It’s standard practice for companies to state ownership of all employee work for the duration of employment, but you should check the contract you signed.

When I start work with a new client, I make it clear I will use any designs for self-promotion (i.e., in a portfolio or book). As you were paid such a meagre amount, I doubt your employer would begrudge you the use of designs to promote your skills.

Sorry to know of the ill health and your course.

My question is simple
(brief background)
about 6 years ago I studied a Design degree that took in all or most design fields, due to failing health i had to pull out of the degree after one year. In this time I achieved the highest marks ever recorded on the course but this achievement is openended.

(present)

Anyway years pass I have ability but no formal degree or paper to certify my talent. I recently started a 13+ week ‘back to work programme’ a government initiaitive. I was looking to get a placement within a thriving graphics studio but ended up working for the actual outsourced company that try to find placements and offer skills etc…

in the 13-14 weeks I have designed 4 graphic identities for the various programes and new ventures this company runs ironically about getting back to work I produced posters and helped with their website. I have used only my own photographs within the posters all the logos my own designs.

i am proud of the work I have produced , some all or most of the logos look like corporate identities with hidden meanings ect that communicate more the more they are viewed.

I was paid the standard automated £15 each week that is all, nothing more. I have had no proper briefs or consolations.

these identies are really strong the posters all my own work and of a high standard they have got them for next to nothing. I made up clever bylines that work so well with the graphics.

(My questions)

”Do I have any rights over the designs the logos especially, their future use or are they wholly the companies property? ”

what rights as a designer do I have, i Know photographers have rights over all their work so you clients have to pay for further prints.

I feel I am been taken advantaged of, I have even designed another very strong logo for a utility company owned by a boyfriend of a employee of the employment programme company of which am placed. All with no real clear brief or meetings with clients.

prior to me they said they had not advertisements or any graphic or artistic element within the company but now that I am coming to the end of my placement they dont seem to be willing to take me on full time or even partime It seems when my time runs out i will leave on the most part sqeezed dry of my design work with nothing to show for it but strong deigns that will enhance the company but atleast thats something positve

I enjoy the simplicity of your designs, i like the design that you settled on the best, but I dont like how it was mplemented in the web. That banner is way too big, and just SQUASHES it up in the corner… It does your elegant work NO justice. :D

To answer your question, it’s not necessary for a logo to literally define the business. It’s interesting that you see a mouse in the symbol. I didn’t get that.

I’d like to know a certain thing : Is it very important to always have a logo that defines the kind of business the company does?

for example the ” G ” here appealed to me as a shape of a mouse as well as a “G”.
and the tag connecting to your world went perfectly with it.