Some clients disregard the chargeability of design services. This could be due to the fact that designing is not necessarily a tangible item. Or maybe clients expect the costs to be rolled into the price of the product.

In any case, graphic design is not a free, unless you have family member willing to do so. Graphic design takes time, takes experience (i.e. portfolio), and requires quality communication. This service lives and breathes by the logic, ‘you get what you pay for’. If a service provider does not charge much for design work, then they probably do not have the experience or resources they need. More than that, if a client decides to be cheap about design work, good designers will ultimately put those projects on a ’back-burner’, and/or not spend a lot of quality time on the creation, and/or allow only a certain numbers of changes, etc.  

It’s unfortunate that these actions can happen, but it is the truth. Maintaining competitiveness is absolutely appropriate, but trying to get away with something for nothing in the design world is ridiculous and can be deemed disrespectful.

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