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18/10/2011 · 7:16 pm

An afternoon in the Printing room

After a quite stressful re-branding lesson, it was nice to go up the hill to the Print rooms at the Greestone building this afternoon. I’ve really missed the print room at college, so jumped at the chance to have a play around with inks and screens.

After an induction from Emma, the print technician, we had a go at some screen printing of sorts (we didn’t use the photochromic ink, but made stencils with newsprint)…

Creating our stencils…

I made a pattern from circles and a triangle for the middle :)

The boys ‘suit’ up…

Let the printing commence!

Smooth prints from Talveer and T-Bish!

Lucy and Amber ink up…

… and Emma assists.

Jack inks up his first ever screen…

… and I print my stencil:

It kinda reminds me of a rose? It wasn’t intentional, but I like the black mixed into the red – gives it a nice tone difference.

Talveer, Heather, T-Bish and Jack present their final works…

All smiles :)

I know the stereotype of a Graphic Designer is that we don’t like to get our hands dirty but I love print making! You can get some great textures and effects and it’s nice to get away from a mac for a while. Had a great afternoon with the guys – a laugh and a nosey around all the facilities! I love screen printing :)

And for the super nerdy, I found some typography bits in drawers:

More printmaking to come soon hopefully…when I have the time!

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02/06/2010 · 7:26 pm

Multidisciplinary Project – Leisure: Making Part 3

The last part of the multidisciplinary project – finally!

I chose to do some stamps because they are important in travel and leisure

I kept with the gambling/seaside theme and created a fruit machine inspired design from lino

Here is the first of the series - 3 pairs (unusual as usually 2 is a pair!)

I was glad to get to do some more linocutting before the end of the year – as I have said before, I love it :)

Here are the first prints :

I chose green as I associate it with gambling and money but thought it looked a bit boring…

So I added some yellow and it mixed in with the green and created a nice effect (or so I think anyway)

Pleased with the result, I carved my next two designs into lino…

3 cherries… don’t ask me what the pay out is though!

and 3 ice creams – there had to be some kind of twist!

I continued the theme of using green for the border and another colour for the object…

I’m quite pleased with how they came out – what do you think?

I cropped them down a bit so you can get a better idea of how they would look…

I think I might have to scan them into photoshop and edit the colour of the borders so they are all the same shade of green maybe?

Otherwise I am happy!

I have some other developments on the scarf – I have pencilled the pattern on! It took like 3 hours! And I’ve got to do it in pen now- wish me luck because I have a feeling the pen is going to run out on me!

Also, today I have taken some pictures of the hat in situ, but I am still editing them (I am the model so it might take a while) so if you’re interested keep checking back and I will put them up soon hopefully :)

Comments welcome as always!

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17/02/2010 · 10:13 am

J’adore… Sarah Hankinson

Back in September 2009 I was just starting a typographic CD project. At the time I was looking for fashion illustration imagery showing use of ink and watercolour, and I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for… doesn’t it always happen like that? You see a lot of something and then when you need it you can’t find it? Well anyway, I really like the fashion illustration style so often search behance, flickr and other sites looking for talent…

I came across Sarah Hankinson when looking at a Photography blog, funnily enough, as she had drawn a version of one of the photos:

The original photograph by She is frank:

Sarah Hankinson’s Illustration version:

And I just fell in love with it. So i checked the rest of her work out at http://www.sarahhankinson.com and was not disappointed.

I wish I could draw like this! Such detail and tone but such simplicity!

 

I love how she adds just a small part of colour to brighten it up. And I also really like the paint splatters and how you can see the different water marks :)

I also love the mixing of collage and ink drawing.

 and also (last one I promise) I love how this illustration is so rough and messy but so perfect at the same time. It’s just J’adore Sarah Hankinson.

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02/01/2010 · 12:16 pm

J’adore… Hatch Show Print

I found this video via Effektive - who I J’adore haha

If you love printmaking, letterpress, typography, posters or just Graphic Design in general…. you MUST watch this!
8 minutes of your life, well spent/enjoyed.

I love the opening quote: ‘Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms(have I got that right?)’

And I just love everything in this video – I wish I could go to Nashville to see it all happening/ get my own poster printed! www.hatchshowprint.com

My favourite poster of the video is 00.49 – Brittany Will you marry me? – LOVE this!
Take note future husband, whoever/wherever you may be… you would score MAJOR brownie points for asking me to marry you with a poster like that (obviously with my name instead hah)

Since starting the extra Printmaking award in September I have been a lot more aware/appreciative of printed stuff – hopefully a good influence on my design.

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30/12/2009 · 12:30 am

Printmaking: Printing with Collagraph

Yes I realise on December 1st I said ‘next week I can apply ink and print with it’… and I did, but everything got so hectic with the CD Design and Book Design deadlines I just forgot to blog the results…

After using my collagraph to emboss I couldn’t wait for the varnish to dry so I could ink it up… and it was worth the wait – I love this printing technique!

The first inking – Oooh how exciting!

The first print – Oooh!

Then I got a bit more adventurous – it still had some blue ink left on it, but I re-inked it with red too! (Not all parts, just some… going for a fading effect kind of)

The unveil… Oooh how exciting – I can see some parts are purple from where the inks have mixed :)

Oh, I DO like this… what do you think?

Then, if you didn’t think I could get any more experimental… you were wrong! I re-inked and placed squares of scrim onto the collagraph, making sure that they overlayed in some places…

I always like lifting it up to have a sneaky peak :) and voila:

Now, I decided it wasn’t quite finished. I didn’t want to just stick it down to a piece of paper to keep it in tact either, so I raided the bookmaking box and used some thread to loosely sew/stitch it together around the edges. I used small crosses/ cross stitch (X) in some of the overlapping places to add a nice detail and complete the handmade feel of the piece :) I got ink all over my hands, wrists and desk at college but managed not to get any on my clothes so bonus point for me I think :)

 

What do you think?
I’m gonna take some better photos of this but I haven’t decided how would be best yet… keep watching for an edit but still comment on what you see now of course :)

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