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Some favourite art and design sites
Saturday, 20 Sep, 2008 – 9:56 | One Comment
Some favourite art and design sites

We`re all looking for inspiration. This is a small collection of some of our frequented haunts when things have run a little dry.
Design by Humans.
Slaterock

This is set up as a T shirt market place. …

Halftone Dots and Screenprinting
Monday, 15 Sep, 2008 – 17:36 | 9 Comments
Halftone Dots and Screenprinting

A user guide to picking the best halftones
by David Foster. Positivity Ltd.

Screenprinters have a bewildering array of halftone dots to choose from when producing their imagesetter films, we look at why you might like to …

Design and typography for screen printing
Wednesday, 10 Sep, 2008 – 9:50 | One Comment
Design and typography for screen printing

For the use of screen printing, it’s a general rule that – design wise – boldness and simplicity work. You’re usually trying to convey a message quickly and clearly on your T shirt.
The same goes …

5 colour index separation and waterbased ink
Sunday, 7 Sep, 2008 – 18:57 | 3 Comments
5 colour index separation and waterbased ink

Although indexing is not recommended for a subtle gradient, it does eliminate the problem of moire

Index Separation Method for Screen Printing
Monday, 25 Aug, 2008 – 20:02 | 18 Comments
Index Separation Method for Screen Printing

There are several ways of achieving this, including transfer printing and direct to garment (DTG) printing. The most commonly used techniques for screen printing however, are index and simulated process. The following is an insight into index separations.

We have taken this photo of a handsome rooster and opened it in Adobe Photoshop.

Zest series introduce more designs
Wednesday, 20 Aug, 2008 – 16:54 | One Comment
Zest series introduce more designs

Zest series of St Ives Cornwall introduce new designs to the range

Designing for Screen printing and bling trainers
Tuesday, 19 Aug, 2008 – 20:19 | 2 Comments
Designing for Screen printing and bling trainers

We are so used to designing for screen print now, solid images two and three colour, it seems so ingrained in our way of approaching T shirt graphics, a very effective visual language has been …

Silk Screen Stencils
Sunday, 27 Jul, 2008 – 21:27 | 3 Comments
Silk Screen Stencils

Good stencils are key to screen printing, getting all the variables correct for each T shirt printing job is essential. With plastisol inks it has always been about finer mesh counts, T shirt printing using …

Coarse screens and half tones
Thursday, 19 Jun, 2008 – 0:18 | 8 Comments
Coarse screens and half tones

It is pretty standard practice in screen printing to use very fine screens where a half tone is required, but unfortunately fine screens and water based inks do not work well together. So what do …

Students T shirts
Thursday, 22 May, 2008 – 17:26 | One Comment
Students T shirts

As ever students leave you with very tight deadlines, the final big day for many students is here, and most will still be working on their projects with seconds left on the clock. We are …