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This agreement allows you to create customized terms and conditions for your design engagements.
This annual survey offers the most comprehensive document of compensation data for the communication design profession.
This system of 50 symbol signs, produced by AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life.
The AIGA Designer Directory is the world’s largest searchable directory of practicing designers.
The Living Principles form a framework to provide designers and their clients with an understanding of the core facets of sustainability and enable them to take action.
Today’s designers should understand how to deploy design skills in a way that helps solves business problems for clients.
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The reason firms fail is not creativity, location, or the marketplace. It's management ability. Here are the most common 12 mistakes we see creative service firms make.
Section: Tools and Resources - Tags: studio management
The Association of Professional Design Firms (APDF) annual survey of design firms’ financial performance—which provides specific benchmarks and goal-setting parameters for design firm management not found in any other industry survey—can be an effective business management tool.
Section: Tools and Resources - Tags: finances, studio management
These standards define the expectations of a professional designer and represent the distinction of an AIGA member in the practice of design.
Section: Tools and Resources - Tags: professional development
Every design firm needs to have a comprehensive employee handbook. Shel Perkins explains what yours should cover and why.
Section: Tools and Resources - Tags: advice, human resources, studio management
By gathering and then sharing insights from more than 100 local sustainability experts—packaged in a beautifully designed brochure—Rachel Martin Design, Sean Busher Photography and Sustain Charlotte engaged the city to become a green leader.
Section: Why Design - Tags: brochure, sustainability, Design for Good
Writing for Visual Thinkers
Publication by Andrea Marks
Product DesignerZanbato
Mountain View, CaliforniaJanuary 23 2012
Peter Arkle News Issue Number 56
Peter Arkle
Wells Riley
Boston
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Pissed off about it? Solve it. A Notebook to prompt self initiated pro bono work by providing an objective process for a designer to use.
Shared in Tools & Resources by Dave Daniele