5.31.2011

Photography

Oh I had fun photographing today. After a mammoth 3 hour session followed by 2 hours of editing at home i find out... someone changed the settings and now its at 72 dpi and the images are about 10cm big.

So now i have to take a load more tomorrow which pushes my to do list back even further. Shocking.

Here are some of the pics, they didnt come out very well anyways. Bear in mind i took 4gb worth of photos, about 800 all in all.








5.25.2011

Action plan/Evaluation

MTYEK Screen Print FAIL AGAIN!

Just went to coat my two large screens for my four other t-shirts....aaaand once coated they came out streaky and just plain wrong. Gareth said the screens are really bad so now i've got to strip two more (which took me over an hour yesterday), wait for them to dry then re-coat them then wait for that to dry, then expose etc etc. And `to make matters worse, the stripping room is out of order cos some pleb thought it would be good to flood it.

I'm seriously considering going down the road to do it, its a faff but generally it should be easier. In theory.

5.24.2011

TW Type books...now with added stock

I took the opportunity of my print slot to print off some more type books but on a couple of different stocks. I'll re-photograph these later because these images don't give the full effect of the print but this it gives you the basic idea of whats going on:




These two new stocks are basically thicker higher quality than the 90 gsm I printed on yesterday. One was a matt off-white, the other a more antique shade. Either way there was problems with both. The antique stock came out really dull, while the actual print quality wasn't great on either, probably because of how matt they are. Another problem for both was that any red (of which on of my books has a lot of, and its a stonking rich red too) comes out brown, which is counter productive really, meaning i'll actually be better off sticking with standard white. Plus it folds way better.

Along with the books I did a few hand out cards for one of the typefaces and for the band I did it for, just with their myspace and shop details on. Same format as the books, but on 300gsm board.

Final DC Publication

MTYEK Screen print FAIL