I'm gonna save you some headaches and possible legal trouble so stay tuned as
we go through my contract for graphic design
so yeah today I'm just gonna show you my contract that I use when signing on a
new job with a new client so let's jump into the contract and I'm gonna read
through it and explain to you each individual step and what it means for
you as a graphic designer now every time you hear or read licensure in the
contract that applies to me or you as a designer Thomas Cargill will provide a
final layer design solution on the agreed to date of 711 2018 in the
following file formats ai PDF EPS and JPEG as well as the first draft design
on the two dates of 1st of 11th 2018 and I basically this is just you outlining
when you intend to supply the final graphic design solutions after the
revisions but also when you supply the first draft which on my contract here is
the first of the 11 you'll see later in the contracts that I actually display
how many revisions are allowed in the budget so yeah it'll an outline how long
it's going to take you as a designer to supply the client their designs in
brackets it says insert company your name that's just the person that you're
working for they'll call the licensee agrees to
supply a fully project brief to Tomas Cargill licensure at the beginning of
the project now this is it kind of goes without saying but you do want to put in
the contract that they need to supply a project brief which tells you exactly
what you need to be doing in their project insert company name again agrees
to pay the sum total of three hundred and seventy five dollars at the
beginning of the project which amounts to 50% of the agreed budget of seven
hundred and fifty dollars which covers all lugar graphics presented and
completed they should say hereby the licensure to the sum total of seven
hundred and fifty dollars and that covers all our work and two revisions
past the due dates of the first draft of the design so essentially what this is
saying here is that they agree to pay half of the budget upfront before you do
any of the work and also that the you know the whole the full budget seven
hundred and fifty dollars covers the first draft and also two revisions and
these two revisions done before the 7th of 11 2018 so you
can see that here I'm just outlining that the work is gonna be done by
certain dates and I need half of the budget up front which is something you
really want to be doing because you might get a client that doesn't like the
design for whatever reason and that 50% covers that any work required on set
project past the due date will be billed to the licensee at $40 per working hour
now this is saying that after you've done the two revisions and even after
the final due day if the client wants any changes made or any more revisions
it's gonna cost him $40 per hour upon sending the first draft designs the
licensee agrees to provide feedback within 24 hours for the possible to
allocated revisions now this is just you setting yourself up so you don't have
your time wasted in the future of the project because sometimes you know you
might get a client that takes a long time to reply and doesn't give you
feedback in time but this ensures that they you know they make they know that
you need to respond to you in a pretty fast time failure to provide the final
50% sum total will result in the final graphics and artwork being withheld I
mopped the liver to the hilt company your name so this is saying that if they
don't pay the final or 50% that they're not going to receive any of the files so
yeah this goes back to if they didn't like the design of the artwork they
can't really say anything because they've signed this contract and I'm
moving on to the last paragraph as working licensure Thomas Cargill
relinquishes all rights related to monetary gain and royalties of the
graphics created this is basically me giving their design to the cut giving
the design to the client and they basically have the rights to that design
now I'm just a designer here I'm not someone who's part of the brand or I
have shares in the company unless you have some sort of different agreement
between you and your client it's pretty standard to relinquish your rice like
this to your client you do want to hold the right to being able to use a design
in your portfolio of work which is why I've stated here in the contract and
this next point is really quite important for the client it reads as
follows as working licensure Thomas Cargill will only use materials and
software that he has legal rights to use basically if I use copyright
vectors or designs are not my own they could get into some copywriting legal
issues so basically I'm just telling them that I'm gonna be using materials
and resources that I have the rights to use so they're not gonna get legal
trouble later down the line and then finally Thomas Cargill cannot
be held responsible for monetary damages relating to the agreed budget a sum
total of $750 so yeah there was a quick video today on the kind of contracts
that I use for you know my clients graphic design and I think it depends on
you know what kind of relationship you've got with your client and how
strong your portfolio is or how much of a presence you have as a designer online
or in the industry because if you've got more of a presence and you're more
established a designer you can really leverage yourself a lot more in a
contract and you can ask for a lot more in the way of money and in the way of
you know coverage and stuff like that and also I think one really important
point is to just state how many revisions you give so in my case two
revisions and after that point how much you're going to charge per hour and of
course at the bottom you get them to digitally sign the contracts and the
dates there as well I'm also find that you're good to go and
hopefully you have a great project with your client so yes the weekend so have a
great time everybody and until next time this on your future today peace