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
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.
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