design collectives - how to
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- kyl3
any success stories? How do you bill and pay each contributor. Wassup with the what's up? Anyone?
- blastofv0
I haven't been involved with any traditional 'collective' situations, but I've worked on a thousand projects where either a business guy or a designer in my network has a project and needs various outside people to make it work for their client.
It's always a project manager in the lead (the person who brought the project in), and then a pre-arranged percentage or hard dollar amount for each contributor based on their level of involvement. And there's always a contract/agreement, at least in email format.
- kyl30
cool thanks, I'm curious because I'd like to gather a small network of people with complimentary skills sets to maybe work on projects. More like developers that could handle the Backend stuff that I'm not particularly skilled/interested in. Or other designers when work loads get thick.
So maybe like a crew of freelancers then with a PM. Anyways just contemplating diff. senarios. Thanks!
- kyl30
Anyone know how freestyle collective or brand new school(not sure if they're a collective) set their structure up?
- CFish0
Not sure about the way they're set up but we just project manage and get our hands dirty when we need to. We have a bunch of freelancers from graphic designers to stone masons and call on each when appropriate.
We always get them to quote up front and issue them with a purchase order before the work starts.
Then we just mark it up! and make sure the project gets completed on time and on budget.
- Rand0
stone masons? sweet!
- frankiefido0
I highly recommend reading this book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product…
It'll give you a lot of the info you seek, and then some.
- kyl30
haha, excellent thanks. So a bunch of freelancers, a PM that marks up the bids of said freelancers, and a collective portfolio.
- kyl30
thanks frank!
- madirish0
kyl3-
while not what i think of as a 'collective' in a classic sense, your description is exactly what i do now, and have been for a couple years. it works in various fashions, but basically i assemble teams of appropriate skill compliments/overlap for various projects and lead them as a participant.
in the US anyway, there is no offical 'collective' status i have ever been able to find to serve as a blanket for anyone you include. in other countries, yes. basically, everyone works as a sub to me and i file appropriate documents when it comes to uncle sam. i wish, wish, wish that i could set up something outside of the corporate tax model that would represent this, but alas, the US tax structure does not allow for this..... that i have found, that is.
- kyl30
arrgh, another strike for the US, bastards!
thanks Madirish