Screen-printing

Graphic design styles are greatly influenced by the past. Production methods such as silkscreen printing have been revisited and adapted many times since being created. This technique was popularized almost a century ago and since then, has been explored by both designers and artists. Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein both began screen-printing in the 1960s and heavily influenced the popularity of the printing method in both art and design. It has a unique style that also influences modern graphic design. Because designers reflect on the works of earlier artists and designers for inspiration, the influence of screen-printing can still be seen in many places today. Origination and Early American Screen-Printing Simple silk screen methods were…

envisions a single electrifying moment, when man took his first step on the moon, using a technique known as screen printing to capture the dynamic composition of the image. Andy Warhol, a connoisseur of pop art and expressionism, screen painted his Moonwalk only months before his death in the year 1987. It is currently located in the Huntsville Museum of Art, a befitting location as the Huntsville Museum of Art is located near the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. The central theme of the…

As a result, logos and other important information, such as the company name, may not print correctly, they may be cut off or they may be sewn through. When this happens, the company or organization does not get the desired return on investment. That will never be an issue when customers choose to work with us. Lanyards USA uses a precision screen printing method during the production process. This type of lanyard features a raised texture and is appropriate for static text and designs, and…

Keurig Machine fills the air with the strong, soothing smell of hazelnut coffee. Past the waiting area you can four desks, two in one area and two in another. The desks are divided by a wooden wall meant to split the area between the two desks for others privacy. Once members of the credit union sign in they are greeted by bankers to pull them over to their desks to go over whatever it is that they had signed in for. On each desk you can see two monitors, pen holders, and a signature pad. The…

15,000 - 10,000 BC The first known visual communication, with symbols discovered in the Lascaux caves in southern France. These images showed the appreciation the civilization had toward animals. 3600 BC The Blau Monument is the oldest monument known to incorporate both words and pictures. 105 AD Paper is invented by the Chinese government official Ts’ai Lun. 1045 AD Movable type is invented by Pi Sheng, this allowed individual letters to be used in printing work. …

popularity of fonts lead to new computer programs. Companies like Microsoft were developing new things. “ The early 90’s and late 80’s was when Microsoft started bundling fonts with windows systems” ( Laser Printers). The windows system now had all the fonts that were once sold as cartridges, user no longer had to waste money to buy font after font. This also benefited the HP users since they could match what they did on their computer screens to what came out of their printers. They could also…

navigate and control the computer. Since this proposal is for a publishing company I would highly recommend dual wide screen monitors for each work station to increase productivity by allowing employees to have important documents and files to be displayed on two monitors simultaneously. Digging into the peripherals a little deeper, each keyboard and mouse for each work station will connect to the desktop tower by utilizing available USB ports. With graphics being an important part of…

classics be engraved in stone so that the people of China would have a real version of the china confucianism stories. As a result of the engraved texts, Confucian scholars placed black pieces of paper on the engraved sculptures and rub charcoal or graphite on the paper to have white texts against a dark paper and the emperors carved texts in a raised form before applying ink to the engraved letters so that the black texts can appear on the white paper. The techniques that the Confucian scholars…

Printing has been around since about 3000 BCE where the first printing presses were blocks and cylinders. The images were first duplicated on clay blocks, then silk fabrics, and finally paper. Technology has since evolved to the digital printing that we have today. Digital printing involves printing a digital image through a type of medium which include paper. There exist basically two types of digital printing products in the marketplace that are stickers and posters. Sticker printing is the…

For centuries technology and inventions from cars, spaceships, televisions, and cameras to computers have all changed the world dramatically. With all of these inventions comes something bigger and greater and we have all benefited from the inventions. The printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439 is one invention that has changed the world the most. In this paper, I will discuss and defend why the printing press was the most useful invention and still is to this day. I will…