Tag Archives: Screen Printing

05/11/2012 · 10:03 pm

Is your glass half full or half empty?

The past couple of weeks have been non-stop with this group magazine project. I know that I always say I’m busy, but this project is the busiest yet.

This is the first ‘real’ group project we’ve had and it’s definitely been an eye opener. Working as a group takes a lot of planning, discussion, compromise and is just generally tiring. We’re aiming to impress too, so putting a lot of extra effort in… On Friday, Team Divide went up to Greestone to step away from our screens and get our hands messy (and then did the even messier photoshoot on Sat. Got to love the mess!).

Lucy squeegy-ing pink…

… oooh! Emma & Sunjay setting up…

… Team Divide were like a machine – prints coming out of our ears! Amber’s classy b&w design…

Emma preps one of our screens – Emma & I devised a plan to print our work together, but I messed it up (sorry Em)…

… whilst everyone else is still hard at work.

Mixing our orange…

… and the first test print! About 2 hours, 20 stress fits and 50 washes of our screens later, the drying rack was full!

We were running out of time, so to help them along their way, I got the hairdryer out. Emma & I look after our prints ;)

I love screen printing, but I just wish it wasn’t so stressful! I’m not one of those people who crave perfection with it as I like the unique aspects and that every print is different but I always end up stressing out and that’s when things go wrong. Looking back, I really don’t know how I got through the Limited Edition project doing my 4 colour stencil prints – CRAZY!

Anyway, more on this stuff soon :) I feel like I’m being very mysterious but I’m just keeping you all in suspense for the big reveal next week! This deadline has come around so quickly – eek!

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02/12/2011 · 2:34 pm

Red Ink

Yesterday I printed the first colour my Limited Edition Posters!

In total I’m printing 3 colours and I started with the background red…

Squelch

Oooooh…

Butcher’s stripes! I’m now very excited to print the black and blue on Tuesday and have the final posters! (Thanks to T-Bish for being my photographer) I love printmaking, but trying to remove my stencil from the screen was a bit of a pain though :(

Meanwhile, Sunjay couldn’t find his type…

Ash: Is it me you’re looking for?

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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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31/05/2011 · 5:27 pm

J’adore… LetterMpress App for Ipad

Graphic design is often criticised nowadays for being too digital. In the early days everything was done by hand, then progressing onto printing presses and machinery and finally onto the digital age of today.

LetterMpress, created by John Bonadies, is an ipad app which allows the experience of ‘old school’ printing without the mess(and bill for all of the equipment!). I for one am a big fan of silk screen printing, linocutting and wooden type so when I saw this I just thought ‘Oooooooh!’:

Of course, it’s not going to give you the same effect as if it was done with the real equipment and it’s only for a bit of fun. For people like me who don’t have a press readily available to use, this is the next best thing… well, if I had an Ipad haha I’m still really excited about this app though!

Originally creator Bonadies was aiming for $15,000 of donations from backers to get the project off the ground but the total raised was infact nearly triple: $39,495!

I know a few of my classmates at Lincoln would LOVE this app because there were a group of us getting excited at the prospect of doing some ‘proper printing’ in second year so hopefully someone will buy an ipad and buy the app and let me use it before that time comes in September… :)

You can ‘Like’ LetterMpress’ page on facebook to keep up with developments – I have :)

If you need to feed your lust ;) for printing right now, watch this brilliant instructional video by Naomie Ross:

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25/05/2011 · 4:34 pm

J’adore… Tone Ink

I was browsing FPO earlier and came across Tone Ink‘s posters for Grace Potter & The Nocturnals…

I love the colour mix and overlay method of the leaf. The wood grain is a nice texture too… not too harsh but still nicely detailed. Also, I’m quite a fan of Futura recently since my book cover for Woman on the Edge of Time :)

The Tone Ink studio is based in Baltimore, Maryland who ‘strive to use a combination of limited color and vintage typography, imagery, and texture to deliver tactile, hand-printed pieces of art’. I love their approach!

I checked out Tone Ink’s website, and found more lovely posters…

I really like the rich berry colour mixed with the grainy texture which creates a moody/storm-like scene setting.

I think this series of posters is quite dark but cute with the shed and the birds in the moon. I love the silhouette style used and the little stars in the sky bring a magical atmosphere to it.

Imagine if the moon was really THAT big! Haha

Beautifully crafted work, as I’m sure you will agree!?

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