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Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
Neil Webb

Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements

with Terry Lee Stone

 


As a freelance creative, you need to know how to write proposals and contracts for client-commissioned projects. Learn the basics of writing consulting agreements that are good legal and financial insurance and great tools for communicating with clients. Author Terry Lee Stone also introduces a pricing equation that helps you estimate your costs and charge appropriately for your work and shows how to manage complexities of client relationships, especially when it comes to defining an acceptable number of revisions.
Topics include:
  • Understanding the anatomy of a contract
  • Scoping the project
  • Estimating your costs
  • Subcontracting work
  • Heading off problems

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author
Terry Lee Stone
subject
Business, Design, Freelancing, Design Business
level
Appropriate for all
duration
1h 10m
released
Apr 30, 2013

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Terry Lee Stone

Terry Lee Stone

Terry Lee Stone, is a writer, design management consultant, and creative strategist. She has worked with top U.S. design firms and their clients. She teaches the business of design at Art Center College of Design. She has taught Professional Practice at CalArts and Otis College of Art. The author of several books, including the Managing The Design Process series, Stone also writes for HOW, Communication Arts, and Felt & Wire. She's "Ask Design B*tch" at rockpaperink.com. Stone has served on the AIGA in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Miami, where she was the president; and has presented lectures to numerous creative organizations, including the AIGA, the Art Directors Club of New York, and the HOW Design Live Conference. She's the co-author of the cookbook Booze Cakes, proving that Stone isn't all business all the time.
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Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements Appropriate for all 1h 10m 04/2013  {8}

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