sign maker
Sign makers design and develop signs for a variety of uses such as flyers, traffic signs, billboards and business signs. They use different materials and techniques and if necessary they install the sign on site. Furthermore they also perform maintenance and repairs.
Also called: traffic sign maker, signboard writer, sign maintenance worker, sign writer, sign installer, signboard maker, road sign installer, advertising sign maker
- 14
- essential skills
- 16
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
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Essential skills
14- apply numeracy skills
- collaborate with designers
- conduct research on trends in design
- design package
- develop creative ideas
- develop design concept
- develop design ideas cooperatively
- develop design plans
- draw design sketches
- graphic design
- monitor developments in technology used for design
- perform quality control of design during a run
- plan new packaging designs
- present artistic design proposals
Optional skills
16- collaborate in the development of marketing strategies
- cut glass
- follow safety procedures when working at heights
- maintenance of printing machines
- manipulate glass
- operate monogram-printing device
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- prepare equipment for textile printing
- printing media
- printing techniques
- process man-made fibres
- supervise work on design planning
- translate artistic concepts to technical designs
- translate requirements into visual design
- types of moulded fibres
- types of paint
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