Icon development budget
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- d_rek
Can anyone give me a rough estimate / proposal for iconography development / production?
Job is for 8 icons to be reproduced in print and web.
Budget (in hours) should include:
-Research
-Sketching / Exploration
-Revision / Rounds
-Final ProductionI have a number in my head but want to propose a figure that is reasonable / accurate.
Thanks in advance!
- akrokdesign0
sounds like it would be a high number.
- digdre0
email iconwerk.de about an estimate? :p
- d_rek0
Anyone? A little help here would be much appreciated...
I sent out a few emails but nothing back yet.
- OSFA0
hmmm tricky, never dealt with specific icon development...
- Corvo20
being icons doesn't make it any different, does it? so my guess is your usual fee per hour * number of hours it takes to get it done should be adequate. You don't even have to buy a typeface or anything so it's definitely a flat rate.
- Corvo20
Of course, if you have recently bought some software/hardware for your work you should add a few extra bucks on every gig, estimating how many gigs you'll have in that specific software/hardware maximum amortization period (there are IRS tables for this). To get that extra number you divide the value of that product by the numbers of clients you expect in that given period.
For example, you recently bought a spiffy, new A3 printer. It costed you (say) 400. Printers can have (say) 2 years of amortization period max in IRS - usually relates to product life-span. In 2 years you estimate you'll pull a given number of gigs (say 50). You then divide 400/50 and add 8 in every gig within that period.
You can do this with pencils, ink-cartridges, etc. Your hourly rate should reflect your investment or otherwise charge a flat rate and have a "production" fee that encompasses all this on the side.
- Corvo20
I once dated an accountancy girl for two months. That was the most proficuous time I have ever spent in my entire life.
- Corvo20
Ok. no prob. But you almost make it sound like there is a special fee for icon developers.
Maybe I'm over my head...
- d_rek0
Nah, was just looking for someone who had maybe done icon development before to give me a basic / rough breakdown of the kind of hours they might invest into such a project.
- acrossthesea0
I think it really depends on the type of icons... are we talking about something like the firefox logo or something simple and flat?
- airey0
i've done a it of it for a few online tools for a the state pharmacy guild. email me if you need someone!
- d_rek0
airey,
check yo emailz. :D
- d_rek0
_niko,
I agree. I am just trying to present to my superiors a decent arguement for a bigger budget. Their tendency is to _always_ lowball a project and I don't want to get stuck trying to hack out 8 icons with a 20 hour budget.
- _niko0
option 1) charge them 80 hours x hourly rate
option 2) download iconset from smashingmag, mark up 1000% call it a day.