Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro

By Mike Monteiro

Co-founder of Mule layout and raconteur Mike Monteiro desires to assist you do your task higher. From contracts to promoting layout, from operating with consumers to operating with one another, this short booklet is jam-packed with wisdom you can’t have the funds for to not know.

Contents:

1. what's a Designer?
2. Getting Clients
3. selecting the best Clients
4. Charging on your Work
5. operating with Contracts
6. Sticking in your Process
7. featuring Design
8. dealing with Feedback
9. Getting your Money
10. operating with Others

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Talking to teens about sex is a lot like talking to designers about contracts. “We’re being careful. We’re in love. We trust each other. They have an agile process. ” A contract is like a prophylactic. It won’t keep you from getting fucked, but it may keep you free from additional liabilities down the road. Wo r k i n g W i t h C o n t r a c t s 45 See how I lured you into a chapter about contracts with tawdry sex talk? At the end of the chapter I’ll tell you a great dirty joke, too. In the last chapter we learned how to convince clients to work with us.

Blog about things you want to work on If you’re interested in working with Disney, then blog about Disneyland. Write the best blog about Disney design on the internet. Will this in and of itself guarantee that you’ll be the designer they call when they need work? No, but it certainly won’t hurt. And you’ll be writing about what you love anyway. As always, the key to everything, especially getting clients, is confidence. No one wants to deposit a check into an ATM machine that looks like it just got wheeled in place yesterday and may not be there tomorrow.

Anyhow, as a kid I didn’t have much money, so my friends and I would get seats in the 700 level, the highest level of the stadium. ” Meaning, we can’t see too much of the detail on the field yet, but it sounds like it’s an $80–$120K project. As we gain insight into the project we’ll start getting more precise with that figure and communicate that with them so that by the time they get a proposal in front of them it’s a figure they’ll be prepared for. If a potential client is going to have sticker shock, get it over with as soon as possible.

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