Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Why do you like silkscreen printing? “It’s the whole process we love. At the very beginning we had to find the right ink and there wasn’t any, so we made our own, totally skin safe. We often work live at public events. You are like an illusionist but one with only one trick! And printing at live events got us...
Hiii Illustration 2021, or The 9th Hiii Illustration International Competition, opens to all illustrators, creative professionals and agencies, teachers and students worldwide, aiming to discover and reward outstanding illustration talents and works from all over the world, in an effort to advance the global development of illustration. After 9 years of accumulation, the Hiii Illustration International Competitions have become one...
Why do you like risograph? “I like it in part because it’s really quirky and obscure. The machines and ink drums are hard to come by and when you do find them, you usually have to do a decent amount of maintenance and trouble-shooting to get and maintain good results. There aren’t a lot of people who specialise in repairing...
World Design Rankings (WDR) ranks all the countries based on the number of designers that have been granted with the A’ Design Award. WDR is to Design what Olymics is to Sports. The idea behind this friendly competition is to inspire innovations and outstanding designs. A’Design Award and Competition is one the world’s largest and most influential design award; extremely...
Why do you like screen-printing? “It is exciting and satisfying to be able to replicate colours that maybe we have only seen on the screen in real life, in a hand-made way. In terms of challenges, the more colours a project has, the longer the whole process will be, along with higher costs. Additionally, the method requires a bigger budget...
“I am very fond of letterpress with ink and foils of any kind, or just with blind embossing/debossing. I like the tactile feedback that a letterpress print gives. The depth of the impression on the right paper enhances the design. Also, the fact that letterpress machines are hundreds of years old and still perfectly and precisely working clashes with today’s...
Why do you like hot-foil stamping? “It is between art and craft, dependent on heat, pressure and paper nature. Just a small difference can cause different results. It is like re-interpreting the work with a new look. The paper itself and the effect of hot-foil stamping are likely to change as a result of the making/manufacturing process, storage environment and...
“For me, using my hands is more magical and opens me up to new adventures by chance compared to using a tablet or computer. My biggest challenge was to print and self-publish an artzine at home on lockdown time. It was a really huge experience to create it from the beginning to the end with a little printing press.”...
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“I love fluorescent colour printing and metallic colour printing, which can be repeatedly over-printed to create different layers and change the vision. Hot foil is also a printing process that I like very much. Changing the size of the dots, the layout of the reprint warp surface is similar to the effect of a progressive layer.”...
Why do you like hand-pulled silkscreen? “I like how it allows us to simply customise almost everything in the combination, using assorted papers, crazy colours, experimenting with ink opacity, printing sequence and imagine all the possibilities out there. As a screen-printer, the challenge is in how we manage our resources for each project as well as dealing with artists and...
“I like the creative freedom I have with posters. The biggest challenge at this stage is to keep the purpose of colours accurately in stationery; some arts with special effects of gradient or a holographic system need to undergo some changes in colours at the time of printing and this can end up taking the essence of the project.”...
