Lino Printed Sweet Packaging

This was a mini project that we did leading up to our final major project at college. We had to design a label to go on to bags of sweets. We had a choice of sweets that we could use as our theme but we couldn't drawn the sweet itself- I chose 'crocodiles' as my theme. The end result had to be printed in greyscale and had to include hand lettering for the word 'sweets'. We had the choice of either mono-printing, dry point printing or lino printing and I chose to lino print mine.

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Limited Edition Fox Prints

Here are some limited edition prints that I have made, above are various frame options, I think that I'm going to stick with the black ones. The prints are made using a rubber stamp that I carved by hand.

Illustrative Practices Module

I had my hand in for my illustrative practices module today which was all of my editorial stuff from before Christmas and all of my 'make to sell' stuff that I've been posting recently. Here is an snapshot of my submission on work today. It's a really nice feeling to have handed it in but it's only one of four modules that we're currently working on with a new one starting tomorrow and another new one starting in a couple of weeks time- eeeek, busy busy busy!!

Finished Album Cover

This was the final outcome of my album cover design project. I went with the band 'shark speed' (see top left hand corner of the front cover), the title 'the world is not a cold dead place' and record label 'fly records' (see bottom left hand corner of the back cover). The record label logo is an etching which was the first print process that I used and the second process I used was the laser cutting for the front cover photograph. For the title I designed an 'alive' world- a world with lots of life on it- children, animals, tress etc but then cut it out of very plain white mount board. I then photographed it in a grave yard (you can see the grave stones in the background of the photos) but I photographed it with lots of living flowers in the fore ground. I was going to produce it in colour but in the end decided that black and white worked pretty well. I'm not quite sure what the end outcome is.. is the world a cold dead place? You decide...

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screen printing 'out of context'

Here are some of the printed results from the repeating patterns in the previous post. The module title was 'out of context'~ we had to pick two objects for this project, I picked an i pod and a saw and to fit in with the topic title I printed them onto random every day items. Printing onto 3D items wasn't always easy and some items turned out much better than others~ the plasters are my favourite!


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