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A’Design Award and Competition 2022 — Final Call for Entries — Italy

A’Design Award and Competition is one the world’s largest and most influential design award; extremely prestigious with amazing jury, press recognition and high calibre laureates. It has up to 100 categories and it is for creative of all types with awards ranging from Good Industrial Design Award, Good Architecture Design Award to Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award...

A’Design Award and Competition 2022 — Final Call for Entries — Italy

A’Design Award and Competition is one the world’s largest and most influential design award; extremely prestigious with amazing jury, press recognition and high calibre laureates. It has up to 100 categories and it is for creative of all types with awards ranging from Good Industrial Design Award, Good Architecture Design Award to Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award...

A’Design Award and Competition 2022 — Final Call for Submission — Italy

In a world where there are millions of products and designs launch each year, A’Design Award and Competition was born out of the desire to underline the best designs and well designed products. Submissions are now open in 100+ categories, with popular choices including Interior Space and Exhibition Design; Architecture, Building and Structure Design; Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design;...

Jessica Frascht — Luxembourg

Why do you like screen-printing? “Unlike digital printing, you can use special colours such as neon or metallic inks. Also, you can print on almost all surfaces — paper, cardboard, glass and textiles. Duplication is another big advantage. Once the screen is coated, it can be used many times. The process of preparing, taping and de-coating the screen is probably...

Natalya Balnova — New York, USA

Why do you like silkscreen? “First of all it gives me the ability to freely transfer my ink drawings to the print-making format and preserve the organic nature of the brush lines. The original drawings are done in black ink only, but while I am working on the final files for the silkscreen separations I add extra colours digitally in...

Guayabo — Belo Horizonte, Brazil

What is your favourite speciality in printing production? “We have experimented with engraving, risograph, silkscreen, stencil, typography, sublimation, UV printing, tampography, embossing, foil, die-cut, letterpress, rubber stamping, off-set and digital printing and cannot choose a favourite among them. When we pick a printing method, we consider two main criteria: the visual and material aspects resulting from the selected technique, in...

Puñalada — Santiago, Chile

“My personal challenge is to continue turning screen-printing onto the street, to continue passing that knowledge on to people through workshops or street interventions, re-defining the communicational power of screen-printing and finally achieving large screen-printing on walls. Something like silk-screened murals. It is my big dream.”...

How To Ink — Singapore

Why do you like to make prints the way that you do? “To produce a print, all we have to do is click on the computer, or even a phone. But print-making brings you through a process, from designing it, how you layer the colours, how to align the different layers and choosing and mixing the right colours, etc. To...