Location:

Student Union Building, B109
(across from the General Office)

250-721-8354

Our Purpose:

The UVSS Graphics Department provides design services to the UVSS board, Excluded executives, UVSS Communications, all of the UVSS businesses, and the Advocacy and Affiliate groups.

Staff:

  • Art Director/ Graphics Manager
    Brent Parrish (artdir@uvss.ca)
  • Art Coordinator
    Leanne Weflen (artcoord@uvss.ca)
  • Marketing and Events Coordinator
    Lara Costa (marketing@uvss.ca)
  • Graphics Office Assistant
    Ali Stein-Gagnon (graphic@uvic.ca)

Work Orders

Before entering your first work order, take a few minutes to watch the work order training video to better acquaint yourself with the job request process. If you still have questions, please reach our to the Art Director and they’ll be glad to walk you through the process.

Using the Graphics Work Order Spreadsheet

  1. Visit the WO spreadsheet
  2. Check the last project ORDER # under the NEW WORK ORDERS heading and make your number the next one.
  3. Enter a PROJECT NAME, date submitted, date due etc…
  4. STATUS is usually entered by Graphics staff, so it can be left blank in your initial order.  We’ll update it with the following status: the name of the person who will be working on the project (Art Dir, Art Coord, MEC), in progress, awaiting info, proofing/printing, done, or hold.
  5. Enter the Department charge code, contact name and contact email
  6. PROJECT Description: Enter a brief description of what you would like
  7. CREATIVE CONCEPT: Ideas on the look of the poster, use existing look etc.
  8. COPY:  Text that will be used for the ad (word for word).  You can link to a Google Document if there’s a lot of writing.
  9. PRINT MEDIA TYPES:  Enter in the list of the different items you’d need to have printed (11×17 posters, bookmarks, business cards etc…
  10. DIGITAL MEDIA TYPES:  Social media post, Instagram Story, Digicaster, Website Slider etc…
  11. NUMBER OF COPIES:  Tell us how many of your project you would like printed
  12. LOGOS: i.e. UVSS, The SUB, Zap Copy etc…
  13. WEB URL:  What URL should be added to the copy or linked (Web, social media, QR code)
  14. Additional Info:
  15. If your project has a drawing or you need to explain the work order in person fill in the work order first and then contact Graphics.
  16. Check over your work order and if you forgot to add something just go back and add. If your addition was a couple of days since submitting, then let Graphics know by adding a note in column “R”.

Poster Runs

If you have a poster you’d like put up in the SUB and around campus, you can order that service from Zap Copy.  The poster run is completed by the Graphics Office Assistant multiple times per week usually every 2-3 days.

All posters must be date stamped with the official UVSS stamp from the Info Booth or graphics before being posted on campus.  

Note: All posters on campus (with some exceptions in the SUB) must follow UVic’s Poster Policy.

SUB Sign

Booking for the SUB sign can be done at uvss.ca/sub-sign-bookings.  Please fill out the SUB Sign form and email it to graphic@uvic.ca.

Guidelines:

  • Maximum three lines (subject to availability).
  • 30 Characters per line including spaces.
  • Please keep messages short (one line if possible) It is easier for us to accommodate all requests when the messages are shorter.