I've been designing (my personal projects) for the past 6 years and recently I started designing logos for clients.   Now, there is this client who wanted a logo. I took 6 days to submit 1 logo and 1 day to submit 5 variations (totally different) of that logo upon rejection (PS. all 6 were standard).   Finally, he selected the last one (IT'S STILL THERE AS HIS LOGO IN HIS WEBSITE) and when I asked for my payment, he started "abusing" me over phone claiming that I delayed his project (He never mentioned any deadline). Since I'm a beginner, I didn't know that I had to sign an agreement before hand. But, I have the PSD file, whatsapp conversation with him and a screen shot of the logo in his website. How do I deal with this?
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I recently had an experience with a client that was a bit messy, and now they don't want to pay for the work I did.   They needed some presentation decks, one of which needed to be editable (text to go on top of graphics) in PowerPoint. I told them that I do not work in PowerPoint as a graphic designer, what I can do is create images that can serve as a background template onto which text boxes on PowerPoint can be created.   From there, my time was highly mismanaged. The person kept directing me to figure out different ways of working around what I proposed and seemed resistant to it. All the research I did, and later confirmed with graphic designers- told me that this was the way to go from Adobe to PowerPoint. I initially did not want to invoice for this time, but they directed me to look into things after I told them I didn't work in PowerPoint.   They fired after I spent days on end working and researching to appease the woman and see if I could find other ways around around her reticence about working with the approach I outlined about.  They then sent me an email that my work was incomplete and unusable and would not pay me (p.s. they fired me before they even reviewed all of it, and what was reviewed was never stated to be incomplete or un-useable). I explained to them that my time was 1) mismanaged and redirected to research and this delayed design time and 2) that I did everything I was directed to and they fired me before any revisions or edits could be made. If they needed something to be created in PowerPoint from the start, they should have told me.   So I was hoping to get advice- it is my understanding that designers don't work in PowerPoint and that I worked around this in the way that it seems everyone I talked to would. Can they do this? We agreed to freelancing per hour, not per project, I did not have a contract unfortunately.
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I'm wondering if anyone has any tips, tutorials or templates on how to 'fake' a printed effect. I want to make it look in my portfolio like I have printed business cards and other collateral without doing so.
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I am developing the backend for a website. I always had the trouble of making an attractive design for my websites and have never hired any graphic designer yet. I have no logo nor web template.  What are the steps to hire a graphic designer? What information should I read about before hiring one in order to make most out of our time? Where should I find him? What questions should I ask him? How much do they charge and what qualifications should I look out for? Should I disclose my business ideas to the designer or could that be risky?
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Any idea on how to Design Printable stuff for different cars. I mean branding a complete car by designing stickers which are than pasted on a car. The main problem is that how can we get the measurements of different things like doors of the car etc...
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It's not part of the artwork and doesn't seem to be hurting anything, but I get this on a lot of client logos and I'm wondering how to get rid of it.   I think it's part of the artboard, but can't find anything to select/change/remove it.
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I saw  that the user had self-answered by editing the question. I pointed out that they should really answer the question. I know they wouldn't be able to straight away, but I assumed they'd tried and got the &quot;you need to wait a bit&quot; prompt. However, what I didn't realise was that the message says:  Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because: Users with less than 100 reputation can't answer their own question for 8 hours after asking. You may self-answer in 7 hours. Until then please use comments, or edit your question instead  (my bold). Should we really be suggesting that people put the answer in the question even as a temporary measure? What's the next step for this? Is there any agreement that this phrase should be removed? If there is how do I turn it into a feature request without asking a new question? Should I just ask a new question which is a feature request?
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I've recently been offered a job designing a flyer for an event that a local organization is hosting. I was asked if I could also include the project files so they could easily alter the design for the next year of this event (it's a yearly competition).  This is no problem with me and I will be sending them the project files for the design. What I do wonder however is if it is good practice to charge a bit extra for doing this? And if so, how much (in relation to the original cost) extra should I charge?  Thanks for your input!
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I am fairly new at graphic design and I have just finished creating a logo and marketing materials for a client. I only intended for the images to be used for marketing and advertising of their business, but I'm wondering what kind of rights I have if they randomly decide to try and sell products with the logo.   Is there any way to give my client the rights to use the images for anything they want unless it involves selling items with my designs? If they started selling t-shirts or something, would it be inappropriate to ask for royalties? I keep reading that it is appropriate in this situation to sign over all of the rights to my client since it is their branding materials, but I just don't understand. Has anyone ever had experience with this?   We don't have any sort of contract at the moment (which I now know was a mistake), and I can't seem to find the answer to this question anywhere.
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I got a couple of questions about game trademarks.   When should I submit a trademark for my game if I see that this is a serious project? Where do I submit a trademark request? Does it have to be local (In my country)? What do I need to be ready to submit a trademark request?   Thanks!
