Friday, September 21, 2012

PRINTING!!! (and web stuff)

So I finally finished designing my Street Art - I'm proud to say it's almost all my own work, I just got a little bit of feedback help with things like fonts and layout.

I got my plates made up the other day at Imagination Graphics. I'm glad I checked everything as (LITERALLY) the last second because my QR codes didn't work!!! Thankfully I was able to fix them in time.

I spent the last two days printing, and got everything done. And let me tell you, 2 colour plates x 160 sheets on our press in 2 days, not to mention chopping them all in half and signing the limited edition of 12 - is not an easy feat!!!

Here's a bit of a documentation of the process:

Choosing my ink colour for the fountain (and making sure the middle mixes to a nice purple):


Putting the ink on the inking rollers:


Getting the plate all ready and properly dampened:


First print, colour no.1:


Day Two: Black Ink


Plate no. 2: Black plate


Sorting out some "too much water" issues:


Drying on print racks:


Sorting out some registration issues:


Chopping!


And some videos to explain the whole process (excuse the dodgy "self-camera" work)




*Images & videos all mine.

And that's the printing.

Website work has been a whole new world for me. I've never built a wordpress before and suddenly I've had to look up things like CSS codes. I think it's looking pretty good though! Don't you?

Thanks to Lucas Ihlein for all the help.

4 comments:

  1. hurrah louise!
    so proud of you!
    xxLucas

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  2. This looks fantastic! Where can I see one?

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  3. Thank you Bernie! You can take a look at ivorytowerforum.net or keep an eye out in Sydney, should be some more put up around Glebe/Newtown/USYD this week!

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