So i achieved what i wanted to from my final year, i was determined to move away from digital print and approach my poster work as a screen print.
I must say it was like the first day back at school. i had no idea how to screen ,where everything was kept, what and how to do things. so i met with John Archer who helped me with the process taking an image from digital through to the screen print method.
This is certainly a method i wish to develop and was really enjoyable doing something a bit more tactile than designing on-screen.
the main thing was understanding a new discipline , and thinking of how i creat my image from scratch, taking into consideration what to add and what to leave out, text size and weight, amount of colours and details.
it helped me make more sense of what i was doing in my poster design and how i will approach it in the future.
each step feels like an achievement from the original on-screen design, to reworking it to be more user-friendly when creating the screen/mesh, printing on acetate, using the large HP printer in the hub, mixing the ink, paper stock right the way through to experiment with technique to the clean up of the studio.Even thinking how to get the thing home as a client requested a screen to send him, not easy when you gotta walk home in the wind and rain. all important steps to achieving the final print.
I recommend this way of printing, most enjoyable.
more info to follow.
