Printing and all things heather

CUSTOM TYPEFACE

.. well not all things, but the typeface i made for her

I tried my best to communicate her shyness and aspects of stubbornness as the point was to visually communicate a set of character traits which represented my client/ group partner. I did this by using the linear shading, i thought that helvetica (despite its massive genericness)  was an overall happy looking font, so on a personal level i think i tackled it quite well, as the words i chose to put across visually were, Shy, Stubborn and Happy. When it came to the crit,  the feedback I Got was good because the group reckoned the font would come across visually better in context. So, i'll probably carry on with it and maybe write her name underneath the alphabet, in the same format as I did the badge. So yeah my client (heather!) seemed to like it so all is well. 

And heres the badge Heather made for me :

I think it communicates the chilled out side to me, but it needs a little work i reckon. Don't get me wrong though, its a good Concept... - sweet.

- Swiftly closing the book on that chapter, 

SCREEN PRINTING

Had my second print session at Vernon street with the living legend that is Roger,  The camp Southern Hardman haha, he's class man. So yeah, In this session me and the "gang" were doing screen prints of The mono- prints i was talking about in an earlier post.

In this post, i have some special guests to talk about what screen printing is, and here he is, Mr Willy Asken and Mrs Emma Price broadcasting live form the Dry Dock!

Big lols ! A few pints had happened prior to that explanation but i think thats a pretty damn good summary - Yeah so basically You're just pushing paint through a photo sensitive mesh onto the paper or whatever surface you choose. You can also overlap colour as much as you want, which is what we were doing with Cyan and magenta.

Here is the actual printing process in a series of images, and then the final results...

So, you use a squeegee to press the paint through the meshed frame onto the paper,

... lift the frame up to push the ink back across ready for the next print,

... then fully lift the frame and remove, 

... and then you've got your Print!

Heres mine.. Im not too mad about it cause, well... looks a bit shit really doesn't it.

I think the initial image I used was too heavy with its black tones so it doesn't work that well but still, o.k for a first attempt at screen printing using typography!

So that's that really.

Asta - La Fuego :)