The Association’s purpose is to provide its members with support in matters related to their profession.

To that end, the Swiss Design Association provides a number of basic documents that help define collaboration between designers and their customers. The following documents can be ordered for a token sum using the order form:

1. General business conditions (Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen, AGB) (order) in German or French, in PDF or in printed format. Fr. 50.00 for members, Fr. 240.00 for non-members.

2. Licence Agreement (order) in German, French or English. in PDF or in printed format. Fr. 20.00 for members, Fr. 150.00 for non-members.

3. Non-disclosure agreement (order) in German or French, in PDF or in printed format. Fr. 20.00 for members, Fr. 150.00 for non-members.

Answers to other questions may be found in the books listed below:

• Rido Busse, Was kostet Design? Kostenkalkulation für Designer und ihre Auftraggeber, Frankfurt a.M.: Verlag form, 1998
• Wolfgang Maassen and Margarete May, Designers‘ Contract - Vertragsmuster, Formulare und Musterbriefe für selbständige Designer (book and CD-ROM), Dusseldorf: Pyramide Verlag, 2000
• Wolfgang Maassen (ed.), Designers’ Manual – Basiswissen für selbständige Designer, Dusseldorf: Pyramide Verlag, 2000
• Wolfgang Maassen, Designers’ Calculator – Kalkulationshilfen zur Berrechnung von Designhonoraren (book and CD-ROM), Dusseldorf: Pyramide Verlag, 2002

The above books can be ordered from the following address:

Hochparterre Bücher
Gasometerstrasse 28, 8005 Zürich
Tel. 041 271 25 00
www.hochparterre-buecher.ch
info@hochparterre-buecher.ch