Identify the Workflow Need
Address the burden of a lengthy commissioning document.
Strategic Leadership
Work-for-hire and Illustrator Agreements
ASCD Creative
Challenge
ASCD Creative needed a shorter work-for-hire and illustrator agreement process that addressed the interests of the organization and the creatives it commissioned.
Creative Strategy
Working with the legal team, the project condensed lengthy forms into a more usable document. The design-management contribution focused on clarity and workflow while legal colleagues provided the agreement expertise.
My Role
Design Management and collaboration with the legal team.
Collaborators
ASCD legal team and ASCD Creative.
The Approach
Insight into ideas.
Ideas into experience.
Collaborate Across Disciplines
Work with legal colleagues to develop a condensed form.
Make the Tool Usable
Organize the agreement for practical use within the creative commissioning process.
Selected Creative
A closer look
at the work.
The Result
Creative with
a clear purpose.
The project delivered a condensed agreement form for commissioning creative work. The original project account describes its use over many years before a later transition to an online tool.