Following on from our recent successful bid for “Effective Support for the Journey from Worklessness to Sustained Employment in Sutton”, we have been putting our students to work in more ways than one. We have to help people on their journey to work establishing good partnership links, paperwork and training programmes in the process.
A pack has been put together by Jan & Jo that comes under the title ‘STEPS – Sutton and Training Employment Providers’. The pack includes a series of individual inserts from a range of local partners who are all working together to help those seeking work to become aware of the many ‘Ways to Work’. It focuses on Advice, Employment and Training options and opportunities on the path to gaining employment.
AS Level Graphic Design students were offered the opportunity of working and inputting on this live brief to help them gain an insight into how a real job progresses. 7 students took part. This showed great enthusiasm and dedication from these students as they were working on their final exam projects at the same time and the workshops were extra to their normal class times.
It was felt that the pack needed to be user friendly, engaging, interesting and accessible to a wide variety of people. It also needed to have a professional feel without being too wordy.
Initially the students each designed some STEPS logo options and the best solution was selected. They then worked on colour choices, possible content and suitable quotations to include. Much consideration was given to the layout and folding methods of the pack and the inserts. The idea of a game of snakes and ladders relating to finding work was included to lighten the feel of the pack. The digital artwork needed to be set up in the correct colours for print, images and logo elements in the correct file formats, with cutter guides, mock ups and proofs supplied for the printer to work from.
I hope you will agree that the students have done a fantastic job. We would like to thank them so much for giving their time, creative and technical skills plus enthusiasm to this project.
Please ask Jan if you would like a pack. They will be going out to all of the partners in the Ways to Work project together with libraries and other suitable distribution points. We will also be looking to others who may want to place additional inserts. Carshalton College has indicated interest for their Apprenticeship programme. If you think of other suitable contributors, let us know.
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