Brief 2 // Yoke // Screen printing Invites

Once me and Eve had created the designs for the small insert within the invites, we exposed the screens and then set going on creating the screen prints. We aimed to print around 30 - 40 designs, this would give us enough to include in the invites and some left over which we could use within the exhibition or use as promotional flyers for the exhibition. In the end we printed over 50 designs, which was great as this gave us more choice on which to use for the invites, plus extra designs for flyers etc.

As this brief is a long one and is being carried out over a long period of design, we wanted to document each stage of the process well, so we could collate it all together at the end to present a full study of the brief and be able to document what we have done for it.

For the screen prints we decided on using 4 colours - red yellow, turquoise and fluorescent pink. Even though we only had the four colours we experimented with the colours within the printing process to create as many different designs and colours within these.

We stopped screen printing after we had run out of stock! From this we let them dry then had to cut each design down to size, even though this was a long task, it gave a nice handmade feel to the invites and fits the style that we hope the exhibition will take on from the submitted designs. After cutting out the designs we took some photographs of them to show the results of the invites but also to show how the designs had been mixed together and the results of mixing the inks together. 

Both me and Eve were really pleased with the outcome of the screen prints and it was great to see our work being merged together to create the artwork that was going to be sent it. It also proved to us that the concept of the exhibition - joining two designs together to create a final print, does work and if we do it in the same way as here will be an effective design outcome for the exhibition. It was also good to have some physical work to show from the brief, as up until now it has been a lot of planning and the design work we have done hasn't really been printed.