Design boards for 'Design for Print'

Jamie Pudsey

Concept

Design for Print

INFLUENCES

INSPIRATION

Similarly to Pantone colour matching system, you can flip the pages out, which i think would work well with the samples included.

I mind mapped many different ideas for the format of my infopack but Inspiration came from looking at a Festival Lanyard I had lying in my room. I thought that it was a perfect format for my target audience as it something that handily hung around you neck so you’ll never lose it.

Bright colourfull abstract illustrations with direct clear san-serf typeface is the aesthetic I want to achieve with these lanyards.

A different colour for each topic would make the navigating through the lanyards more efficient.

I also looked at the GF Smith box for inspirations, and I realised that it is really useful to include samples on to see how that particular substrate not only looks like after being printed on but also how the texture feels.

I also think amking a series of lanyards would work really well, having a lanyard specific a certain topic of print which means that the viewer can focus on that particular area at a time while they are designing.

B3

B1

B0

B2 B4 B5

B6

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For each of the lanyards I have drawn a few very simple illustrations, to either show the basic instructional steps or to show what that partciualar object looks like.

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Substr ate Printin g Bindin g Finish ing

I have split print into the five different areas which are some of the chapters in ‘PRINT & FINISH’. I seperated them into the different colours Cyan, Magenta, Yellow,Black & Grey/Silver. These colours were chosen so that I screen print the exact colour onto the lanyards without having to worry about colour matching but also to reinstate one of the most important abbreviations in print, CMYK and grey/silver is just an add on.

I have also seperated the ‘chapters’ into two ‘volumes’. The first is ‘Designing’ and these chapters include samples (of printing methods, etc), summary of method/substrate. The second is ‘Producing’, these iclude instructional, step by step graphics on each method.

B7

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ction

Producing: Designing:

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Produ

Design for Print

For writing writing the content of this infobook I used two books to help me; ‘PRINT & FINISH’ and ‘Production for Graphic Desgners’ as secondary research resources. I took snipets of each of these books and changed the wording to suit my audience.

ILLUSTRATIONS

My intended audience for my infopack are the 1st year BAGD students at Leeds College of Art. I chose this small group of people out of ease but also it they is a many things I do not know about print that I learned along the way in this module. Things such as embossing, lasercut and foil blocking I have never done before so the infopack is naturally intended people just starting second year also.

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AREAS OF PRINT

Content

BOOKS

TARGET AUDIENCE

Jamie Pudsey

IDEAS

I played with organising the ‘chapters’ of my lanyard by numbering them in terms of which you start with first. For example production is No.1 as the viewer has to start with producing the design first, then you have to choose the substrate (No.2), then you have to print it (No.3), Bind it (No.4) if you need to and then apply a finish (no.5).

Secondly you need to know how these are done, which is where the ‘Producing’ lanyards come in.

Printing (No.6), Binding (No.7), Finishing(No.8) include step by step instructions.

EXPERIMENTING

Throughout this project i did lots of experimentation with dfferent processes and different substrates, suchas embossing/debossing, foil-blocking, flocking, four types of binding, endpapers, lasercutting, perforating, screen printing, etc.

I also took advantage of the talks from Evolution print & GF Smith and used the I kowledge I learnt into my infopack. I also organised my a visit to footprints printers with some friends to learn about risograph printing.

SAMPLES

Jamie Pudsey

Most of the samples I made didn’t actually fit into the ring of the lanyard with all of the other pages. This is definitely something I knew at the start could possibly a problem but I didn’t test it out enough at the start.

Some of them didn’t fitpurely because of the thickness, for example embossing /debossing makes the best impression on thick card and the thicker the card the less space there is in the lanyard. If I were to do this project again next time i would definitely have to solvesd that issue by either, making more lanyards or narrowing down the subject matter of the infopack.

Design Development

Design for Print

ISSUU DOCUMENTS

Each of the front covers has a abstract illustration of the area of print it represents with clear typography and the number of lanyard. he ISSUU file doesn’t contain the sample included in each of the physical lanyards.

SAMPLE SHEET

I had a plan to put all the se sample stickers on each of the samples and print a list of the sample including a reference to how it was produced and printed (including the finish and bind) and also the name of the substrate along with GSM. However I ran out of time in the end.

FINAL PRODUCTS

Jamie Pudsey

Each page of the lanyards are printed on a 220 GSM plain white stock bought in the Digital print room, they are all laminated however all some of the have been put through the cold press to secure the laminate as the press broke down just before the run up to Christmas. the laminate si their to protect the pages incase some of them have been have been kept loose, the lanyards are also intended to be used in the print rooms in college so they need protecting against the harmful chemicals.

Design Development

Design for Print