Are you ready to choose your designer and work together in order to run your project smoothly? Here, there are Six major steps for you to consider, guiding you and making sure your design project on schedule and run smoothly.
1.
First, choose your smart graphic designer to work with you.
This is a very important step to consider as a beginning point.
Do not ever rush this step because it will be causing tons of trouble and problems if you could not have a right graphic designer with right character, well disciplined, working styles and attitude to work with you.
The designer should also concern and treats seriously of deadline, otherwise you could end up suffering, becoming a painful and difficult to process the works for both of you.
2.
Read the contract that the designer supplied, make sure you understand it in details so you know exactly what are the things included and excluded.
This is the best way to avoid any arguments at the end of the project.
Do remember to ask who owns the copyright of the work when the project is completed.
Some illustrators and photographers retain the copyright on their original works and you may just license the use of the work for that particular project or within a specific of time.
3.
Define your needs and end product expectations.
Start thinking and considering the budget provided on to the particular project in term of the size, finishing and any additional cost may be involved.
Your designer may have ideas on how to cut costs without hurting quality of end product.
You should also consider your timeline for the entire project.
Some stages may need more time to process and deliver, so it is important to estimate the time to complete and along with cost involved.
4.
Organized wisely in the way of creative direction.
What do you want to accomplish with this project? Such questions should be asked, For instance, "Is it a sales piece or an informational piece?", "How a piece of work can dictates our feel and emotions.
", "Who are your audience or potential customers?", "What will they look forward?" "Are you looking for something elegant, light and fine, bold and heavy, feminine, rugged, digital age or fine art styles?", "What sort of colors, graphic shapes, logos, photos, etc.
need to be a part of the piece?", "What elements and resources are you providing for designer to use?", "What other elements need to be created and written as part of the project (for example, scripts, headlines and copywriting, photography, etc.
) 5.
Gather everything together.
If you're sending any documents such as digital files or soft copies to your graphic designer, make sure you save them in those format (version compatibility) that your graphic designer can easily open and use.
Consider also on others relevant materials (such as resources from your competition) which may help the graphic designer to develop and process the work more efficiently.
6.
Have a meeting with your graphic designer.
Now you're ready to sit down and talk.
This is the time to make sure you're working on the right track or direction with your graphic designer.
Certainly - the more frequent you are in preparing for your project, the smoother it usually would be in the process of achieving the result.
1.
First, choose your smart graphic designer to work with you.
This is a very important step to consider as a beginning point.
Do not ever rush this step because it will be causing tons of trouble and problems if you could not have a right graphic designer with right character, well disciplined, working styles and attitude to work with you.
The designer should also concern and treats seriously of deadline, otherwise you could end up suffering, becoming a painful and difficult to process the works for both of you.
2.
Read the contract that the designer supplied, make sure you understand it in details so you know exactly what are the things included and excluded.
This is the best way to avoid any arguments at the end of the project.
Do remember to ask who owns the copyright of the work when the project is completed.
Some illustrators and photographers retain the copyright on their original works and you may just license the use of the work for that particular project or within a specific of time.
3.
Define your needs and end product expectations.
Start thinking and considering the budget provided on to the particular project in term of the size, finishing and any additional cost may be involved.
Your designer may have ideas on how to cut costs without hurting quality of end product.
You should also consider your timeline for the entire project.
Some stages may need more time to process and deliver, so it is important to estimate the time to complete and along with cost involved.
4.
Organized wisely in the way of creative direction.
What do you want to accomplish with this project? Such questions should be asked, For instance, "Is it a sales piece or an informational piece?", "How a piece of work can dictates our feel and emotions.
", "Who are your audience or potential customers?", "What will they look forward?" "Are you looking for something elegant, light and fine, bold and heavy, feminine, rugged, digital age or fine art styles?", "What sort of colors, graphic shapes, logos, photos, etc.
need to be a part of the piece?", "What elements and resources are you providing for designer to use?", "What other elements need to be created and written as part of the project (for example, scripts, headlines and copywriting, photography, etc.
) 5.
Gather everything together.
If you're sending any documents such as digital files or soft copies to your graphic designer, make sure you save them in those format (version compatibility) that your graphic designer can easily open and use.
Consider also on others relevant materials (such as resources from your competition) which may help the graphic designer to develop and process the work more efficiently.
6.
Have a meeting with your graphic designer.
Now you're ready to sit down and talk.
This is the time to make sure you're working on the right track or direction with your graphic designer.
Certainly - the more frequent you are in preparing for your project, the smoother it usually would be in the process of achieving the result.
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