Printing my bags ..

 I had to measure my bags and the screen to find the centre and line them up. I started by printing black.

Here is my first sample, I thought the ink came through a little heavy, to combat this I found that if the paint was mixed equally with printing medium and quickly skimmed across the screen the image came out clearer.

 Two of my bags printed in black.

 Green samples. I chose an emerald earthy green to tie in with my poster and the folky theme.

 Blue samples, this was to tie in with the festival poster.

 Brown Prints, this was to continue the earthy theme.

I randomly plodged on brown and green paint, this gave an interesting merge of the woody theme. I am very happy with the 18 bags I have successfully printed and the feedback i have recieved has been very positive.

Bunting Samples

 I had to experiment with tension and needle size to determine how I wanted my knitted flags to look.

 For the doile flags, I PVA'ed the cut edge so it would not fray or snag threads.

Here is a sewn sample of the flags I plan to include. I want to keep the colour scheme minimal and focus on the texture and methods used. The first is a hemmed calico flag, with lino cut printing on to it. There is also the doile and knitted flags. I do however intend to increase the size.

This is a sample of the typographic flags i plan to use, at first I used just a piece of material but this looked unexciting and too 2D so I wadded up my second attempt which made it look better. My lettering will have serifs and I plan to use calico.

Moving in the furniture ...

Here are some ideas from Pinterest of the modern idea of vintage distressed upcycling, I think this fits in perfectly with my theme of folk art and craft, the idea of never throwing anything out and always reusing and handing down.

In storage, we found a lovely vintage bookcase, although the design is simple, it is functional and will fit in with my project perfectly.

I used a power sander to strip back the varnish and then I will white wash it, giving a distressed look which is very current at the moment.

Tshirt and bag design put onto a screen

My screen has finally came back but I can't start printing until half term because Katie Jarvis is still printing on the large table and I need a large area to secure my tshirts and bags.

Final Draft of My Vinyl Cover

I reproduced my vinyl cover to give a better finish, from the range of designs I made, my client liked this one the best. Originally, I was going to use my own imagery for the photographic elements, this however proved to be difficult, as there were many variables working against me. Such as: the weather, the time I had left and the location of such a shot.This considered I went onto Google images and sourced the above image of Morton Arboretum woodland from Wikipedia. This obviously is not ideal, in reality though, Graphic Designers don't have the luxury of time to collect their own images, the internet is a valuable resource and as long as no copyright is infringed.

Cut out Poster

Cut out Poster, inspired by Rob Ryan and Mark Hearld

Mount Spray used to attach onto tissue paper background, happy with the colouring, regal, also raised some  aspects to give a 3d feel. Next step is to screen print on the font.

Screenprinted Font. I am very happy with the finished product, I feel it has worked very well.

A1 poster attempt

Flyer from Moseley Folk Festival 2012

 Marbled paper, unfortunately this surface was too wrinkled to successfully work into.

I found it difficult to cut into, i will try and resolve this issue by using stretched paper instead.



Second Poster

Pencil sketch of second poster proposal, inspired by Mosely Folk Festival's poster

I chose this poster because I liked the antiquey style and the centralized composition.

 Experimental marbling paper, sprinkling ink into a tray of water and then laying the paper on top. I thought this would give an interesting background for the second poster idea, which is the festival featuring the band.

 I used the marbled paper and cut out part of my design, i feel that this worked well but the serifs on the font were difficult to cut out. For my final design, i need to marble the paper and then stretch it to stop it from crinkling.

Experimenting with different coloured backgrounds.

Band Poster

A3 draft for band poster

A1, water coloured branches and moved the owl further down to give a cleaner and balanced composition.

Using a Fine liner, gave emphasis to serif lettering and printed two sizes of lino cut leaves to continue illustrative theme used on the vinyl.