Design Credit ON Website?
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- mikotondria30
Ever buy a car without a logo badge front and center ? Look down right now - look, who made your monitor ? We tolerate the 'intrusion' of design and manufacture credit on a million things. Not putting your design credit on a site, to my mind, is somewhat analgous to blurring or pixellating out a brand mark on a documentary - it almost implies a negative connection between the main client and whomever they've chosen to work with to get a web presence together. If they really don't think that it will enhance their brand at all, then of course, it'll never be a deal breaker, slip it in the code - but then, really, only other designers will see it. We need to take every opportunity to promote our industry and ourselves as visible value-adders and essential, high profile partners; a good firm brings so much more than a pretty design to a client relationship; strategy and brand creation and handling - you know how much extra thought and creativity and imagination you expend on some projects - you make visible and tangible what were previously just a loose set of concepts. You literally weave some clients' dreams out of golden thread in front of them and they love you for it.
Sometimes :)- The difference being I see my services as a white-label product rather than a brand.orrinward2