Print

After a proper briefing and a quick look into the photography in TANK magazine, i have decided to leave photography alone and that to help me in becoming the designer i want to concentrate on using PRINT to the best of my ability. But i've seen photographs printed traditionally which look amazing and so this is worth looking at...

I'm also interested in the idea of Textile printing, although i do have no idea where to start on this.

'Printing is a process for reproducing text and imag

e, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.' Wikipedia.

Im going to explore printing and how its progressed historically...Throughout this brief i will also research the ideas behind prints communication, how it's developed, how important it is to me as a designer, where it's going in the future and what impact this is going to have on society.

Throughout the brief i will research my relationship to other technology as well, this will mainly be in the form of one day projects and tutorials in CS3 programmes.

I will be focusing more on illustrative print rather than a more graphical approach, meaning that i will probably look more into screen printing, mono-printing and etching. However i would like to have a go at woodblock and letterpress to gain a better understanding of it and see if it would be appropriate for me to use in any of my work.

From what i gather the earliest dated printed book known is the 'Diamo

nd Sutra', printed in China in 868 CE. However it is suspected that book printing may have occurred long before this date.

Johannes Gutenberg...

...was a German craftsman and inventor. Gutenberg is best known for the Gutenberg press, an innovative printing press machine that used movable type. It remained the standard until the 20th century. Gutenberg made printing cheap. This is still one of it's main attractions today, how cheap it is, compared to that of digital printing.

Before Gutenberg, printing was limited in the number of editions made and nearly exclusivelt decorative, used for pictures and designs. The material to be printed was carved into wood, stone and metal, rolled with ink or paint and transferred by pressure to parchment or vellum. Books were hand copied mostly by members of religious orders.

I will investigate this futher throughout the brief... but here are some interesting screen printed images, which are in some way what i want to produce, not as pillows at this sage though.