I designed a new typeface

Painting on to the screen

I have been painting on to screens with screen filler to print reversed out. The top photo is the screen filler on the screen and the bottom one is ready to print with black ink. It makes screen printing so much quicker and easier to prepare. Today I have printed two posters and eight business card designs.

jotta's photos from the Dazed Live zine exhibition

In the last post I wrote about my zine Adventures in Newsprint being part of Dazed Live festival.

jotta, who curated the exhibition have some good photos of the event on their flickr.

An illustration for Inventive and co

Valentines Day cards

Just sent off these hand screen printed Valentine's Day cards to the Black Swan Arts.

Prints from recent months

Experimenting with four colour separation screen prints

Screen printed postcards

Screen printed miniature envelopes

Experimenting with new screen print inks

Out-takes from a Letterpress project- look here and here for the final prints

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Postcards

I've designed and illustrated some postcards to be hand screen printed. Here are a couple of the illustrations.

Rrrrr.

For the past year and a half I have been making patterns from letters and words, in the beginning I dreamt of screen printing a set of them from A to Z. Then I made a book of these patterns, each one made up of a different letter of the alphabet, half the book in Verdana and half in Times New Roman. Making ugly type beautiful. See here for a mediocre post about it.

I have probably created about 300 patterns since the beginning and it's probably one of my favourite things to do. It wasn't until somebody pointed it out to me that I realised how underrepresented my patterns are on this blog, so here is one I did today, it's my first one I've ever done with a hand drawn letter rather than a typeface. What took so long? I will probably spend the next three days obsessively making them only to move on to something else.

On Thursday I screen printed the first colour of a B pattern set in Verdana Italic, more to come.