Design for print / Screen printing

29 / 11 / 13

DESIGN FOR PRINT / OUGD504
SCREEN PRINTING.
POSTERS & PAGES.

Because I am not that confident when screen printing, especially with multiple colours, I asked for help from the technicians down at the Vernon street building to help me carry out the process I wanted to achieve. By doing the posters first with guidance, I felt that this would help me gain insight and knowledge that would help to complete the same process for the inside pages in the future.

I got the specific pots of ink and began to print. I needed at least 4 prints on the 'ink' to start with to which three would be carried on with the additions of the other colours.

This screen printing session turned out very well and I very much appreciated the help from the technician as I no feel confident in carrying out the same method, on a smaller scale when it comes to print for my book.

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INSIDE PAGES

Using the same techniques shown to me by those at Vernon, I printed the inside pages with the same design however on a smaller scale.

 Through out this process it wasn't suitable for me to take photographs as I would have liked due to the busy environment and how i was unable to get up and above the screen to take birds eye view picture, so this is something I had to start thinking around.

Because I had drawn out the composition of how i wanted the photos to look before i started to try and put these together using the Illustrator software to see if i could picture my ideas in a way that photography wouldn't allow.

 I found it hard to draw a squeegee from scratch on illustrator so I drew it up quick sketch first and then traced over it.

I used the 3d effect tool to try and make the ink look 3d like I have made the frame of the screen.

To make the screen appear raised I placed it on a different perspective. The arrow helps to show that the green is raised and the squeegee it to show that ink has been applied.

I used the same style of arrow to keep consistent and also added an inked squeegee.

Im really happy with this outcome. I was nervous to start with AS i did not think that a digital and screen printed images would look consistent with but I suppose using the pure colours of print helps the colours remain the same.