Archive for August, 2009
Dealing With Clients Who Want to be Designers?
One of the many frustrations that designers face is dealing with clients who want to be the customer and the creative director. They tell you exactly what they want from colour to layout in specific detail. They supply you with a colour pallet of 100 different shades of blue and green, they even send you a sample they did in Powerpoint. To some people this might seem like an organised client but to designers this is a car crash in slow motion.
Read moreTo Auction or Not To Auction
There are a lot of websites these days that let designers auction their work off online. The basic idea is that a client signs up with an auction site, posts a brief online and waits for hundreds of designers to submit their best work. The designer with the best work gets paid. You see the problem is, what about the hundreds of designers who submitted their work but didn’t get paid?
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