Work Placement
My second day was mainly watching Amy, the Graphic Designer of the company, and seeing what she goes through day to day. Her day consists of looking through emails from clients, and either fixing up, or designing things that they want done. For example, Everatt’s Pharmacy wanted six different wall designs for each of the seasons and for Valentine’s & Christmas. The winter design came back to Amy as too Christmas-like so she gave me that task of redesigning a Winter wall design for them without making it look too Christmas-like. I chose bare brown trees, round white circles for snow, and some small blue snowflakes to make it look a little more like winter. The background was a gradient of light blue to light grey to show the weather would be cold. The work was sent off, and unfortunately, the client went for the Christmas-like design for winter.
We looked at a company called West London Electrics and they wanted a van design re-printed onto a new van, and we had to match the colours on screen to the vinyl colours in the warehouse. We used colour swatches of vinyls to try and match them up, it was a difficult task because there are so many different vinyl colours but we managed it in the end. This was a difficult task because normally, the vinyl colours are on the job sheet, but the job sheet had gone missing so we had to play it by eye.
I got feedback from the Mixtow Marine people that I redesigned their sticker for and all they wanted was the telephone numbers to be a little smaller, and it was good to go.
The Jet Washing company came back to us and the one thing they didn’t like about the design was the image that I designed for them. They wanted an outline of a man jet washing rather than an icon jet washing which was okay, but difficult to design. I changed it and sent it back to them and I am awaiting their reply - hopefully I will find out when I go back in on Tuesday 2nd.
I came up with a final design for Kim, James, and Amy’s business cards and will print them out on Tuesday 2nd to see my designs come to life in the studio.
I designed some signs for DESH Group - they wanted car park signs and office signs. Their car park signs were for visitors and for the staff members and the office signage was for the first floor as well as the ground floor.
The last thing I did was find out what typeface was used on a certain display, which was for OSRAM. I found out that the typeface was Helvetica Neue - I matched the fonts next to each other because all I had was a sheet of paper that had the text on, so it was quite hard to do. I then created an art board that said “Light is OSRAM” ready for printing out at a large scale.
James was again pleased with how quick I could come up with designs and find out which typefaces are what.
