The business of design - for designers
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A series of workshops presenting the skills needed to operate a successful design business.
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Half-day workshops
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Job costing workshop
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This session will help all designers work out the real cost of running a business and how to create a job costing system.
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Mind the gap
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This workshop shows how to improve profitability by closing the gap between client expectations and your delivery. Suitable for graphic, industrial, interior, packaging, product and web designers.
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Designing demand
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Practical advice on how to examine your current client base and expand it to capture new business. Suitable for graphic, industrial, interior, packaging, product and web designers.
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Presentation skills
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Two workshops designed to cater for all levels of graphic designers, from those with basic experience through to seasoned performers.
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Writing for the web
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Web surfers don’t want to read, instead they scan pages and flick from one to another. This session demonstrates how to write better web content. Suitable for graphic and web designers.
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Proofreading for designers
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Don’t let your design down with sloppy checking. Participants learn and apply standard proofreading marks. Discussion includes the production process and terminology, how to check design and prepress proofs, and general proofreading hints.
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Membership of the dbc is free and open to all participants in the design loop.
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