Hopefully there are very few industries like ours in terms of payment or lack of payment.
If you go to the doctor, and don't get well, you don't pay the doctor?
If you go to a restaurant, and don't enjoy your meal, you don't pay the check?
If you hire a lawyer, and go to jail anyway, your don't pay your legal fees?
Yet, I have come across people (if you don't pay - you're not a client) who need a logo, know exactly what they want, and just don't quite like what is presented. Most people even think that because the logo designs were done for them, they own all the comps. No money changes hands, but the comps are kept and shown to the next designer-victim as an example of what this person does and does not like. When a logo is finally approved the final designer will receive a pitiful sum.
I notice that this article is full of rationalization that favors your "client's" point of view. This type of thinking seems to be characteristic of graphics professionals. I do it too, but it is a very bad habit. If we don't value our skills, experience, equipment and overhead and insist on being paid, no one will do it for us.
Each client is hiring you for your experience. Make sure they can pay for it before you accept the job.
Professionals are paid for their work.
Hopefully there are very few industries like ours in terms of payment or lack of payment.
If you go to the doctor, and don't get well, you don't pay the doctor?
If you go to a restaurant, and don't enjoy your meal, you don't pay the check?
If you hire a lawyer, and go to jail anyway, your don't pay your legal fees?
Yet, I have come across people (if you don't pay - you're not a client) who need a logo, know exactly what they want, and just don't quite like what is presented. Most people even think that because the logo designs were done for them, they own all the comps. No money changes hands, but the comps are kept and shown to the next designer-victim as an example of what this person does and does not like. When a logo is finally approved the final designer will receive a pitiful sum.
I notice that this article is full of rationalization that favors your "client's" point of view. This type of thinking seems to be characteristic of graphics professionals. I do it too, but it is a very bad habit. If we don't value our skills, experience, equipment and overhead and insist on being paid, no one will do it for us.
Each client is hiring you for your experience. Make sure they can pay for it before you accept the job.