It doesn’t matter if you’re a person, small company or large company, when looking for a new logo design, print design or website there are items a designer must include in your design contract. You’re design project can vary from a small print design job to a large complex website. This list compiled will include items the designer must include in your agreement. If these items are not in your design agreement, make sure your designer includes them. The designer will always look to protect themselves, as they should, and so should you.

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I’m sure as a freelancer we’ve all said to ourselves at one point, probably in the middle of a project, “why didn’t I include that in the contract?” As designers we know the importance of getting agreements in writing, for the benefit of both the designer and the client.

This is going to be a two part series, first, what the designer must include in a design contract and another write-up on what a client must include in a design contract.

Nothing can teach us what should be in a contract more than experience. Unfortunately some of us have had to learn the hard way what the “musts” are in a design agreement. Below are some of the items that are absolute musts for designers to protect themselves financially, legally and just a pain in the…well you get the idea. (more…)