From the course: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
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Reviewing a sample contract
From the course: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
Reviewing a sample contract
Let's review a few more samples of Designer-Client Agreements. Please look at sample contracts numbers 4, 5 and 6 in your Resource Guide. Sample 4 has the format and structure I have recommended. This is a web design contract and it's interesting that the designer used little wireframe diagrams to describe the scope of work for the site. You'll notice that this designer has included two pages of numbered terms and conditions; nothing too lengthy, but the designer is covered for the things that matter most to them. In contracts Sample 5 the designer has used more extensive phase description copy and actually priced each phase separately in Part 1 of the agreement. Their terms and conditions in Part 2 are typeset as paragraphs with bold subhead names. They've use slightly smaller type than was used in Part 1 of the Agreement. Contract Sample 6 has 2 parts; this is the sort of Agreement situation a motion graphics designer would use. First, they have done an estimate using their preset…
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