Archive for July 2014
It's been a while since I posted. Been busy with my last semester's finals and now doing practical/internship at a design/print shop.
Just a short post bout what I feel about this practical. The place I work at is a printing/design shop...anything from coupons to banners, books to t-shirts. So I've been assigned as a designer. There's two sections; one works at the counter up front, complete with numbering system and all that (they deal with quick jobs like business cards, posters and various other printing/design requests), the other reports to the marketing department (mostly corporate jobs or jobs that is needed in high quantity).
I am stationed at the marketing section upstairs, quiet and peaceful compared to the bustle of the counter downstairs. The designers under marketing, naturally, have more customers than marketing, so we under marketing mostly work at our own pace. Though sometimes the guys at the counters send some customers to us when they are getting too busy.
So, omitting other details that one might find when they read this, I'm just gonna jump straight to the point of why I post this; the customers.
The thing that was peculiar to me was the customer's skill levels. There's this one time when a customer asked me to type their letter. I was kinda surprised that there are still people who don't know about typing letters. And then there's one job where I made stickers for a packaging. And It was soooooo simple. Like, simple wording, some pictures, and background, done. And then there's this guy who is trying to print some words on a piece of paper. Probably for a food stall of his. It's just a blank piece of A4 paper with "SUP EKOR" smack in the middle of it. No designs, no fancy typeface. He came all this way and pay the shop for this super simple design that my sister could probably make.
Just a short post bout what I feel about this practical. The place I work at is a printing/design shop...anything from coupons to banners, books to t-shirts. So I've been assigned as a designer. There's two sections; one works at the counter up front, complete with numbering system and all that (they deal with quick jobs like business cards, posters and various other printing/design requests), the other reports to the marketing department (mostly corporate jobs or jobs that is needed in high quantity).
I am stationed at the marketing section upstairs, quiet and peaceful compared to the bustle of the counter downstairs. The designers under marketing, naturally, have more customers than marketing, so we under marketing mostly work at our own pace. Though sometimes the guys at the counters send some customers to us when they are getting too busy.
So, omitting other details that one might find when they read this, I'm just gonna jump straight to the point of why I post this; the customers.
My understanding, their understanding.
But then, it's due to ignorance on my part. Regarding typing letters, there quite a number of people (usually old people) who have very little knowledge on IT. I's just I'm just used to seeing people knowing computer basics.Regarding the stickers and food stall signs, I always fail to tell my self that I'm in a graphic design course. I've gone through a lot to study how to do all that. What seems like a simple job to me, is something else for them. There's a reason graphic designers exist, no?
Though I'm not saying all my request are of the nature I stated above. Some do have some knowledge on it, some might be even better than me.
Well that's all I wanna say for now (and as a reminder for myself). It's easy for you, doesn't mean it's easy for anyone else. Some people have knowledge of it, some don't. If all of society know how to do everything, there won't be much jobs around, will they?
Graphic design practical/Internship: The first few weeks
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