“We will be exploring sole traders, partnerships, studios, agencies and collectives. We will look at how these varying types of enterprises operate at different stages of growth. We will also consider issues such as intellectual property, audit and security within different scales of business.
We will be unpacking the operational and strategic factors that support working as a designer today. We will also consider the different types of clients that you may choose to engage with as a creative entrepreneur within a variety of different contexts.”
Read | Watch | Listen
Crawford, T. (ed) (2008) AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design, New York: Allworth Press.
Title: AIGA professional practices in graphic design pp. 7–14
Name of Author:
David C. Baker & Crawford, Tad & American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Name of Publisher: Allworth Press
How clients want to be treated
Basically, he is explaining that if we put more efforts and make the clients come back to us for more work, we will make profit and also avoid expenses to find new clients. So, good customer service is essential skill for designers.
DBA Design Business Association – https://www.dba.org.uk/
CSD Chartered Society of Designers – https://www.csd.org.uk/
Institute for Experiments with Business – https://fo.am/activities/ibex/
Links to an external site.
Vicky Kafkaki - Graphic Design MA Falmouth University 