Things that influence the design process

Copyright: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The copy right law gives the creator of dramatic, musical and artistic work all the rights to control the ways in which their material may be used. This basically means their work is covered from being copied, adapting, issuing, renting or lending to the public. Also in many cases the creator will be recognized for the work that he or she has created. Copyright arises when an individual or organization creates a work, and applies to a work if it is regarded as original, and exhibits a degree of labour, skill or judgment.
Copyright is related to the independent creation rather than the idea behind the creation. Which means that somebody can create something of the same idea, but not create something that is the same or identicle. For example somebody could create the same idea of a book, but not copy the content that is in the book.
Source: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy.htm

Moral Rights: Moral Rights exist alongside Copyright. The Moral Rights are, The right to be identified as the author of a work, the right to object to derogatory treatment of your work, treatment is derogatory if it amounts to mutilation of the work or is otherwise prejudicial to the honour or reputation of the author. This may arise if the artwork is subjected to addition, deletion, alteration or adaptation for example, the right not to have an artwork falsely attributed to you, the right of privacy in certain photographs and films commissioned for private and domestic purposes. The Moral Rights belong to the creator of the work, the rights can be passes onto the designers estate after death, but cannot be passed onto another person.
Source: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-otherprotect/c-moralrights.htm

Ethical Considertations in Design: Whilst some designers focus on equality, others just cause offence and break the law. Designs that are undesirable are when they are seen as being socially unnacceptable. Another thing that can cross the social barrier is where fast food for example market their food for children no matter how unhealthy it may be. Another ethical consideration can include enviromental resources used in the process of design, if the product can show its friendly to the enviroment it may give it a boost.
Source: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/559/02/

Intellectual Property: intellectual property is all about the legal protection of an idea. Its the area of law that enables designers, innovators and other creative people to protect and exploit their work and to prevent misappropriation by others. Intellectual property protection involves granting exclusivity to the rights holder in relation to protected property. This can stop third parties from copying, manufacturing or adopting features of the relevant designs or technology. But if you dont get this protection you could leave your self open to anybody copying your idea or creation.
Source: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/

Sales of Goods: The Sale of Good Act 1979  protects the buyer in four ways:
- The Seller must have the right to sell the goods
- Goods sold by description must correspond to the description
- Goods must be of satisfactory quality.
- Goods sold by sample the goods must correspond to the sample in quality.
Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/54

Employement: Employement Act 2008. Equality Act 2010. This is a legal binding contract that is set when the terms and conditions are agreed on the job. This can be agreed in a few different ways such as verbal or in writing. This is something that is entitled to every emploee once starting a job, this should be in the first two months. You would have an ongoing contract of employment if you were emplyed by a company or person rather than as a freelance designer.
Source: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/index.htm

Health and Safety: Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. You have rights as an employee to work in a safe and healthy enviroment at work, this is given to you by law. Because this is given you by law it cant really be changed by the employer. The main rights are.
- If you have any concerns about your safety, you can leave your work area without being disiplined.
- You can tell your employer about any health concerns you have.
- Provide you with your safety equipment that is needed, free of charge.
- To make sure all the health risks are controlled properly.
you also usually have to work in a safe manner and not endanger yourself or others as an employee.  in design you need regulare breaks from screen if you are working on computers.  You also need to be health and safety conscious in the studio and in production and manufacture of you are dealing with scalpels or other sharp implements.
Source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/

Working as a team

Working as a team plays a big part in the work place, you have to understand and be able to compromise with your work mates, and they do you.
One of the agreements i have had to do at work is agreeing on the work that i am going to undertake in that day, and compromise what i will and wont get done in that working day because your a required to work to deadlines.
You always have to be open to others input and ideas, i do this when I'm designing i always ask my colleagues for there advice on my design. I ask them if they was to change anything to it what it would be and why? This doesn't mean i always have to change the design but its good to have varieties of ideas.
We are required to give helpful support and feedback to our workmates, a good example of this in our work place is when something is printed for not just one person to check that the print is okay to finish and send out, but for one or two of the other people to have a look at the print and make sure there is no change in colour, or any scuffs or marks. This is very helpful support.
Because i am the apprentice i am assigned the role of being the 'Main' finisher of all banners and all of the cutting up, so a normal day for me is to be assigned of cutting all the banners up, finishing them and then sending them out on the courier. I also am required to keep the workplace tidy, i do this by just tidying up after myself and trying not to leave things out.

I think at the workplace i always give my best performance day in day out, this is because if i go to work and don't work my hardest the work wouldn't get finished and sent out so we would have unhappy customers. I think this performance is the same throughout production, we are all required to do the same thing all day, we know whats required for the day and you always aim to achieve to finish the day and dig in to the next days work so we can bring more jobs in for the company and make more time for new jobs.

The ways we verbally communicate is to tell each other what needs doing for the day, this helps us decide what jobs need doing first and who will be doing them, we also ask each other to load machines up with different material being verbal with each other is vital here so that we can tell each other what material we need on the machine and which machine will need to be used. If we are to communicate non verbally we would maybe right down on a piece of paper what design has been printed on which machine and what material was used. This is so if we have to go back to that design we would always use the same machine and material so we don't get a mix in colours or finish on the design or print.

Since staring my apprenticeship at Victory Design, i have always appreciated my other colleagues positions because i have always known the my Manager Neil is the highest person in Production, so if i have ever need any help with anything i always approach Neil first, or if i want to book a holiday off or talk to anyone about anything i always approach Neil first. But if Neil is away or very busy Jason is the next in command, id then treat Jay the exact same as Neil, the only difference is that Jason cant sign my holidays off id have to wait for Neil to be back in work.

At work you have to constantly have to compromise because even though you have work set for the day and you know what you have to have achieved, there can always be rush jobs coming down into production or some sort of design that needs doing urgent. So this can either mean trying to rush other jobs through by getting them done as soon as possible. It can mean working all the way through your breaks so the work gets done or even doing overtime. But doing this makes the company run more freely and makes sure that all our team goals are achieved.

How Design has evolved -

Vehicle graphics come from the days of horse and cart when they painted the company name on their vehicle to advertise themselves. This was done by skilled crafts men who did this for a living.  Designs were limited to certain colours and more traditional fonts.

These designs continued with companies realising the real potential of the use for advertising in the 1950, so they were far more common and detailed. Vehicles started to be wrapped in the 1990s.  This process was new but it took a lot of hours to apply as each colour because had to be applied separately and they couldn’t use photographic images yet.With material and digital technology now any image of any size can be put on a vehicle.  Because of new processes now the vinyl wont stick and make air bubbles in the vinyl until it has been squeegeed on properly.  This is really popular with businesses and is a very effective way to advertise themselves.  It also means that logos and designs can be reproduced exactly.

Trends in Veichles -

3D Graphics,

Because things have gone a lot further with materials and technology, trends can make a veichle look like something else, like a street scene or even a sandwich. Food companies tend to make the graphic a piece of food from their company and incorporate their logo into the design

Wrapping also allows vehicles to be transformed into the appearance of other vehicles.  Like transforming 4x4 into older models of vans and wagons.

Veichles can also be wrapped and made into fine are pieces, this is a lot easier because images, logos and colours can just be scanned in or designed very easily. Then this is printed onto the vinyl wrapped and applied.

There is also a trend where you wrap large veichles, you wrap them with very memorable images which can be seen my all angles on this veichle so this means it doesnt matter if your stuck behind the veichle because you can still see the image. This process is possible due to having a lot larger printers to print the large print to a good standard.