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Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements

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Learn to protect you and your client's interests and ensure a great creative design with a well-written contract.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to the course
  • Course disclaimer
  • About the exercise files
1. Contract Basics
  • Introduction to contracts
  • Anatomy of a contract: Part one
  • Anatomy of a contract: Part two
  • Reviewing a sample contract
2. Assessing the Project
  • Scoping the work: Part one
  • Scoping the work: Part two
  • Breaking down the creative process
  • Early phases of the creative process
  • Later phases of the creative process
  • Factors impacting the phases of a project
3. Financial Aspects
  • Talking money: General tips
  • Talking money: Revisions
  • Talking money: Other issues
  • Outlining your design fees
  • Estimate worksheet
  • Ways to price your work
  • Estimated expenses
  • Incorporating estimates from suppliers and subcontractors
  • Amending contracts with change orders
4. Legalese
  • The legal language: Terms and conditions
  • Using the AIGA Standard Form of Agreement as a terms template
  • Challenge scenario: Terms and conditions
  • Challenge scenario: Answers
  • Reviewing a sample contract
5. Contracts and Clients
  • Implementing the agreement
  • Negotiating contracts with clients
  • Managing an agreement
  • Problems and dispute resolution
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Terry Lee Stone

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