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Freelance Design Contracts Explained - A standard consultant contract is not appropriate for freelance graphic design projects. This article details elements of design contracts including pricing, billing, and art usage.
Never Work Without a Freelance Design Contract (About.com) - Craft a Contract for Your Desktop Publishing Business
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Graphic Design Business 10 Contracts (About.com) - Just as you should never begin a job without a deposit, you should never begin without a contract.
Graphic Design Sample Contracts (About.com) - Contracts submitted by viewers (i.e., designers) of About's Graphic Design site.
Letter of Agreement (Graphic-Design.com)Sample and explanation of a letter of agreement
Sample Advertising Agency Contract - Look at a sample advertising agency contract form.
Rooster Graphics Contract Graphic Design Agreement - Look at this graphic designer's graphic design agreement contract online
Contract Basics: Getting the Client to Sign on the Dotted Line (Creative Latitude) - In the movie "Glengarry Glen Ross" Alec Baldwin's character Blake, in a less than inspirational sales meeting speech, implored a group of underachieving real estate salesmen that "Only one thing matters in this life. Get them to sign on the line that is dotted." While the rest of Blake's speech was hardly uplifting and bordered on abusive, the above statement is not untrue.
Create a watertight Web site design contract (ecommerceattorney.com) - Rapid growth in the high-tech sectors, specifically regarding the Internet and related software and hardware, presents complex issues for small-business owners and their lawyers. Not surprisingly, many issues arise in contract negotiations between Web site owners and their contracted developers.
Taking Over a Web Site Design Project and the Contract / Agreement to Go With This Job Change - It may happen that a site owner becomes…what shall I say?.. disenchanted with a designer and wants to change. You may be the designer number 2 that the owner wants to come aboard. Shakespeare referred to stepping into the middle of a pile of …things as in medias res. We understand the opportunities quite clearly. But what are the dangers that you face in accepting the job?
Contract / Agreement Drafting and Negotiating Tips (AllBusiness.com) - Here are tips for helping you finalize a great contract to your benefit.
Contracts / Agreements - Common Clauses to Include in Freelance Design Contracts (About.com) - Include these phrases in your freelance design contract. Find out how these freelance contract clauses protect you and your clients.
Creative Public - Forms, Contracts, Pricing Guides, and More
Developing A Contract / Agreement As a service provider, the most important type of “boundary” you can set as a business owner involves those policies and procedures that govern how you interact with your clients.
Fundamentals of contracts / agreements (Himels-Computer-Law.com)This document provides some fundamental legal isuues involved in contracting. (by David B. Himelstein)
Get Ideas for Your Client Contracts from a Contract Swipe File (Provider Marketing Group)To save you the endless hours of scanning Altavista, Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler, and Hotbot listings under "agreements," "web agreements," etc., etc
How to Write Effective Business Contracts (AllBusiness.com) - Business contracts are legally binding written agreements between two or more parties. They are an important part of business and such agreements need to be created and/or reviewed carefully.
How to Create Legal Contracts Without Hiring a Lawyer (Yahoo) - Many new business owners find themselves in need of some kind of written contract or agreement to use with customers or clients, vendors and perhaps others as well, so your question is a good one. First, a word about attorneys in general
How To Create a Freelancing Contract (About.com) - Whether you're a freelance copywriter or a freelance graphic designer, you need a contract in place to protect yourself and to let your clients know exactly what they're getting from you.
10 Key Contracts for Small and Growing Businesses (AllBusiness.com) - The following is a summary of ten key contracts for small and growing businesses. These contracts need to be well thought out and drafted and can be crucial to the success of a business.
Home Business Online Legal Forms - These legal forms are a FREE Resource provided by Home Business Online. You may print and use them freely for your personal use.
Sample Contract (Freelance Bank)Here is a sample contract that a freelancer might be asked to sign. As a freelancer, you can also save this contract for your records, make neccesary changes, and ask the companies you work with to sign it.
Sample business agreements (MoreBusiness.com)Here are a handful of sample agreements, courtesy of Teneron Corporation, that you can use as a starting point for creating your own
Save time and money with these business forms (BusinessWeek.com)Here you'll find ready-to-use business tools to help you get the job done faster and easier
The Lowdown On Contracts (BusinessTown.com)Like most people, small business owners tend to shy away from signing anything. Learn about contracts and stop being intimidated now.
Ten Tips for Making Solid Business Agreements and Contracts (Nolo.com) - Follow these guidelines to make an enforceable, plain-English business agreement or contract.
Work for Hire Agreements - The work-for-hire doctrine transfers copyright in the work from the creator to the hiring party.
1 Stop Legal Indpendent Contractor Contracts - Find and download your freelancing contracts
Business in a Box - An Essential Collection of Business & Legal Forms
ContractMaker - a high value-low cost, "intelligent" online document / contract assembly service, backed with our assistance, empowering YOU to control your contract drafting costs - with the same confidence level you would have with a top law firm.
