Graduates of this qualification will be able to:
- Apply knowledge of workplace health and safety to signmaking.
- Design signs using knowledge of layout, typography and colour.
- Create and manipulate graphic files for sign production using software.
- Manufacture signs and graphics using a range of signmaking materials.
- Fabricate a range of materials and apply vector cut graphics to produce signs using signmaking tools, machinery and equipment.
- Apply films to a variety of flat, textured, simple and compound curved surfaces.
- Produce signs using a range of surface preparation, layout and painting techniques.
- Produce and laminate printed output for sign production using digital print technology.
- Produce illuminated signs using electrical lighting systems.
- Install a variety of interior and exterior sign types safely using knowledge of fixings and fastenings, building substrates, waterproofing envelopes and working at heights.
Graduates of the Three-Dimensional Sign Fabrication strand will also be able to:
- Fabricate three-dimensional signs.
