Where national feelings end up in the UK

Creating an impression of my idea

My plan is to take the letterforms from Edward Johnston's blackboards and turn them into letter shaped blackboards that will promote the collection and subsequently the photographs themselves.

Today was spent preparing impressions of how that will appear in situ.

Edward Johnston's blackboard photographs

I was very happy when I was assigned this item for my first brief for unit 7 'use'. According to the brief we are each assigned a design related object from our university's archived collection. We are expected to produce a promotional piece for both the object and the collection. My assigned item is a set of photographs of Edward Johnstone’s teaching blackboards (c.1920s).

For those who don't know, Johnston used to teach calligraphy at the Central school (now CSM) and was, amongst other things, responsible for this rather well known design.

the box and photographs

  

some of the blackboard photographs

and some photos from the archive

   

And now, I have a presentable set of business cards.

Here they are:

my business cards!

on film

back printed

making sure the registration checks out

And the pile of duds (sadly about 65% of the lot)
better luck next time!!!

Worker missing (builders' glove)

Business card saga continues

I am having a decidedly crap day.

Besides missing my stop and then making another mistake on the way to Byam Shaw which cost me 45min this morning, it turned out my stencil was of a poor quality.

short exposure time meant that lots of scrapes and gashes were picked up by the emulsion 

I did get to print (a positive in my gloomy day)

black came out poor

white came out only a little better

as if to taunt me - the newsprint i used for cleaning came out rather nicely

Preparing to screen print my cards

After a few failed attempts to digitally print my card I am now planning to screen print them on cardboard myself.