Photographs

I spent today getting all my products together, printing off the last part of my ISTD, printing off the bellyband for my poster brief and printing off the processing map. After getting all those files completed and ready to print i have spent the whole day photographing the projects.
This actually took a a lot longer than i thought it was going to take. Which was good and bad, good because i had a range of products and bad because it was time consuming and i didn't think it'd take as long as it did.



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Photo 3

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Pro 2

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Dan 2

Dan 1

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Sol 2

Sol 2

Raster poster mark 2

After the initial rastering i did of the dyland sayings, i decided to enlarge them because they were too small to function as a printing plate. I have made them much bigger so you can really pick out the detail. What i also realised was that i needed to reverse the imagery so that it was mirror image in order for it to print successfully onto the paper that i will use. this was something that i hadn't thought-out about a and without the development i would have still had no idea. SO it was a complete waste of time. I am much happier with the outcomes here because they are much larger and they will transfer across a lot easier. 

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Embossing and Debossing

I feel like i've had a really productive today, i'm really happy!
Firstly i managed to get my A2 plywood poster frames cut this morning.. after they finished building the room around the laser cutters..
This mean't this afternoon i managed to get some of them embossed and de-bossed up in the print and textiles room. After speaking to them they told me that the most appropriate stock to use would be their handmade stock because it would take the water well and form around the shapes really well.
So following their advice i have done exactly that.

When i first started printing them it was frustrating because the burnt bits from the plywood transferred onto the paper making them really dirty, however after the first couple all the dirt had transferred leaving a clean shape to print with.

I debossed and embossed both the posters to see which had a better effect, i think the embossed works better with larger posters because they have a larger surface area to catch the light. Whereas the smaller posters work better debossed because the light shows up the smaller details more accurately.

Either way i have a range of posters using both the printing techniques.

Im really happy with how they have turned out.

Poster designs thus far

Open publication - Free publishing - More design

These are the poster designs that i have put together so far, its helped me realise what processes i have been doing, what needs to be done and how they are working together as a whole. I think its really going to be down to the presentation and packaging to pull them all together. They were never meant to look identical, i think its just my obsession with constancy that is making them look a little different and disjointed, but again that was the idea. 

There are certain ones that you can only visualise once they are processed but they will be.

I wanted to get my lazer cut and embossed posters done over reading week but they have decided to build a room around the laser cutter so i couldn't get near it.. ANNOYING.

So i am just getting all the designs finished and then i can get them done next week.