Freelancer vs. Industrial Design Agency?
Hiring a Freelancer vs. Industrial Design Agency
Fabio is an Industrial Designer and the founder of Makers Department. Before setting up Makers Department with his business partner at the time, he used to work as a freelancer. In this video and blog he talks about the key differences between hiring a freelancer vs industrial design agency based on his experience.
In summary:
Hiring a freelancer can be a great way of getting someone specialist in a specific field to help you out in a temporary project that you may have. This means that you don't have to change a lot about your structure; you basically just add someone to your current team or maybe just partner with this freelancer for some time.
Hiring an agency is basically a setup where you engage with another company. The great thing about hiring an agency is that you're actually hiring a team. Each person will have a different background and a different way of seeing the world and a different set of skills. This combination of skills is what makes an agency special.
Hiring a team like us means that on a project we will bounce ideas between us, and we will definitely have a more well-thought-through range of ideas to present.
Another positive factor about hiring an agency is that agencies are set up for longevity and stability, whereas freelancers are just individuals and they may change their minds about what they do in life. They may decide to take a holiday or a break, whereas if someone goes on holiday in an agency, someone else will take over the work.
A company like us is also well connected in terms of relationships with suppliers and manufacturers, so we can help put you in touch with the right people and reduce the trial-and-error you would otherwise have to do in finding someone to manufacture your product.
Makers Department is a design agency; however, we are a very small team. This means that if you hire Makers Department for a job, you end up working with pretty much everyone in the team. If you hire us, you can take advantage of Fabio’s personal experience as a freelancer, but you can also take advantage of the experience of the team, for example, Amit, our design engineer who has worked in Shenzhen in China directly with manufacturers.
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