Founder

Hassan Rehman

I prepare artwork for print, and I have done it for trade print shops since 2012. I run HSH Design, which is the studio; HSH Prints, an Australian print desk; and Proof System, the software that gets a proof approved on the customer's phone.

Last updated 7 October 2026 HSH Design

2,700+

client businesses

Distinct client folders across the trade-print archives, with names merged where the same business appears twice. 2,778 counted.

1,600+

numbered print jobs

Distinct job numbers from one archive, 2016 to 2021. The numbers climb steadily with the dates, as a real job series does. 1,634 counted. A floor: most client folders carry no job numbers.

14,000+

layered artwork files

Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, EPS and CorelDRAW files. A job with three versions counts three times. 14,531 counted.

40,000+

print-ready PDFs and proofs

PDF files inside client folders. 43,212 counted.

New client businesses each year

* Counted to 7 October 2026, so still filling. The year a client folder's first artwork file was last saved; two archives summed, within a few dozen a year.

What I do

I take artwork from "the customer sent a file" to "the press can run it": the right size, bleed and trim, CMYK, outlined type, a resolution that holds at the finished size, and a proof the customer has actually approved. For a trade print shop that is the difference between a clean run and a reprint.

The same discipline runs through everything I run: a design studio that builds brands and keeps them consistent, a print desk that quotes the same day, and software that records who approved what.

How these were counted, and what they do not cover

These are counts of my own working files, taken on 7 October 2026 from the archives of the trade print shops I have prepared artwork for. Nothing was estimated and nothing is rounded up: the figure in large type is the counted figure, rounded down.

Dates are the last time a file was saved, which is the one date a copied archive cannot overwrite. They run without a gap from 2014 to now.
Before 2014 the archive is thin: 115 files dated 2012 and 2013, from eight clients. Trade work began earlier than the records show; the counts above do not claim it.
Files are not jobs. A job usually has dozens of files. Only one archive numbers its jobs, so only that archive gets a job count, and it is a minimum.
No shop and no client is named, because I have chosen not to name the shops I have worked for. Everything here is a count of my own working files.

The three businesses

HSH Design

The studio: brand identity, print design, social media and press-ready artwork. The portfolio is eighteen clients with their work shown whole, and the free tools are the prepress checks I run myself.

HSH Prints and Signages

An Australian print desk: business cards, flyers, banners, signs and vehicle decals, produced on trade presses in NSW, QLD and VIC and quoted the same day. hshprints.com.au

Proof System

Software for the part of print that goes wrong most: the approval. The customer marks the proof up on their phone, pinned to the exact spot, and approves it. How proofing works.

Get in touch

If you run a print shop and your customers send you files that need work, or you need artwork prepared properly, write to hello@hshdesign.com or find me on LinkedIn.

Have artwork that needs to print right?

Send me the file and what it is for.

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