comp before contract
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- thompson0
yeah...you shouldn't comp something to win a contract. Hopefully your portfolio can convince the client to use you. The danger in pre-comping is showing them an idea they can pitch to some other designer if your bid is too high. And of course getting the project pinned down too early.
Before we do any work on a project we take an initial payment and cancellation fee.however, there was a rare occasion when a client of ours was courting several design firms and had each of them (me included) comp postcard and concept for an upcoming piece. But they were clear about the arrangment with other design firms and that it was a sort of competition. And in that case it was a big job and big client that we wanted to win over (we also were about 95% sure they wouldn't screw us).