Question for experienced print designers

• AVAVA0

  Great responses guys, thank you.

  Gucci - Per page is wise, will bear that in mind.

  Capn_ron - Good questions, thank you.

  • They would supply all shots from the shoot and should be ready to use - although it is worth me asking if they are expecting me to retouch the shots - just incase they view that as part of the job I suppose...

  • They have mentioned a budget - as always this is not the true budget - but they have asked me to quote in any case, as their budget may not be realistic etc...

  • Not sure if this includes printing - I bloody hope not!

  • I would say I am intermediate Indesign user, but not very fast, I am a bit precious on getting the designs 'just so' etc.. so that may slow me down also...

  • 45 pages is a fair size, so I think I will quote per page I guess.

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• capn_ron0

  There are a lot of questions you would need to answer before this is a quotable job. Are you going to be receiving photos from them, or do you have to art direct photo shoots as well. You may want to ask them if they have a budget already in mind. Other questions are if that budget includes printing. Are the products all shot already, or do you need to art direct studio photography?

  These are just a few of the questions I would be asking. The other part that makes it hard to estimate time is on how fast you are in InDesign. Once you have a look and style sheets, it goes pretty quick, but those take time to design and make look good. 45 pages is a good sized book and you don't want to short yourself, so I would ask those questions and then overestimate the time you think it will take to do the job.

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• Gucci0

  I can't spend too much time writing, but as a word of advice, If I were to quote the project, I'd do it per page.

  That way if the page count fluctuates you're covered.

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• AVAVA

  Hello chaps and chapettes,

  If you are used to working with fashion brands, I wanted to pick your brains...

  I've been asked to quote for designing a 45 page fashion catalogue, and although I have got print experience, I have never done a large catalogue for a high fashion brand, so my questions are:

  a. In your experience how long would something like this take a designer to design all the elements together for final artwork?

  b. What kind of budget (excluding the print) would you roughly estimate for a job like this.

  thanks in advance.

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