BY CASPAR WILLIAMSON

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ForewordA Short HistoryScreenprinting in PracticePortfoliosResourcesContact DetailsIndexAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author

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DoublenautToronto, Ontario, Canada

This collection of concert posters was designed by Andrew and Matt McCracken of Doublenaut. The poster designed for the band The National was printed by Jesse Purcell to refl ect the somber and beautiful mood of their album High Violet.

Matt designed The Flaming Lips poster with the idea of creating a fun image to illustrate the overall vibe of the band. It was printed on French Paper’s Speckletone Cream.

The Massive Attack poster was created to promote the band’s shows in Toronto. “The image of the man’s head is meant to represent an island with the ‘M’ and ‘A’ on either side acting as mountains,” explains Matt McCracken. All imagery was drawn in Illustrator and printed in Speedball.

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Kansas City, Missouri, USATad Carpenter

This series of woodprints was created for a show at the Bluebottle Gallery in Seattle, Washington, USA. Carpenter drafted all the images by hand and then redrew them on the computer, separating out the print to have fi lms and screens made. “I had to cut wood to print on into sheets of 11 × 17in (c. 28 × 43cm), as that is the size that fi ts on the T-shirt press I used to print them,” he explains.

All the prints were printed at Vahalla Studios, the silkscreen studio that Tad co-runs.

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Market Lavington, England, UKRobin & Mould

Amy Robinson and Christian Mould designed the Sleepy Owl cushion as a companion piece for their Sleepy Dog. Inspired by mid-twentieth-century illustration and Scandinavian design, the images were sketched by hand before being reworked in Illustrator and printed onto acetate, ready to expose the screens. The designs were printed onto a natural linen-cotton blend, which was cut to size, using Permaset Aqua water-based inks. The felt feet and wings were all cut by hand and sewn into the cushion, which was then stu� ed and fi nished by hand.

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Yorklyn, Delaware, USAHouse Industries

Andy Cruz is a designer with House Industries, and the wooden fi sh shown here were designed in conjunction with his lecture tour of Japan. Each koi was cut on a band saw, sanded, stained with furniture-grade lacquer, then screen-printed with a mix of fl at and metallic inks in House Industries’ Grand Rapids studio. The printed patterns were built with typographic elements derived from House Industries and Photo-Lettering fonts. Century-old reclaimed pine and other soft- and hardwoods were used to create the koi.

The Alexander Girard Nativity set was based on an illustration that House Industries’ researchers found in the spare bedroom of Alexander’s son’s house. (Alexander Girard was an infl uential designer in post-war America, best known for his textile designs.) Each of the 13 pieces was handprinted onto solid maple, with child-safe nontoxic inks. The stable was manufactured from replenishable, Michigan-grown basswood. An ambitious and complicated project on every level, the Nativity requires over 70 individual screen pulls.

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