Learn to protect you and your client's interests and ensure a great creative design with a well-written contract.
Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to the course
- Course disclaimer
- About the exercise files
- Introduction to contracts
- Anatomy of a contract: Part one
- Anatomy of a contract: Part two
- Reviewing a sample contract
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Implementing the agreement
- Negotiating contracts with clients
- Managing an agreement
- Problems and dispute resolution
- Next steps
Taught by
Terry Lee Stone
