Screenprinting!

This is probably the class I’m most excited about working in this semester. It’s something I’ve wanted to do ever since I first learned of it. The materials cost quite a bit, though, and I didn’t want to jump in without knowing what I was doing. I can’t wait for my new screen to come in! Awesomely enough, our instructor wants us to start out with logos, so I can actually make my “DVNO” shirts happen. The design’s already done!

Okay, I also don’t know nearly enough designers, so I’m gonna try to keep track of the names I hear and look ‘em up.

Jay Ryan – A Chicago-based designer who specializes in screen printed posters for bands.

My Morning Jacket / Minneapolis – six screens used

I’m trying to break down why he needed six screens for this. Two for the gradient background, 1 for the black, 1 for the grey, and isn’t the yellow the color of the french cover he’s printing on? Either way, I dig the deco imagery, and I guess I never really thought about trying to print gradients …

Hero Design Studio – Another music-focused design studio, though based in Buffalo, NY. 

A poster for Queens of the Stone Age

I got this for Frazier for Christmas since QotSA’s one of his favorite bands, but also because that’s a fucking hot ‘Q’. I’m also really impressed by the detail of the imagery!

Jason Munn – Okay, yes, music, again. San Francisco-based, and awesome to the point of having a permanent spot at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Um, a poster for Beck

Munn’s compositions definitely skew towards minimal, but good Lord, that’s a 4-screen print and those colors are overlaid GORGEOUSLY.

If you know any prominent designers who specialize in screen printing, lemme know, especially if they don’t do band posters. I wanna see more uses of the technique. (If you say Warhol, you are not being clever.)

{ January 28th, 2009 at 10:40 pm | 1 comment }
Tags: class, inspiration, screen printing