Since there is alot of debate and discussion upon prices and quotations in quite a few areas in LYT.NET, I figured we would and should have one in general, to see the general average market price that people are charging for different type of services and projects.. I hope this thread can give an insight and aware of younger and more inexperience designers of the market value and price.

In general as i said in the other thread:

This is just the usual method I calculate my quotations upon. It depends on:

1) type of project - brochure? business card? posters? etc...
2) time
3) size of the work
4) colour or b/w
5) client (going more into more detail would be saying how large is your client? Are they are multinational company who does publishing? or a newly open publishing house which is starting out. But once in a while you do meet projects that are interesting and allow you to have the freedom to express yourself as well as the client having a tight budget. So overall I would charge them 90 - 80% from the given rate i would give them and give them 100% because if you do the task at hand well, they will come back to you for future business.)
6) production costs - printing, scanning, etc
7) transportation cost / transportation reimbursement.

This post has been edited by nada-: Jan 23 2006, 11:00 PM

I think a survey would help with this better. But too bad we can't create multiple surveys for different type of websites. :|

Would you think designers here would be interested in a union? Or even to help design an awareness program for clients and the general public to help people understand and appreciate designers more? It could even educate and aware not just the public but designers themselves.

sound interesting?

i think there's a talk about that...http://midiconvention.com/
although they dont really emphasize on how much you'll get paid and stuff..'

for that, u have to learn the hard way. starting from scratch...hehe..until you become the designer god, where you dont have to do the designing work (labor work)..instead, you just use your head and do the talking...hhaha!

consultant.. mmm.. goodie..

well, the union should be made to most importantly..

- to protect the rights of designers and their work
- to help the government promote and maintain the importance of design
- to promote the interest of design
- to eliminate the mindset of how lowly are designers
- to support and provide guidance to designers in need
- to tie up the community of designers closer

..anyone else would like to add..?

How about searching for young and new talents?
Having design workshops and competitions?
To discuss more upon alot of designer's issues in more detail?
Discuss about the market and the social responsibilities that designers have?

I've always thought about this for quite a while...

actually.. i think if we really started this.. seeking support from colleges like LUCT, TOA and others will be helpful in promoting the union as well as maybe gain help in orgazining the needed workshops, competitions or events.

To be realistic etsuko, institution such as these are not interested in these sort of things. I know what your getting at since these are design schools and funding is needed for this sort of project. But LUCT has no interest in such things unless 'you are paying them', as i'm studying there at the current moment and anything to get started cost me $$$. Weird huh? Anyway back to the discussion, yea we should find interested people as well as sponsours. If you are really serious about workshops as well it needs to be done professionally and properly. I would suggest competitions first with maybe prize money from sponsours but the theme is specifically interesting.

cheers

well, everyone is out to make a buck and don't worry, I'm an ex-LUCT student so I know what it's like to have parents pay from the nose.

how does a competition promote the awareness of a union..?

well a competition is there to gather interest from participants, but the competition should also help bring designers together. That is where we can have more fruitul discussions about....

and what prizes spawn from a competition with currently 2 of us in it? I'm sure you've noticed only two of us have been actively discussin this. :|