About the workshop

Goddard Design and Print is a small signwriting and print workshop based on the edge of Market Weighton, the small market town between York and Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The work is vehicle livery, shopfront signage, and small-run printed work for local businesses. Customers are mostly within a 30-mile radius — Hull, York, Beverley, Pocklington, Selby, the smaller villages between — though larger fleet jobs come from further afield.

How the workshop works

One unit, the necessary kit. A large-format printer for vinyl and banner work, a plotter for cut-vinyl letters and graphics, an application bench long enough for a Transit panel, a small fitting bay for vehicles to drive in. The work is done in-house from artwork to fit; the workshop doesn't sub-let print to third parties.

Vehicle work — the bread and butter

Most weeks the workshop has a van or two in for livery work. The common jobs are:

• A fresh vinyl livery on a newly-bought Transit, Sprinter, or similar — usually a day of fitting after the design is signed off.
• Replacing a faded set of vinyls on an older fleet vehicle. Often done in pairs, so the fleet looks consistent at all times.
• Repair signwriting after panel damage and a respray — match the existing fleet livery, fit, return.
• Full vinyl wraps in colour-change films. Less common than livery work but the workshop takes them on.
• Trailer and HGV signwriting — the larger format work, often on units that come in on a quiet weekend.

Shopfront work

Smaller in volume than vehicles but a steady part of the calendar. Fascia replacements for a shop that's changed hands, hanging signs for new businesses, window graphics with opening hours and offers, and the occasional internal sign or graphic panel for an office reception.

Printed work

The print side covers most of what a small local business needs: A4 and A3 posters, vinyl banners for events, business-card runs, small flyer batches, vehicle stickers in small numbers. The volumes here are usually small — a hundred cards, a dozen banners — and turnaround tends to be quick.

How a job goes

1. Initial chat. By phone, email, or in person at the workshop. We talk through what you'd like and the rough scope.
2. Measure-up. For vehicles, the workshop or a visit to your yard to measure panels and check existing colours. For shopfronts, a site visit.
3. Artwork. A proof comes back within a few working days. You sign off, or we adjust.
4. Production. Print and plotter work in-house. Lead time depends on the queue.
5. Fit. At the workshop for vehicles (most common), at your premises for shops and larger fleet work.

What the workshop doesn't take on

Some things sit outside our usual wheelhouse and we'll usually refer them on:

• Multi-vehicle fleet work for nationwide companies — better suited to a larger national signwriter.
• Specialist illuminated signs (LED letters, neon) — we'll work alongside a sign-makers who handles the illumination piece.
• Very large-format banners (above about 6m). Possible but often more economical from a high-volume specialist.

Contact

Email [email protected] with a brief description and a photo or two of the vehicle, shopfront, or print. A quote and lead-time usually comes back the same working day. Phone is fine if email isn't your thing — number on the workshop board, or ask via email and we'll send it back.