Digital Contracts, Inc. Sell software for producing legal contracts for software and on-line businesses.
Eserver TC Library - Several freelancing contract resources located here.
FindLaw website (FindLaw)FindLaw forms index
Legal Documents (Law.net)This site allows YOU to prepare customized legal documents directly online.
LawDepot.com - Quality legal contracts online. Easily creat a customized doucument with our automated form.
LegalDocs websitelegal documents online - they cost from $10 and under
Legal Zoom - Save time and money on common legal matters! Created by top attorneys, LegalZoom helps you create reliable legal documents from your home or office.
Streetwise Tips on Contracts (BusinessTown.com) - Whenever possible, provide the contract yourself. Don’t use someone else’s. You may save the cost of creating a contract, but you will lose that important control over content advantage a contract gives you.
Best Graphic Design Career and Business Books - Ultimate List of Books for Freelancers & New Designers - I decided to compile a list of the best graphic design career and business books collected from reading people's favorites listed on forum posts and blogs. I came up with the following graphic design career and business books.
This part II of a never-ending series of the coolest outside ads, billboards, and public advertising.
Best Clever & Unique Billboards and Outdoor Advertising I have found tons of the coolest billboards, outdoor advertising, and transit ads ever. I am listing many of them today but I have found many others (and I am still searching for more) that I will list soon. I am listing them in a gallery [...]
This is part II of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do.
Within this article, I am going to detail the ?six steps? that I took to design the logo for the ?Seventh Congress of Zoos and Aquariums?
I saw some really beautiful logos today so I thought that I would share some with you and then make a series out the idea. This is part I of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do. Either way, enjoy the following list of beautiful / cool logo designs.
This is the 4th part of our Coolest Business Card series. This time, we are including the printer (when we can find out the information) who printed these business cards.
This article was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. Mark is an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years. He has documented the design of a logo from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers. I know that you will learn something from this tremendous logo design article.
The Graphic Design industry is very competitive, and trust me, it can certainly get stressful and frustrating at times. However, it doesn?t always have to be that way. Here, I have broken down my design process. This is how I create my design layouts from start to finish. Basically, with some focus, structure, and a little bit of talent, creating rewarding and professional design work can be produced more efficiently and with less stress.
As a designer everyone has experienced a point where they just can no longer think of anything worth while. It?s in these situations when you have to reevaluate your perception of what works and what doesn?t. Use the following 20 tips to avoid and get through a tough designer's block.
Graphic Design and Typography are deeply connected. For that reason, I figure that most of you are going to love these free online font and type tools. Most, if not all, of these are very useful and I recommend that you use them when you have a chance. Below you will find the huge list of free browser-based font and type tools.
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6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
Mar 7Hot in Graphic Design - A Superb Guide to Designing With Black
A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
Mar 6Hot in Graphic Design - Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer
Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer Hey, I bet you think you are the best Graphic Designer around, don't you?! Well, if you are brave enough, you should take a look at an article which will hit you where it hurts (if you are doing any of the 13 tell tale [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios
Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
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Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume?
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Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - List of 120+ Free Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs
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Website Design for Online Bridal Guide
I prefer to work with designers located: houston texas Number of pages (approx): about 10-15 My Industry: commercial wedding Will need graphics, content management, and members areas with forums.? Client is in Freno, TX
Website Redesign: Fencing Lessons
Number of pages (approx):10 We will provide the grpahics that we for the site. It already has a user login area for signing up for lessons that works. I want to add in e-commerce to pay for lessons a? Client is in Hauppauge, NY
Web Design: Financial Consultants
Comments: we are UAE based company need to dynamic website. send me the proposed cost and time line. Web pages5-10 Industry = Financial consultants/trading ? Client is in .,
Website Redesign: Audio and Video Produc
I prefer to work with designers located: Chicago/Minneapolis/Milwaukee 1 Logo 20 -25 page website Website needs new graphics and flash.? Client is in La Crosse, WI
Front End Web Design for Consumer Produc
Number of pages (approx):10-15pgs My Industry:Manufacture for consumer product/presentation tools We need the front end designed for our site for about 10-15 pages. Possibly some flash elements like? Client is in Irvine, CA
Line Cards and Signage Design
I need a line card that displays the image we are looking for, products we are selling and signage for the business and a truck. I am also looking for advertizing on promo items (shirts and hats). I w? Client is in San Jose, CA
Web Design for Startup IT Company
Design Type: Informational for Startup IT Company 20 pgs Flash Intro, Flash Banner, rest all static pages, except for Feedback form No functionality.? Client is in ,
Web Design: Children's Author
I am an author who needs a 1-3 page website that will link to my publishers, booking agents, and possibly book wholesellers. Possibly a flash sideshow for the books. Minimal graphics. ? Client is in Pittsburgh, PA
Web Design for Hosting Company
Number of pages (approx): 10 pages My Industry: web hosting Would like graphics created if possible within budget. No functionality. inmotionhosting.com, iweb.com, hostatree.com. - i want the feel a? Client is in Trichirappalli,