Chapter II.
We’ve been waiting all year to talk about this. The Fee Proposal.
The way you first set out your fees sets the tone for everything that follows. When this part of a project is loose or unclear, small misunderstandings can be there from beginning to end and are often difficult to overcome. Through many conversations with other designers, it became clear that, regardless of project size or experience, we are all facing a lot of the same obstacles.
Sharon began to pull together the essential caveats that needed to be included, details that are often overlooked but hold everything in place.
This document sits alongside your legal contract (never in place of it). Legal language has to be precise, but we find that it is often skimmed through by the client. The Fee Proposal lifts out the same commitments and sets them down in clear, considered terms, so a client can fully absorb what is being agreed.
"In true Sharon and Lauren style, we never wanted to create a typical fee proposal template"
Behind our resources
Each template comes with notes, explanations, copy and guidance, and in the supporting video workshops we walk you through the structure, the language, customisations and the design so that every page makes sense. The design world can often feel like a closed book, and these resources are exactly what we wished existed but couldn't find.
What sits inside these templates goes far beyond layout. The content is built from research, real projects and conversations with designers, the kind of knowledge you cannot find anywhere else online.
There are no filler pages, no placeholder text, no vague headings. Everything is considered and everything has a reason to be there.
There is one design language running through the collection. A single, timeless, editorial style that you can adapt to your own colours, typefaces and projects. The writing, the grids, the visual hierarchy all feel closer to a publication than a standard template.
We use the same example client and project across all of our documents so an introduction, proposals, client-facing presentations, schedules and completion all sit within one story, making customising for your own studio seamless.
Every part of these documents comes from us: the structure, the writing, the layouts, the example client and project, the references, the video workshops. We know them down to the last, finest detail; each page has been developed and refined in our own studio. They are there to be used again and again in yours, across each new project.
