Graphic Thought Facility

Royal College of Art
Prospectus 1998-99

Saatchi Gallery 
I Am A Camera

Graphic Thought Facility

SEA

GF Smith 
Swatches

SEA

SB Studio

National Centre for Craft and Design 
Identity and wayfinding

SB Studio

Browns Editions

The Hen House 
Jonathan Ellery 
Book

 

 Browns Editions

Brief 4 - ISTD - Event catalogue covers

Initial cover design for the proposed Sound Bites event catalogue cover... I would like to print this on gray board, in a copper metallic ink similar to the ink I'm using for the letterpressing plates.

Brief 4 - ISTD - Sound Bites invite update

Here are a few attempts at an entirely different approach to the invitations, which I think works really well. This approach allows for an interesting composition of elements on both sides of the invite, on the readable side, the text is all set in the same size and uses only a bolder weight to separate out important information. The opposing side, using bits font, using this approach, resembles much more lines of code, and I think moves it away from the typographic layouts.
 

These examples look more at colour, which will probably be stock. I want to letterpress these as I think it will make them much more tactile, the copper etching plates are all leading to this process, however I'm not sure about these colours. 

When considering that I'd like to letterpress these invites, I started to think about the colour ways that I could use, taking into account stock, and how they relate to the subject of the brief. Here I have used Metallic Pantones as I felt that these reflected the nature of the 'sound bites' in that they are digitally recorded. When thinking of digital technology the first thing that comes to mind is microchips and so on, where terminals are connected by copper tracks. Also letterpressed copper onto grey stock would look very enticing.

Breif 4 - ISTD - Copper etching instead...

Positives 

Developing

Developing process involves applying a light sensitive film to the copper plate by rolling it under pressure, which is then exposed to UV light with positives placed over. This is then placed in a bath of water and what is essentially washing up liquid which removes the unexposed parts of the image leaving the hardened, exposed image behind. These are then Post hardened by a second exposure so that the film left on the copper is no longer water soluble.

the plates

The plates are then placed in an etching tank where the exposed parts of the copper plate are eaten away leaving the text raised.