Co-ordinating designs

A few photos of the process of printing my co-ordinating design samples. A bit more random than the previous planned ones but i added in a few more colours that I mixed during the colour experimentation stage.

Printing full length drops.

A lot of planning went into the process of the printed final drops. Each layer of each 3 meter long repeat length had to be broken down into separate screens and labelled and registered.

Some Final design peeks

Just a few photos of a few of the chosen designs for my final collection. Full drops and detail shots.

These were also the designs which I put into my presentation for the WHS Pugin wallpaper competition.

A few inspiration images. Lots of the companies/Designers I am inspired by work with screen printing, bold colours and simple but striking shape and line combinations. Here are just a few of my favourites.

Darling clementine

Pikku

Darling Clementine

Inaluxe

Yoke

Inaluxe

Orla Kiely

House of Rym

Sample book prints.

Because of the large scale nature of my wallpaper designs I knew from an early stage that it would not be suitable to display them rolled or partially shown for my project deadline and for my final show. Instead I decided to make a wallpaper sample book where there would be a to scale sample of each of my wallpaper designs along side an in situ draping and a scaled down image of the full design repeat length.
I got my sample book made by a wonderful leeds based book binding company called Spink & Thackery.
More pictures of the finished book will be coming soon but here are a few pictures of the printing of the samples.
Each one is between 1-3 colour layers with an additional layer of transparent foil over the top, for the colour collection. Each black and white design had one layer of black print and one layer of black foil.

I had to be very organised when printing my wallpaper collection. As I chose to screen print the entire thing I knew it was a large task but the planning was crucial. I broke it down into batches as I could only use 3-6 A0 screens and 9 A1 screens at once. Each day I could print either 1 or 2 layers of a printed length and 3 sample book pages.

Each positive had to be labeled with which sample it was and which layer. Each positive for the lengths had to have the correct corresponding registration marks and orders clearly on it but not in a place where it would affect the print.

Each day I would expose all my coated screens, lay out the papers, print the screens, strip the screens then finally coat the screens ready for the next day.

Muraspec competition

We had a lovely lady from Muraspec come into Uni and explain about the company, the way they worked and the kinds of wall coverings they produced.
I decided to use some of the designs I was producing for my co-ordinating collection for my competition entry.
Just a few photos of the designs in the process of printing.

Although my competition entry was not the winning one, Congratulations to Louise Dormer, I may well still apply for a work placement with the Muraspec Design team as I like the way their company works and the small but hands on way in which they produce wall coverings.

Degree show sneak peak

It has been such a long time since I have done any blog posts at all. Firstly I have been very busy with the Final major project deadline then I have been having a little break.
there will be a few backdated posts coming soon though.

But first a sneak peak of my degree show stand for the Leeds College of Art show starting on the 15th of may. Anyone who's around/up north come and check it out, if not you can come see me and my fellow students during part 1 of New Designers 2012.