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Practical Tips for You as a Designer
AGD – this is one of the largest designer associations in Europe. It brings together creatives from all disciplines. The team advises designers along with their lawyers and tax consultants and imparts valuable knowledge about the design business.
Among other things, the association or the author Andreas Maxbauer has published the helpful e-book "Practical Tips for Designers – Information for Your Career Start as a Freelance Designer" which we would like to recommend today: The following topics are covered here (in relation to Germany):
English image not yet available...- Consider carefully before committing – freelance or commercial?
- Social interactions
- From shared flat to joint-stock company – collaborating with designers
- Bought as seen – sharpening your own profile
- Purely a matter of relationships – acquiring assignments
- Life as a permanent freelancer
- What counts is the bottom line
- Designing, holding, and managing books
- The taxed added value of design
- Design pays off – invoicing your services
- You are in demand – the tax system for designers
- Insured and assured
- Artistic qualities are worth money
- Well insured even in professional matters
- So that mistakes are only half as bad
- Designing within the legal framework
- Customer threatens with an assignment
- On the proper use of copyright
- The benefits of unknown users
- Start-up aids and state aids
- Design is everywhere – so are we
- Recommended literature and further information
