Almost every creative studio uses written contracts of some form with their clients. Many studios invest time and legal fees in developing their own custom contracts, while other designers will borrow contract language from the back of a design business book (or from a studio where they used to work). However your studio developed your […]

The October issue of the Creative Business newsletter has a valuable two-page white paper titled “How To Answer: I’d Like The Computer Files”, which discusses the legal and business issues involved when a client requests a copy of the original files used to build a recent project.

This increasingly common client request can pose a dilemma for many creative studios. Should you give them up? Do you have to? How do you respond to your client’s request?

Here is a tip that came up during the hour of Q&A after last week’s “Blog Your Portfolio” talk at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts: “What are some of the best tools out there for keeping track of my studios’s online buzz?” Here’s an easy tool we like: SocialMeter.com Type in the URL of your […]

Thanks to everybody who came out to SVC last Tuesday for our free “Blog your Portfolio” talk. Every seat in the house was taken, and we ended up staying almost a hour after the presentation answering questions and talk with people. As promised, here is a PDF of the slides from our talk: Blog Your […]