These were created and printed a while ago, with the help of Louise Lawlor. They were designed for my sisters wedding, which happened just last week and was a lovely day for all of the family. The design itself is a simple typographic one accented with small hearts to break up the type. Screen printed using two colours, including silver (which is incredibly tricky to screen print) Credit goes to Louise for the photography.
Just recieved a batch of 100 business cards in the post, mmm shiny!
Here are some photos of the prints in the frames! Finally think I’m finished with this project now, phew.
Here are some photos of the finished zines from my Language project, making a limited run of 15 copies, each with a hand rendered charcoal cover that has been left unsealed so as to change as the reader touches it and thus get make each copy unique. There are five different cover designs, and 8 pages, made using cut out words, magic tape and a photo copier, old schooley! If you are interested, I am selling them for £5 each (:
So here are the finished charcoal prints finally, they each have a small caption on about the project which was transferred with acetone, not quite as neat as I’d have liked it but oh well! I am also thinking of selling these in NTU’s run Mint shop which starts after Easter I believe… as well as possibly one locally! Ignore my messy room!
Spent five hours charcoaling with my laser cut stencil yesterday, only another three to go :| Looks very nice though, my first time at using charcoal or laser cutting so I’m really pleased thus far! Am making a zine to go along with it too, which I hope to take back to my area and give a few copies out. I also want to give one or two of the prints to some local businesses.
Today we had a screen printing introduction, crazy as I’m a 3rd year. Such a shame we’ve not had access to this before, or been aware we have because we had great fun making some simple prints using simple paper stencils and luminous green paint! Now myself and Louise Lawlor want to frame this baby, lovely a2 print goodness [=
Will take some nicer photos sometime in better lighting than my dingy bedroom.
Here are some photos from the presentation of the one week, mail art project. We placed all of the parcels, letters etc. on a long table and opened them all together. It was a really great way of unveiling all of the work and got everyone involved and excited.
For my final mail art I decided to type out a receipt to represent the cost of binge drinking. I did this by typing out various alcoholic drinks in the shape of a lifeline. As you unraveled the receipt, there would be areas of flatline to represent illness caused by binge drinking, with the end of the receipt finally flat lining and becoming red to represent the ultimate cost of binge drinking, death. This took a mammoth seven hours but I feel the ultimate result is worth it and poses some interesting ideas for a possible future brief.
This piece of mail art was created to answer the question “Are bankers or politicians more to blame for the present world economic crisis?” I wanted to make my feelings clear on how I felt bankers had handled our money. I decided that the best way was to literally make money worthless, I did this by shredding it. I then disguised it and what looked like a normal letter from the bank which was signed “R.e. your money, yours sincerely, greedy bankers”. I count this as a great success as my tutor physically opened the envelope before hand thinking it was an actual letter from the bank.
