(09/12/08) After creating postcards using photographs/paintings of Llandudno and the layering of text and screenprints, I had the idea of creating a logo for a place in Llandudno. While I was in Llandudno I visited an art gallery which also had a small tea room, while eating our refreshments we were handed white servettes. I thought it would be great if the gallery had a logo that could be present on the servettes and possibly other items. A logo which in it's self could be a piece of artwork relating to the gallery.
With the logo being present on the servettes it may draw people's attention to it-a prompt to the start of a conversational topic based on the gallery. Also if people who come to the gallery/tea rooms take a serviette away with them, other people who havn't been to the gallery may then be tempted to find out more about it.
The idea of the logo was to develop and interesting piece of artwork in its self be along the way it could increase the gallery's business.
After my screen printing induction I remember the tutor saying that you can screen print on to many things-some of which may not appear to be the obvious materials that would work-the outcome could be unpredictable but actually could turn out be a new discovery. It's just about experimenting-trying it out onto different materials and seeing what works well for the project that you are doing. He gave an example of a boy who had screen printed onto ham and it had worked really well- it printed very clear and it also looked really interesting as the ham started to decay.
I thought that for my project it would link in well if I experimented printing on to serviettes and plates. So before I developed a logo I had a go at screen printing just an image of Llandudno onto servettes and plates.
The first few times I had a go it didn't turn out very well, as I either put too much paint on to the screen and it resulted in the napkin having too much excess paint on it or I put too little paint/didn't press hard enough when using the squeegy so areas of the image hadn't printed. After a few goes I ended up with some successful results!
I had a go screenprinting onto plates but the image that I had put onto the screen was to big for the middle of the plate so it was hard not to screen print onto the edges of the paper plate. Where as if I did it didn't look very neat or professional. If I was to screen print on to plates in the future I would need to makesure that my image was the correct size into the middle of the plate.
With the logo being present on the servettes it may draw people's attention to it-a prompt to the start of a conversational topic based on the gallery. Also if people who come to the gallery/tea rooms take a serviette away with them, other people who havn't been to the gallery may then be tempted to find out more about it.
The idea of the logo was to develop and interesting piece of artwork in its self be along the way it could increase the gallery's business.
After my screen printing induction I remember the tutor saying that you can screen print on to many things-some of which may not appear to be the obvious materials that would work-the outcome could be unpredictable but actually could turn out be a new discovery. It's just about experimenting-trying it out onto different materials and seeing what works well for the project that you are doing. He gave an example of a boy who had screen printed onto ham and it had worked really well- it printed very clear and it also looked really interesting as the ham started to decay.
I thought that for my project it would link in well if I experimented printing on to serviettes and plates. So before I developed a logo I had a go at screen printing just an image of Llandudno onto servettes and plates.
The first few times I had a go it didn't turn out very well, as I either put too much paint on to the screen and it resulted in the napkin having too much excess paint on it or I put too little paint/didn't press hard enough when using the squeegy so areas of the image hadn't printed. After a few goes I ended up with some successful results!
I had a go screenprinting onto plates but the image that I had put onto the screen was to big for the middle of the plate so it was hard not to screen print onto the edges of the paper plate. Where as if I did it didn't look very neat or professional. If I was to screen print on to plates in the future I would need to makesure that my image was the correct size into the middle of the plate.
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