#posterstopasteups

This morning I used the one arm bandit to print a bunch of the missiles on litho and butcher paper. It was quite easy to use and I printed 15 on iltho and 8 on butcher.

The set up was quite easy

Choose a correct size squeegee and secure to the arm. Put down acetate for registering. Secure the screen to the side arms with screws (this way you can lift them all together.) put some pads of card stock under the frame of the screen. Check the weight so that it's comfortable to print. Put paper under the screen, turn on the fan so the paper is suctioned to the surface. Push the ink through with the squeegee from left to right, like rowing a boat. slowly lift up the screen and set the screen up. Turn off the fan and remove the paper to dry. Flood the screen from right to left.

I'm really happy with the results! I think i'll only paste up the litho ones as I like the contrast of the white and black, but it was good to test the butcher. The butchers was a bit too thin, the ink made it buckle.

Timeline for the next few weeks for the assignment:

Week 4

screen print missile

digitally print posters

week 5

screen print speech bubble

get documentation of all works (not pasted up / installed)

submit on canvas documentation

week 6

paste up / install

finish slides

submit video presentation and slides to drop box with supporting material and doco of paste up

In class we looked at Barbara Kruger. Here's stuff from the in class exercise.

Got my prints back from Nick. Made the screens for the speech bubble paste up that i'll screen print. I got the other posters back too and they are basically done. I trimmed off the bottom section that said "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Free" after discussion as it didn't seem like it needed it, the image spoke for itself. For the text focus of the posters will be the structure of the diagram and the text in the speech bubbles.

Coat the screen with emulsifier, let dry in dark space. Make sure when putting coating on, choose an applicator that does not touch the edges of the screen, only mesh to ensure correct tension.

Expose with positive on printed tracing paper using light table. Place positive down before the screen in the orientation you want. Settings: Preset A, vacuum 8 sec, expose 75 sec.

Wash out un exposed parts with power washer, dry.

Screen ready for use !

Gonna print it with the one arm tomorrow, hopefully get a bunch of the missiles done. There is some problem for the assignment tho, ill be very busy next week so will have to find time to do pasteups. Though if the submission on the friday isnt the presentation then I can do the pasteups the week after in week 6.

ALSO

Talked to Josh and Nick! Will be printing the missile with the speech bubble using screen printing, one two seperate screens since I'll be cutting them out and positioning them while actually pasting up. I've sent the file to Nick in the actual size to print a positive. I'm aiming to get the screen made this week, (positive, coating, exposing) and using the one arm press to print lots of them next week. For the speech bubble itll be on a smaller frame and i'll be able to hand print it.

I've also sent over the posters to Nick to print out in A2, which will probably be done this week too.

Some info I got from talking to Josh:

Here are the finalised designs for all the posters!

for the pasteup ones, its between a bitmap and the threshold. I'll consult Josh and decide depending on which one would be better for screen printing.

Hopefully I'll be able to get the screen made tomorrow.

Notes from today!

confirmed the designs ill be picking with luke - Just do all of them!

The plan is to have;

this poster, on its own.

These two, as a pair that will be pasted up next to eachother.

And a cut out paste up of this design.

For the materials - I plan on screen printing and creating multiples of the last cut out design. I'll print out just the missile and a empty speech bubble to create a template, and fill in the words. This way I can put different text on the same design.

For the other two posters, I think itll probably be best for time and effort to have them digitally printed. the two colours of red and black would be annoying for screens, and I don't plan on making multiples.

I want to play with a contrast between the unfeeling, straight line and bold qualities of digital type faces and diagrams with the hand-drawn quality of the cute cartoon missiles.

For the site, i was thinking it could be pasted near engineering buildings in usyd / sydney that have ties / support for the IDF. But I want to actually paste them up and that might be too risky... I'll probably just put them in city / inner west alley ways.

The plan:

Week 3

Finalise designs of all the posters

Week 4

consult josh and nick

make the screen for the cartoon speech bubble missile design

screen print multiple copies of design 3

Week 5

print digital posters design 1 and 2

install / pasteup and document

online submission - photo of poster and mockup / install

Week 6

submission of video presentation and slides

Also here are some mockups we made in class today

Notes from class

Looking at a brief history of political posters. Here were some of my favourites

Talked to Luke about my idea for assignment 1 - He likes the concept. I think since i've figured out what the main visuals will be, i will spend some more time further developing the idea and the best way of incorporating text. Some feed back I got for this test poster:

Was the font type of the title should be bolder, like it is in the other poster. In addition, the labels should be hand written script, much like the labels on a architectural diagram. I think my inspiration is different, rather than architecture I was looking to simple / digitally made diagram for science or geography types.

More like this... Less human and feeling?

There was also feedback on the shape of the missile characters - they are too fish like. By making the tail end into a cyllinder it will more closely resemble actual missiles.

I think I want to create a series of them? or at least have many ideas and can cut down to the best three or something. Depending on how many I want to make it will also determine how I should be printing them. Ideally id love to use screen printing or other analogue techniques. I want to limit my colour pallet to black, white and red. \

I also would like to book in to talk to Nick to see what the best way of realising my design would be. I also want to think about where I would like to install the posters.

To do:

Draw multiple designs - ask luke for feedback on which ones to pursuit

research artist references

research concept / political reference - Missiles? Helplessness in reaction to war, humor as political defiance....