Mirza Rizwan: Packaging & Amazon Designer — Services & Pricing
Oct 19, 2026 · 8 min read
This page is me being direct with you. If you're thinking about hiring me, you should know exactly what you get, what it costs, and what I won't do. No "book a discovery call to learn more" fluff. Just the deal.
Who you're actually hiring
One person, not a team of juniors behind a logo. I'm Mirza Rizwan, based in Pakistan and working with sellers in the US, UK and Europe through trendingbar.com. I've spent eight years doing exactly one thing: the visual side of selling on Amazon: listing images, A+ Content, storefronts, packaging, and the brand graphics that hold them together.
My Upwork profile (mirzarizwan3) carries a 100% Job Success score, Rising Talent status, and a 5.0 rating. I've worked across kitchen, beauty, home, supplements, electronics, apparel, pet and lifestyle categories. What that actually means for you: I've already solved the visual problems your category has. The size-doubt problem in kitchen. The trust problem in supplements. The "everything looks identical" problem in apparel. When I audited 50 Amazon listing images this year, I kept seeing the same failures in the same categories. So I know where your listing is probably leaking sales before I even open it.
And the job itself matters more than most sellers think. Amazon recommends at least six images and one video per product, and its own seller guidance puts it bluntly: "Product photos can make or break a sale." That's not a designer talking. That's the marketplace telling you the gallery is a sales asset, not a filing requirement. So the question isn't whether you need design. It's whether you hire someone who treats the gallery like a sales team or someone who just makes it tidy.
What I do: five services, nothing else
I sell five things, the same five listed under services on the homepage, and I say no to everything outside them. That's deliberate. A designer who says yes to every brief specializes in nothing, and Amazon is too specific a battlefield for a generalist. Here's the full menu:
| Service | What you get | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon listing images | The full gallery: compliant main image, infographics, lifestyle, scale shots, detail close-ups. Every slot answers one shopper question. | Sellers launching, relaunching, or watching competitors out-convert them. |
| Amazon A+ Content | Module sets and Brand Story that handle the slow objections the gallery can't: comparisons, materials, the story behind the price. | Brand Registered sellers whose gallery is fine but whose conversion still lags. |
| Amazon storefront design | A branded store that turns a one-product buyer into a catalog browser. | Brands with a range, not a single SKU. |
| Packaging design | Retail-ready packaging: structure, dielines, hierarchy, compliance basics. Built to survive a shelf and a smartphone camera. | Sellers doing their own packaging, retail runs, or subscription boxes. |
| Brand & apparel graphics | Logos, apparel graphics, the visual system that keeps your Amazon store, your packaging and your socials looking like one brand. | Sellers building a brand instead of a listing. |
Notice what's missing: web design, video editing, copywriting agencies, "full-service marketing." I'm not a one-man agency pretending to be twenty people. I'm one specialist who goes deep on the five things Amazon sellers actually need from a designer. If you need the rest, I'll tell you who to hire instead. (That's a real offer, not a line. I'd rather point you right than bill you wrong.)
Why Amazon design isn't regular graphic design
Here's where general designers cost sellers real money: Amazon has its own rules, and they don't care how good your portfolio looks. A brilliant brand designer who's never sold on Amazon will hand you a gorgeous gallery that gets suppressed on day one.
The main image alone has hard compliance rules: pure white background, product filling most of the frame, and Amazon will hide your listing from search if you break them. I've picked up projects where a talented generalist had done beautiful work that was technically unpublishable. Pretty doesn't survive the algorithm. Run any main image against my main image compliance checklist before you fall in love with it.
Then there's the thumbnail problem. Most shoppers meet your product as a 150-pixel square on a phone screen. If your main image doesn't read at that size: product too small, busy background, text nobody can read, and the click never happens and nothing else in the gallery matters. That's a design decision, not a photography decision, and it's the first one I make on every project.
So when you're hiring, the portfolio question isn't "is this beautiful." It's "has this person sold on Amazon." Eight years of Amazon-only work is the whole pitch on this page. Nothing else I do competes with it for my attention.
How pricing actually works: the honest version
There's no price list on this page, and that's on purpose. Anyone publishing one fixed price for "Amazon listing design" is averaging your project into someone else's. A seven-image set for a simple kitchen tool and a seven-image set for a supplement with three variants, compliance constraints and lifestyle scenes are not the same job. They shouldn't cost the same.
So here's my process instead:
- Free audit first. Send me your listing through the contact page and within 48 hours I'll tell you the three concrete things I'd fix. No charge, no pitch deck. If your gallery is already strong, I'll say so. I've talked sellers out of hiring me before, and I'll do it again.
- Fixed quote, in writing. After the audit, you get a scope, a price and a delivery date. The price doesn't move unless the scope does. No hourly meter running while you wonder what's happening.
- Transparent floors. On Upwork my hourly rate is public (mirzarizwan3). Direct projects through trendingbar.com are quoted per project, which usually works out better for you than hourly: you're buying the outcome, not the clock.
What actually moves the number? Five things: how many slots the gallery needs, how complex the product is (parts, variants, assembly), whether you supply the copy or I write it from your bullet points, how fast you need it, and how many revision rounds you want. That's it. No "strategy fee," no mystery line items. If you're comparing quotes across designers, my breakdown of what listing designers charge in 2026 will help you read them like an insider.
What happens after you reach out
The process is boring on purpose. Boring means no surprises.
- You send the listing link (or the product idea) through my contact page. A few lines about where you are and where you want to be is enough. And if you haven't briefed a designer before, my briefing template makes it painless.
- Within 48 hours, the free audit lands in your inbox: three specific fixes, in plain language.
- You get a written scope, fixed price and delivery date. You approve, we start.
- Drafts come back for your feedback, revisions happen in the agreed rounds, and final files arrive sized for Amazon: high resolution, correct color, main image compliant with the pure-white RGB 255, 255, 255 background Amazon requires.
- You own the files outright, full commercial use, no licensing games.
Who I'm not the right fit for
Fair's fair: you should know when to hire someone else.
If your deciding factor is the lowest price, hire the lowest price and own that choice. I won't be the cheapest quote you get, and I don't want to be. Cheap design is the most expensive mistake a listing can make: you pay twice, once for the cheap version and once for the redo. If you're weighing a freelancer against a full agency, I wrote an honest freelance-vs-agency breakdown that argues both sides, including when the agency wins.
If you want me to lift a competitor's images and swap the logo, the answer is no. I'll design you the better version of the idea. I won't steal the image. And if you need it by tomorrow morning, ask — sometimes the schedule allows it. But I won't promise Monday and deliver a rush job on Friday. A date I can't hit is a lie, and I don't sell those either.
So who's the right fit? Sellers who treat the gallery like it matters, because Amazon's own words say it does. If that's you, the cheapest next step is also the free one: send me your listing and get the audit. You'll know within 48 hours whether I'm your guy.