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HOW A CLIENT SEES A GRAPHIC DESIGNER IN COMPARISON TO HOW A GRAPHIC DESIGNER SEES A CLIENT.

As a Graphic Designer, your Clients are sure not limited to a particular age, gender or race.. there's the possibilities that you can directly get a project from a banker, a lawyer even the governor of a state if you're chanced.

Thing is, most Graphic Designers see their Clients for the worth of their projects, their budgets and how well they bring businesses. They measure a particular Client with another and then they deliver their services in respect to that.
You can relate if you have multiple Clients or handle multiple projects.

While on the other hand, a large amount of potential Clients see their Graphic Designers for how big their design brands are. They transact businesses and interact with the designer in this measure.
When a Client see that a particular Designer is more of a freelancer and have no physical work office and staffs and all of that, they think he/she is a rookie. Like, he/she is not worth the amount of pricings they're being given. Like, he/she can not deliver.

Should that really be so?

They're Graphic Design Brands that works with big Businesses and yet, they offer little services in comparison to the high amounts these businesses pay them. While they're small individual Graphic Design Brands that have so much to offer but the pay amount they get is pitiful.

Should a Client really see a Designer for how big labelled he/she is or for the creative ideas, talents and contributions they can get from such Designer?

Should a Graphic Designer see his/her client for the budgets they bring or for the opportunities and rewards that comes afterwards while working with them?

Brands like Apple, Amazon, eBay, Alibaba etc have Designers they trust and can rely on. Why? Somehow, they see these Designers for what contributions they truly can offer and how loyal they're. It's not necessary about how big the designers are.

Take BBC, CNN, FBI, PEPSI and FIFA for examples.. how elaborate is their logo? Their logos are minimal, distinct and precise. These brands prefer talents to name, they prefer idealistic designers to famous ones, they are convenient if you can deliver their desired projects with a single software rather than owning various tools and equipments and yet, lacking in renditions.

Stories are, these Designers weren't paid much when the businesses started but as the businesses grow, they never dejected their designers. They appreciates them.

And that is how Client should truly see a Graphic Designer. For what they can offer. For their versatility, their creativity, their ability to get a whole developed concept from a single word.

Designers should know these; look for the potential benefits that comes with every Clients. In the long run, what do you stand to gain from such Clients.. ?

Get paid for your jobs, tame your Clients well and see them for what you can gain from them, aside the money they pay.