Brief 3 - Screenprinting

It was great to revisit screen printing as it is something I often avoid due to the lengthy time process but I'm really glad we hand printed these posters — it just adds a tactile aesthetic that you can't get with digital prints.

The majority of our designs consisted of purely block colour and, initially, either the paper stuck to the screen or not enough ink came through. I was pretty useless but Max managed to get some nice looking prints. The first was 1/2 of Max's design — the R glyph. We chose a vivid blue as this colour is often found on street signs. The colour varied depending on what stock we used and differed substantially from satin to uncoated — almost seemed like a baby blue on the glossier stock.

Next up was the first half of my design which went relatively smoothly — there were some offprints but these came in handy later on in the F~w process (in the form of notebooks) Again, the design took up the majority of the paper so the stock tended to stick to the screen. We managed to get a few good prints out of the process though.

We then applied the second colour, red, as a reference STOP signs. I didn't realise how vivid the colours were until we printed the final colour but it definitely drew our attention.

Yaf then printed his design, again using the same red with a brief insight into Form~writing and our contact details in blue. Despite the differences and variations between our poster designs (which is what we intended to do) they seemed to work as a set.

A couple of the offprints:

And the ones that were successful: