Logo Designers: Don't Promise Deadlines
As a graphic designer, I'm sometimes asked to 'promise' an urgent deadline as well as providing a logo design the client loves: Don't Promise Deadlines.
Somethings one can promise; other things, however, would be foolish and irresponsible to promise.
When a client asks me to promise, guarantee, or even stipulate in the contract, that the project will be completed by a certain date, I absolutely refuse to make this promise. Not because I'm being awkward; because I simply cannot keep that promise.
As a Graphic Designer, what shouldn't I Promise a Client?
So this is easy: don't ever promise a client that you can 'finish' a logo design project by a certain date.
If a client is really pressing you hard to commit to a deadline, you still need to try and avoid getting tied up with promises that are almost impossible to keep, or certainly guarantee.
But Why Can't I Promise This?
There are various reasons th… Read more →