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I am creating a logo and would like to use the Google Font 'Lato', can I use this font in my logo design or are there copyright/limitations I need to worry about? I can't find anything online other than that it is an open source font that can be used in anyway you want (maybe that's my answer but I just want to make sure). Also, is it a bad idea to use a web-based font for a logo?
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I'm currently working on a logo for a client. Here is the work in progress.   It seems obvious to me that the S should align with the line above. I feel that the best way of aligning it however is to align the bottom part of the S rather than the top curve, even thought the top curve does protrude more. See the following example   Also at the other end of the logo, the A I feel can do something similar, minimising the white space triangle at the end of the logo    The end result I think is more pleasing in its alignment   I feel that this is correct, but my client is questioning it. This alignment is a habit I have picked up during my career, so I haven't been formally taught this, in fact I can't remember where I picked this up.   Tell me, have I picked up a bad habit here? Is my client correct? If this is correct does this type of alignment have a name? Or is there an article somewhere I can refer my client to?
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Someone in another state asked me to be his personal assistant.  From the start I was suspicious.  He said he was doing a lot of projects in my state and needed my help.  Then he said he needed to transfer some money to my account (via mobile), but in order to do so he requires my full name, account number, username, and password.  I've never heard of this.  Please advise, as this sounds really weird and risky!
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My wife recently got a logo designed for her new business, by a professional branding company. It went through several stages of approval, getting the logo just right, however, when she went on to the next stage of the process (creating the social media pages) she was asked to find some stock images to use for the banners.  While doing so, she found her "logo" was taken exactly from an existing stock image. The only modification done was to add a little bit of color and her business name.    I don't know the proper etiquette for this situation is. Is it bad that her logo is a stock image and if so, is it too late in the process to request a change (note they claim to allow unlimited revisions but I'm not sure if that applies once we "accept" the design).  Stock Image:   Logo:
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I'm not a fan of allowing any outside logos into an app but it is a Client requirement. The requirement is that a user can upload their logo and it will replace the app logo in a space that is 120px - 160px width. There are several problems to try to prevent when allowing the user to upload a logo:   poor quality image that is pixelated when uploaded wrong size image that will be distorted when displayed unvectored text in logo font images ( which can't be prevented ) wrong aspect ratio logos   I'd like to know what the best parameters to set for an uploaded logo.  We can do a check with the code for the px width and height. But the code can not check if the text has been vectorized.  Any insights would be nice in this problem. Thanks in advance.
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If you design a piece for print. It gets reproduced several times over the course of a few years. Then the client doesn't return for any work for a few more years. And suddenly you are contacted asking for native files (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop). As the client puts it, "We just want to be able to make minor changes, we aren't designers."  Now, there is absolutely value in the native files. They are my "secret recipe" as a designer and anyone asking for that recipe should provide compensation for the ease of reusing, repurposing, and altering the recipe.  How do you explain to this client that there is value in the native files?  How do you counter the "But we already paid for the design." argument?  Note: I know I own the files. I know my contract states I own the files. Heck even without a contract, US Copyright law states I own the files.  What I'm seeking is an elegant, less argumentative, method of explaining the file ownership to the uneducated client. Reciting legal statutes and contract clauses doesn't often make for friendly client relations. My goal is to find a method of explaining so it is fully understood by the client without the appearance of a contract clause which forces them to do something against their will. I want the client to respect and not resent these types of contract clauses.
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The Creative Commons FAQ      Third, if the licensor does not like how the material has been modified or used, CC licenses require that the licensee remove the attribution information upon request [...]  in 4.0, this also applies to the unmodified work.   How do I remove / dissociate my name from a post, in accordance with this clause?  Also, what are the effects of having my post dissociated from my account?  Finally, how will dissociation requests be handled for posts licensed under earlier versions of the license, which do not require dissociation upon request in all cases?
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I freelance, but I'm still green in some areas and Copyright is one of them. I know about using/purchasing stock and all that, I have accounts on all the stock sites, but I created a design, which resulted in some issues.The design had some copyrighted material and here's where I'm confused.   My design is complete vector based. I either made my own vector from an image, or I used a Photoshop brush. I was once told that a loophole with using images was that if you make a brush out of an image and create that image using a brush, it's considered a tool and there's technically no copyright. This could be wrong information, or maybe it doesn't apply to certain imagery. I downloaded a brush set that doesn't have any copyright restrictions attached to it and used that to create some of my images that are an issue. So my question is, if I create my own vector or use a brush of an image, let's say Mickey Mouse, could that still create copyright issues?      My next question is fonts. Can words be copyrighted? Some of the issues in my design were words and I understand the issue was probably related to the LOOK of the words, but if I find a font (one free font I found looked similar) can I use this without any issue?  Any help would be appreciated. I haven't had to worry about copyright before, until this project and it confuses me so much!