Tuesday, 1 October 2013

OUGD504 - What is Design for Print? (Studio Session 1)

Studio session 1/10/13
In our summer brief groups we had to answer the question 'what is design for print' and try sum it up in one sentence. We began by making a list of everything that needed to be considered when designing for print.
  • Something physical
  • Mass production
  • Physical processes
  • Scale
  • Relevance of context - situation
  • CMYK
  • Production processes - process informs he design
  • Communication
  • Stock/material - Considerations of what you're printing onto
  • Technicalities - registration marks etc
From this we started to bring them together to write a summative statement.
External information/transferred onto a specific surface with the consideration of scale, purpose, process & situation.
 After a discussion as a group and a class it was a unanimous decision that designing for print could not be summed up into one single sentence.
  • Designing for print - the information is finite - can not be changed/retracted once printed.
  • Designing for web - information is dynamic - can be changed & updated.
Categories
  • Format
  • Colour
  • Production
  • Process
  • Finishing
  • Stock
Identifying Processes of printing
  • Screen printing
  • Spot varnishing
  • Foiling
  • Embossing
  • Etching
  • Laser printing/digital printing
  • 3D print
  • 4D printing
  • Collograph
  • Risograph
  • Metal type press/Letter press
  • Block printing
  • Lino cutting
  • Lithograph
  • Vinyl cutting
  • Mono printing
  • Laser cutting
What processes do I want to work on this year?
  • Digital printing, screen printing, laser cutting
For each of the categories find 2 examples
Format
BVD for IKEA - packaging
Link
Dave Sedgewick for BBC Philharmonic - leaflet

Processes
KOMBOH for Feist/Sled Island - Screen printing. Metallic silver on black
Link
Bravo Company for Junpiter Futbol - Printed & Embossed

Colour
Dave Sedgewick for BBC Philharmonic - Full colour printing
Neo Neo for Vietnamese New Year In Geneva - One colour printing

Production
Fanakalo for Porseleinberg - Mass Production
Link
Frederico Landini for Hoxton Window Project - One off design

Stock
Pentagram for Shake Shack - recyclable paper
Link
Ryan Atkinson for HypeForType - Newspaper

Finishing
Bia van Deventer for Manouche - Spot Varnish
Link
Graham Robson - Japanese Binding

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