Money Screen Print Research

My initial thoughts were to produce just a two coloured screen print, using a design which can be printed on different coloured stocks so that I have choice once experimenting with colour and stock. I looked at different styles and techniques used by designers and illustrators, looking at there use of white space, shapes, colours and techniques.

This two colour screen print which represents the movie Donnie Darko. It is very abstract and messy but the use of the two colours keeps it simple in a way, I feel another colour would over complicate the matter.

Here is a three colour screen print by Aron Vellekoop Leon a Spanish Graphic Designer and Illustrator. These prints are inspired by infographics and daily life, Leon creates these brilliant screen prints, all inspired by tradition print methods which got him into his field of work.

I find this simple two colour screen print very nice, it has a block colour with white space utilised for the overlaying black, it is a simple yet very strong technique and one I feel I want to use.

This is a Yuri Gagarin screen print, using only one colour onto 19" x 25" French Paper in Red Hot Pop-tone. I like the simplicity of the colour and stock combination, it is simple yet the design is intricate, I would like to create something like this, which would work on a number of different colour stocks.

Jitesh Patel is an illustrator and designer who does not think himself of as a printer, with this being one of the first he produced. The BT tower was one of the views he saw on his commute through the city. The Print is clean and neat, it is a very nice use of white space, with the blue tones to represent the sky and is not underneath the black lines.

This is a two colour screen print produced for music group the Charlatan and there live performance at Leeds Brudenell, it is a two colour screen print by Tommy Davidson. I like how the overlap creates a third colour from the mixture of the two red and blue used.