they did and make changes, revisions, and recommendations on the design. It's user-friendly and make lots of sense, especially when you're working on a group task. Overall, Penji can take the place of a graphic designer, or it can be a supplement to your team. Overall, we used them for big projects and everyday routine banner work. Highly recommended.

They make you want to get out of bed early every day like a kid on Christmas. It is exciting to see the new versions of your visions coming to life. The only way I know that is a weekend when I wake up is that there isn't a new Penji design to review. 🙂

We've worked with Penji for a few years before bringing on our own designers in house. Penji was easy to use, with quick matches and turnaround. They were always courteous and professional. Positive experience all around and highly recommend!

Our organization was very fortunate to be selected to participate in the Penji for Nonprofits program, which provided us with 3 months of their team plan for $1/month. We asked their team to create a cover illustration for our online course called a Mind-Hacker's Toolkit to Calm Anxiety. What they created is a beautiful work of art. Here are what I see as the strengths of Penji: 1. designers are responsive and enthusiastic. 2. illustrators are talented. 3. Turnaround for iterations is relatively quick. In case it is helpful, here are a few things I learned about working with Penji: 1. All communication with the designers takes place in writing through their portal. We did not have any live calls or chats with anyone on their team. 2. It's best to have someone on your side who can serve as a creative or artistic director work with their team and give them very specific instructions on what you are looking for. 3. multiple rounds of feedback and iterations are often required to get to a final image that you can publish. 4. the main person assigned to your project changes over time (the hand-offs seem to be based on people's specializations.)

I have been impressed with the quality, consistency and range of work offered but most of all the speed at which Penji has delivered. Great work.