Working in Australia
While traveling in Australia, Bowe was contracted for six months to work at a print and sign shop. This family business has been in business for over 15 years creating graphics and manufacturing signs for the local Perth, Western Australia area. Located 10 minutes from Coogee Beach, I was thrilled to start work there!
Using Corel Draw for vector illustrations and Windows XP, I had to adapt quickly to keep up with the pace of the workshop. Being in charge of the print shop had me liaising with the clientele via telephone, email, and face to face. I met a lot of wonderful people during the course of my work contract. My responsibilities included quoting jobs, taking orders, taking payments, logo designs, designs for print including everything from a business card, to a billboard, to a vehicle wrap, to a flag-banner. Working with different types of vinyls proved to be very interesting and the shop owner was a skillful lad that showed me how to manipulate the materials for different jobs.
Because of my background in web design and development I was in charge of updating the Appealing Signs website. This meant updating their code with SEO friendly meta-tags, and keywords. To make the modifications to their site I learned the Concrete5 CMS.
Using Corel Draw for the first time was a bit of a struggle for me. Although a robust vector program it lacks some of the perks of using Illustrator. I went to work early the first couple of weeks to practice and found it easy to use after a couple of intense days of frustration. Working with an excellent team, I would ask my colleagues “Hey, how do you…” and towards the end of my contract, was being asked by my colleagues the same questions I started with.
Below are some of the projects I was a part of while working in Australia. I am very thankful for the opportunity to have worked as a graphic designer while on a working holiday in Australia. It allowed me to further develop my design skills and allowed me to see the rest of the beautiful country before returning home again.
Tools used during my work contract include CoreDraw, Concrete5, HTML, CSS, CSS3, Illustrator, Photoshop, WordPress, PHP, SEO friendly code, JavaScript and JQuery.
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