And its summer already ..

After being caught up in all the hype of final show, its finished and summer has begun! Here are a few shaps of my finished project.

 The finished article ....

 The spread on opening night put together by Amber, Katie Jarvis, Lucy, Abby, Me and Kayleigh.

 Open suitcase displaying stuff

 My brother modelling my t shirt design

 Finished festival poster featuring band

 T shirt and bag design

 Vinyl cover design

 Second poster, bands debut album

Bunting print.

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.

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.

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.

Finished Illustrative Vinyl idea

Practise printing lino onto a photocopy to make sure can line up. I chose the ink colour as it ties in with the muted tones of the branches and leaves.

Finished Illustrative Vinyl Cover, Slightly less smooth print due to raised surface of emulsioned background. All things considered I'm very happy with the result.

Initial Vinyl Cover Designs

Illustrative, layered lino printed, largely inspired by Mark Hearld

Photographic, cut out, screen printed, largely influenced by Miike Snow's debut album

Whilst browsing HMV, this album cover caught my attention ...I like the cut out feature, and I'd like to do this sort of technique with an owl shape and my own countryside imagery and print this on to a t-shirt

Screen Printing Tester

I put together this tshirt design, and hand screen printed it onto various surfaces, such as cartridge paper, sugar paper, cardboard, tyvek, calico etc.  I took inspiration from this image on Pinterest:

Lino Printing

Experimenting with lino print. Final design for vinyl art work

Photoshoot

 Tester shots

Informal group shots, will experiment with photoshop and other settings