what's up guys it's tom satori here and i have a very interesting video that's going to benefit
you heading into 2021 and into the future with your graphic design career now if you
are a graphic designer who's actively taking on clients and jobs you're going to need a contract
a contract is going to prevent you guys from being abused or taken advantage of
in the world of design and business in general and it's going to dictate how many hours
you work how much you get paid and it might even save you from some legal trouble and i've
made some tweaks to my contract heading into 2021 and we're gonna go through that right now
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and so much more so yeah stay tuned to the very end today's video to learn more so in the first
part of my contract i state that the designer and the client both agree to the following schedule
and i've actually listed each part of a logo design process for my logo contract
and there's a blank space that allows for us to fill in the dates when these part of
the projects are going to be finished by now in the second part of this contract
we have a part that stipulates how many revisions are going to be allowed to the client and also
how much your time is going to be charged per hour after those revisions have been exhausted and this
is really crucial because you don't want to be you know stuck in a project with a client where you're
just taking advantage of and you're just working more and more and more for free with this part
of the contract you can stipulate exactly how many revisions are going to be offered and how
much you're going to be charging per hour after those revisions and number three is a crucially
important part of the contract and that is the deposit and how much the deposit is going to be
now you should always try and secure deposit when you're working on any project with a
graphic design client i personally ask for 50 of the agreed budget up front before i start any
work now number four in the contract basically says that the client will own all artwork that
is delivered to them when the project has been completed as the designer you don't
own the artwork you relinquish the rights over to them because you're designing it for them
however in my contracts i've stated that i can actually display the artwork in a portfolio
and the client will obviously agree to that now number five basically states that the contract
can be expired and completely terminated which is normal after project finishes
but also it states that if the client does not pay the final full amount of the project budget their
deposit is not going to be refunded that's why you have the deposit there just in case the client you
know goes against their initial wants and needs and you haven't then wasted your time working on
a project for free my number six on my contract can be a bit tricky to understand but essentially
what it says is that everything that you design for the client as in this example here a logo
it doesn't guarantee that it's going to meet their standards or is going to you know lead to profits
for the company from that design alone you're just there to design the logo and you should do it
properly and it should be you know efficient for their their brand or their company but you cannot
predict the future and you shouldn't be held you know responsible for the profits of their company
and then also number seven kind of protects you against any kind of damages that their company
or the logo or the design might actually incur in the future this refers to like legal kind
of difficulties or legal troubles but also as an example say you rebranded a company's logo
and then that company kind of went down a hill they cannot say that was your fault just because
of the rebrand and number seven in this contract kind of protects you from that and finally the
eighth part of my contract basically just says that this contract has been signed by both parties
and it is a legal binding contract or document and the client actually acknowledges that and then of
course at the very end we have both the client and my signature to be printed out and the date
so yeah that is my contract for heading into 2021 and you want to keep it as simple as possible
whilst getting in the correct information that you need every client should be okay with signing
such a contract because it's not trying to trick them out of any money in any way and you do need
to safeguard yourself but also them as well to give them some kind of security so the sponsor
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you want to learn something else today and until next time guys design your future today peace
you