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Drawing Office - Cartographic & Graphic Services

The Drawing Office is a School of Geography facility offering specialist services to aid all our academic staff in their research, academic publication and teaching. We are always happy to discuss individual requirements.

Our range of services include:

Professional Cartography

- includes location maps, catchment maps, field drawings

Graphs, Diagrams & Illustrations

- from raw data & hard copies to visualisation of ideas - includes readable Tilia charts

Graphic Design

Posters - conference poster presentations, promotional display material (e.g. Open Days) and advertising (e.g. Masters Courses)
Exhibitions
Leaflets/Flyers - design of glossy gatefold leaflets for promotional use (we liaise with printers)
Organizational Conference Material - promotional posters, programmes, abstracts, direction signage, lunch tickets, logos
Typesetting & Desk Top Publishing (DTP) - books, monographs and reports (short runs printed in-house)

GIS (Arc)

- data downloading - interactive digital map creation - final map production to publication standard

PowerPoint / Slide Presentations

- preparation of artwork for good projection (including animation effects)

Poster printing up to A0

- please check for availability and compatible file formats

Scanning

- includes material for WebCT and PowerPoint

Service Provision - the Drawing Office offers a wide range of useful services:

Comb Binding
Thermal Binding
Laminating - up to A3 (total encapsulation of item)
B&W laser printing (limited quantity) - up to A4 (plus OHTs)
Colour laser printing (limited quantity) - up to A4 (plus OHTs)
Display board loans - portable A1 boards that link together (please book early)
Provision of materials for teaching - includes tracing paper, graph paper, overhead transparencies, OHT pens
Provision of equipment for teaching - includes stereoscopes, aerial photos, planimeters, curvimetres

Access to the Map Collection (facilitated through the Drawing Office for Geography staff and dissertation students)

- collection includes OS, soil, geology, landuse and specialist - table for laying out map related work (on a daily basis)

Also available for use by staff

Staplers, sticky tape, professional trimmer, guillotine, cutting mat, glue booth, comb binding machine, light box

We would like to remind staff that all publications and presentations that are presented externally to the University should be of a professional, high standard and should adhere to the University’s visual identity guidelines. Consultation with Helen and Sue is strongly advised.

General School Servicing

Signage
- posters (e.g. Geography photoboard, Geography ‘Welcome’ poster)
- noticeboards
- room signs
Field Trip Preparation
- maps
- equipment
- printing
- collating and binding of handbooks
Curatorship of the Map Store
- maps (e.g. UG dissertation work, PG & staff fieldwork, teaching practicals)
- atlases - UG dissertations
- PG theses
- aerial photographs and sortie plots
Provide advice on basic cartographic design, design techniques and the use of specialised software (e.g. to PGs and UGs when requested)
Troubleshooting (e.g. problems arising from different file formats, data from various sources, printing issues)

Contact

Helen Jones & Sue Rouillard
Tel: (01392) 26 3245
Email: H.R.Jones@exeter.ac.uk or S.E.Rouillard@exeter.ac.uk
Room: Amory D439