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Design House Production Of Long, Complex Documents
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In the experience of the experts on this forum, how should the design production process be run, according to reasonable or even best practice?
Would the senior designer simply be given all the data and a brief, and be expected to return a fully completed, perfect document ready for customer sign-off and printing prior to the deadline?
Would the design house use any QA checking throughout the process? If, for example, there are misspellings, grammatical errors, layout mistakes or big blunders like missed or misnumbered pages, should that be picked up by a proof reader or a sub-editor?
I am reminded that people who create documents are rarely able to pick up their own errors. But I am not sure whether the senior graphic designer is expected to be above making such errors.
If I supply a short-term contractor senior graphic designer to a design house, and my designer makes errors as outlined above, who is held accountable? Is the design house typically responsible for their own QA, proof reading, layout checking? Or is it up to the end-client to find any errors before signing off pre-press?
Interested to hear any and all observations. Thank you.