Screen printing is a fantastic medium, which often gets over looked nowadays with so much of the creative community often defaulting to digital processes. For smaller scale projects, however, screen printing can provide that authentic hand-crafted and truly tactile character that gives a lot of personality to projects that utilize the medium effectively.
Here are some inspiring screen printed posters done by a couple of contemporary print studios.
This past semester at Parsons I had an assignment in one of my classes to design a concert poster. Let me walk through the whole process from the brief to the final poster, and explain the steps that I took, and the decisions that I made along the way.
The Brief
The band I was going to be designing a concert poster for was the Bristol England based trip-hop group Portishead. The final poster was to be 18” by 24” and include extensive information about the show’s venue, barbes, in Brooklyn NY. The “client” (actually my professor and the rest of my class in this situation) wanted to explore a couple different concept directions that we could then pair down to a final design that felt the strongest, refine that a bit, and get it ready for print.