Step 1: How do we start? If you're a new client, we'll start with a meeting, either in person or by phone. We have found that asking good questions and listening carefully makes it easier to create great work that answers our clients' needs.

Step 2: What will it cost? Zurek Design will estimate your job based on the information gathered from our initial contact. Complex jobs will be accompanied by a production schedule that will outline all phases of the project, including deadlines for each stage.

For more information on how we estimate our work, read How does Zurek Design charge and bill?

Step 3: Then what? After an estimate is accepted, we assemble teams of professionals who are selected to meet the needs of each client's project. These teams might include one or more designers, a writer, a photographer, a public relations professional, a printer, a sign company, a web site development firm or an Internet hosting service.

We listen to you first, then work to build a team, so you can be assured that the people working on your project will get the job done right.

Step 4: When and how will I see your ideas? Each project is unique, and often information must be gathered before designs can be presented, but we usually submit our first layout ideas about a week after we've received all the information needed to create a design.

We have a variety of ways of showing you our work. Designs can be emailed, posted on a private web page, uploaded to an FTP site or printed and mailed. Email and web postings are fastest, of course!

Step 5: How does it wrap up? Once you are completely satisfied, we take whatever step is necessary to bring your job to completion. That might mean preparing it for a printer, uploading it to a web site, or creating various formats for logo files. It might mean sending your ad to a publication, or your art to a billboard company. Whatever it takes, we'll make sure your final design gets where it needs to be, and we'll be there to respond to any questions that come up during production.

Billing: Existing clients are billed on project completion and bills are payable within 15 days of receipt. For more information on billing, read here.

You own your work. Zurek Design gives you rights to all final artwork we produce for you once it's paid for, so you can reuse it as many times as you'd like. We keep electronic archives of our design projects, so if you need a design that we produced for you in the past, we're happy to resend it to you.