Another resource is the annual survey done by Aquent and AIGA.

If you work 40 hours a week, an hourly rate is easy to figure out:
$10,000/year is around
$5.00/hour at 40hrs/week

Some of you have had questions about how much to charge for projects.

One place to start is with this book, published every year: Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines

Of special value are the sample contracts.

Note that as students you may have to adjust the rates because of experience, quality, and speed.

It's sold at Amazon too and should be in the library.

New files for you to look at:
expressive_type_image_list.txt
expressive_type_lite.pdf
history_02.pdf

Digital Kitchen will talk at MCC 505, Oct 3, Noon-1:00.

Noontime Lecture Series: Digital Kitchen on Oct 3, Noon-1:00. Should be a good show. You should all go.

Lecture tomorrow (Wed, 26 September 2007) at noon with Hotie, Room 108.

This is a flash timeline of 20th century typography from some place called Tyne Metropolitan college in England.

Given the subject matter I wish it was a little more visual but it seems like a nice collection of major milestones if nothing else.

Click "explore the interactive timeline" in the left hand navigation bar to see it.

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