[linh]

Would you mind giving us a bit more details? What kind of designs? Logo? Website? Poster? What is your budget? What do you want to accomplish?

You can find local designers through websites such as dribbble.com, behance.net, craigslist.com, and many more.

[smattiso]

I'm looking for a logo and a landing page. I was hoping to find somewhere to vet designers and find price quotes and whatnot. Someone to work with in a more iterative fashion than perhaps 99Designs.

[linh]

You seem like you know what you want. =) Anyway from my experience 99designs is usually cheaper but the quality of work is subpar. If you are someone who is really picky about quality, originality, etc I would say away from them. That being said, a good designer will probably cost around 1,000 USD for a logo. That probably includes 3 original concepts and a few revisions (depends on the designer). As for the landing page...why not just use something like launchrock.com?

[smattiso]

Sorry landing page was a red herring. I'm slapping that together now but I need an actual homepage and conversion page. Thanks for the tips I really appreciate it! I've already found some good people using behance.net.

[linh]

Can't really tell you how much an actual homepage might cost because there are too many factors. It is a one page website? Do you need front-end development with it? etc.

I do want to give you a word of caution, sometimes after paying 1,000 USD for a logo, you might not get exactly what you imagine or want. The best way to approach it is have a good idea of what you want or better yet know exactly what you want. For instance: I want a cute panda mascot that's chewing on bamboo would be much better than "we are a social networking website that wants a clean and minimalistic blue logo." The latter is so vague.