Ahoy!

Still in love with all things Sailor/Navy!! Having so much fun looking at all the designs that have stemmed from them!

There are so many different variations; there are the 'retro' styles ones that use the brown paper for background with washed out colours and then on the other end there are the bright coloured ones with the use of creative typography. Oddly for me I'm loving the bright blue one which has 'More with less is more.' I feel everything just works on it, the composition of type, the use of screen print onto newspaper, makes me think of a fish'n'chip shop.

Vintage Pin-up

For a recent brief titled 'Creative Arts Summer Show' the clients want to see four identity ideas from each designer. One of the routes I was led down after researching each word was sailors and the posters around them. That was after researching 'Summer' and the nautical themed bikinis that you can buy. Maybe I did jump a few steps ahead into something that might not fit the brief, but I just love the pin-up looks. It combines fun with elements of classiness. 

Paper stencils!

Instead of getting a design exposed onto a screen we did it using purely paper...

Inspired by one of the necklaces I often wear. The style is quite simple due to limited time in the print room. But saying that I like the simplicity, means the silhouette shines through more. For once I also worked with a bright pink! Gradually starting to work with bright colours and be a bit experimental. 

I Heart Shoelaces and Napkins

I have already uploaded some of my screen prints but for some reason I am now a fanatic of them!

One of the screen prints that I did, the design was hand-rendered (previously I had used designs created on the computer). For this I painted straight onto acetate :

The paint versions of little sketches. 

As the designs are painted straight onto the acetate texture can be created by using different tools. For the shoelaces I thought I'd try some string and see what effect came from it.

What they look like once they have been screen-printed. 

Here you can see what they look like once put on a screen and printed through. The texture of the string didn't really show through , however, the 'messy' edges give it a lot of detail that you wouldn't be able to create on the computer. 

The teacup printed onto a napkin. 

After doing the print of all the sketches I though I'd have a play around with them separately. Above you can see the teacup printed onto a napkin. I love them. I know that sounds a tad arrogant but I think they are quite cute. They could be improved by the amount of paint I use, some go a bit patchy, but once again mistakes are sometimes what makes a piece of design. As one of my old tutors used to call them - "happy accidents." 

Little find.

Don't you love it when you find something that you had completely forgotton about!

The other day I was browsing through some blogs that I like, through this browsing I end up discovering new sites I like and spending three hours exploring instead of doing my assignments.... oops.

On one of the sites I saw these :

How adorable is the typewriter ring! The thing I liked about these was how I didn't even notice the ring at first. The packets were the things that got my attention. I'll admit I'm a fan of the vintage look and these two designs definitely  have elements of vintage in them, the faded material the use of minimal colours...

I feel bit bad at the moment as I can't track down the blog I saw these on, as soon as I find it I will add that up onto here, as they are divine.... and how can someone surprise me with one if I don't have the site written down.... <3

Printy print, cutty cut.

Today I spent time printing, then cutting, then printing, then cutting, then screen printing!!


Good eight hours of print and cut. But still I would say that it was worth it! 

Clearer photos to be uploaded soon.

Sandwich Boards.

After the last post I looked at how signs and posters were made.

One thing I noticed was how the signs were either made from wood or metal.

This has made me question how I will make my poster and signage for D&ad brief. 

Maybe I could make a sandwich board using screen print to put logo and text onto it...