Do you know how to protect your ideas, concepts and work when you are working with other designers, creatives, potential suppliers or clients? Do you know how to protect your products online or when you are at a trade show? This webinar is aimed at creatives who want to learn more about the legal aspects [...] Read more »
Book review: ‘The Essential Guide to Business for Artists & Designers’ by Alison Branagan
(PLEASE NOTE: The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers, Essential Guides has recently been entirely updated and revised. The cover image here on the left is not the most up to date one, and we will be updating our images very soon.) The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers (Essential Guides) [...] Read more »
Exclusive Business Club webinar: Making money from your intellectual property: royalties & licensing, with solicitor Niall Head – Rapson
Making money from your design work can be done through fixed design fees, but far more lucrative can be to create a licensing agreement and to get regular royalties. Many designers have got questions about how to go about licensing and royalties. This pod cast was recorded as part of our Make It Pay event [...] Read more »
The Design Trust Guide to Start & Run a Successful Craft Business
I wrote this guide to help creative people get clarity and direction in how to start and run their own small craft business. It gives lots of practical advice and information, but also looks at the big picture. Setting up as a freelancer or sole trader can be really daunting. There are so many things [...] Read more »
Copy right & design right: an introduction and practicalities for designers & designer makers
Silvia Baumgart, the Own-It Programme Coordinator, presented at a Design Trust webinar in March 2012 about copyright and design rights, tips to protect yourself, and what you should do if somebody copies your design. Here are Silvia’s notes for the webinar. At the bottom of this (epic!) blog post you also will find some great [...] Read more »
The legal side of running a partnership
When you set up a partnership there are a couple of important legal considerations. Therefore it is essential that you get legal advice from a solicitor, who can help you with the following: Create a formal Partnership Agreement In legal terms called a ‘deed of partnership’, which will include: The purpose and objectives of the [...] Read more »
Advantages and disadvantages of creative partnerships
Partnerships can be a great way to share the workload or to combine complimentary skills and resources but – because they are often formed without an official contract – some caution is advisable too. In my experience as a business adviser this is one of the most emotional topics when things go wrong. To be [...] Read more »